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The Developer's Toolbelt: Editors, CLIs, and Everyday Essentials

Battle-tested tools and references that working developers reach for every day, from the editor you code in to the terminal tricks that save hours.

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Created by Sanjeet Pal Singh
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Ranked by the curator, with their reason for including each one.

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vscodeTypeScript
New191K GitHub starsMIT
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: The open-source editor that became the default workspace for a huge share of developers, with an extension ecosystem that reaches into nearly every language and workflow.
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claude-codePython
New144.3K GitHub stars
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: An agentic coding assistant that lives in the terminal, reads your codebase, and handles routine tasks and git workflows through natural language.
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gitignoregit
New175.6K GitHub starsCC0-1.0
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: GitHub's own canonical collection of .gitignore templates, quietly saving every new repository from committing build artifacts and secrets.
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the-art-of-command-linebash
New162.3K GitHub stars
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: A dense one-page master class in shell fluency that turns the terminal from a chore into a superpower.
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yt-dlpPython
New189.4K GitHub starsUnlicense
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: A superbly engineered command-line downloader whose extractor architecture and release discipline make it a model of how to maintain a CLI at scale.
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build-your-own-xMarkdown
New545.6K GitHub stars
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: Step-by-step guides for rebuilding databases, compilers, containers and more from scratch, the best way to truly understand the tools you use daily.
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skillsPython
New174.9K GitHub stars
Why Sanjeet Pal Singh included it: Anthropic's reference implementation of Agent Skills, showing how to package reusable instructions and scripts that extend coding agents in a repeatable way.