Let’s talk CLI/TUI and Developer Workflows!
I’m looking to refresh my local toolkit and I’m curious: what are the absolute “must-have” CLI or TUI programs in your current rotation?
Whether it’s a specialized utility for a specific language, a terminal-based interface for a common service, or a workflow-changing alias, I want to hear about it. I’m especially interested in tools that prioritize keyboard-driven navigation and accessibility.
My Current Favorites:
To get the ball rolling, here are a few tools I’ve been leaning on lately:
- uv — Fast, reliable Python package and project management.
- fzf & ripgrep — The classic duo for fuzzy finding and searching.
- tmux — For session management and persistent terminal workspaces.
- jq / yq — Essential for wrangling JSON and YAML without leaving the prompt.
What about you?
- What is one tool you’ve discovered recently that you can’t live without?
- Are there any TUI-based clients for web services (like Mastodon, GitHub, or RSS) that you recommend?
- Do you have a favorite “hidden gem” script or small utility?
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@RareBird15 @programming @linux @selfhosted I have been playing with mise to manage all my cli tooling. It starts (for me) by being a better version of Volta for node, doing automatic node version switching whenever you try and run node in a configured project. Except it can also be configured to read configs for other node version managers like nvm, and to act like corepack to use the right npm or yarn version configured in package.json. It does that for other languages, and other tools too!