[Zizizizz]

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r)

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (nice coloured cat replacement)

https://github.com/abiosoft/colima (so I don't need docker desktop)

https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb (performant database that lets you directly query JSON, parquet, csv files with SQL queries and convert one to the other.

https://github.com/eradman/entr (rerun commands automatically when provided files change) (useful for rerunning test commands automatically once you save the file you're editing.

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj and https://github.com/idursun/jjui (Jujutsu VCS, been using it for three months and I really enjoy it)

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker (managing containers, images, volumes easily)

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit (best tui for git and outside niche git commands, the fastest way to use git.)

https://github.com/jdx/mise (fast asdf, direnv, and task runner replacement) (install pretty much version of tool, language, env vars in a per directory level. (Or global if you want))

https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide (intelligent cd to move between directories incredibly quickly)

[digikata]

You might be interested in:

https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust)

https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec - rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust)

https://github.com/jonas/tig - instead of lazygit, mostly for easier git log viewing for me as I use straight git most of the time

Otherwise a lot of crossover in what I use too.

[Zizizizz]

I tried tig first, I think Lazygit is the ideal interface to me for it. I actually don't use it apart from tags now though as I switched to jj and jjui for 2026. I think everyone has their own tool that works for them so it's hard to go wrong with a lot of these tools

[KomoD]

"feels lighter"? is it or is it not lighter?

[digikata]

Last I checked, and things might have changed, atuin runs a full posgresql database to store and sync the history, while mcfly is lighter, it also has a narrower feature scope.

[ellieh]

So Atuin actually runs postgresql on the server only - the part that handles sync for many users

On the client, it uses sqlite. As of recently, it also keeps an in-memory Nucleo index to make fuzzy searching much faster

[dhruv3006]

Add https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden ( api client with reusable blocks to your list )