| * pass, the standard unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/. Instead of stopping whatever I'm doing, thinking about what password I used last time something forced me to rotate, pass saves the day! * AwesomeWM, https://awesomewm.org/. Maybe not a program per se, anyway using easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking through a gui probably saved me a few minutes here and there. * Gentoo Portage, The Gentoo package manager. Yea, something that compiles packages from scratch may not sound like your typical time-saver, however, back when I had to track down every dependency and compile it myself just to get whatever package working that wasn't in the current distribution package tree, this saved me a lot of time. - This of course goes for every package manager, however back then(tm) portage had the most current releases and a lot of packages not in apt, rpm, etc. * tmux (and tmux-cssh), https://github.com/zinic/tmux-cssh/ synchronize ssh sessions, like clusterssh, not very elegant but this saved me more than once, fast synchronized change on multiple machines at once \o/ * Ansible https://ansible.com/ Make tedious boring tasks less so, specify stuff in yaml once, execute and forget about them. |
And for Ansible, I absolutely like sovereign[2] saved me a lot of time while setting up my home servers.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/a900p7/awesome_me...
[2]: https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign