Photo by on Christian Perner Unsplash 1. StarCLI This head honcho is a wonderful source for finding new cool things people are building every day. Discover trending Github projects, filter by language, time (day, week, month), topic, and more. Function: 2. Deep Daze This command-line tool zooms you into the future : Generate images from text. Function It uses OpenAI’s CLIP image re-ranking model and Siren. While it is not as impressive as OpenAI’s , it can be fun to play with. DALL-E Often times you get the or of what you want rather than a precise version of it. impression essence After you install it with: pip install deep-daze All you have to do is: imagine "a potato dreaming on the beach" And you can get even better results with: imagine "a potato dreaming on the beach" --deeper If you’ve got more power, you can increase layers for better results: imagine "stranger in strange lands" --num-layers 32 Limitations: This one can be slow depending on how powerful your computer is. Currently there are several projects trying to replicate DALL-E, here’s . another one 3. Rebound Fetch Stack Overflow results whenever an exception is thrown. Function: Limitations: Python only 4. Exa A modern alternative to ls. List files in a beautiful way: Function: 5. Peco : Simple interactive filtration/search tool for the command line. Function If like me you’ve ever been frustrated that the command line does have some sort of auto-complete or fuzzy match, Peco is the answer. not Highlight differences in code Function: As the creator Jeff points out, your terminal can display color but a lot of diff tools don’t use it. icdiff highlights those differences. Limitations: only available on Mac/Linux. 7. ack With ack, you can search a directory of source code files for text inside the code, from inside the terminal, and get pretty formatted code segments in your terminal. Function: It’s: 1. Conveniently easy 2. Fast Instead of typing: $ grep pattern $(find . -type f | grep -v '\.git') You can type: $ ack pattern Here’s from Cameron Pope on why you should use it. a lightning talk You can install it . here 8. Theme.sh Interactive theme selection for the terminal. Function: 9. Pyp Run Python commands in the shell. Function: This can be handy if you want to do something quick in the terminal that integrates Python. For example, here’s a line that gets the file formats in a directory and sorts them by most common: ls | pyp ‘Path(x).suffix’ | pyp ‘Counter([line for line in lines if line != “”]).most_common()’ Result: (‘.wav’, 9) (‘.py’, 4) (‘.mp3’, 1) (‘.zip’, 1) Resources All the choices above in a glance: StarCLI Deep daze Rebound Exa Peco icdiff ack Theme.sh Pyp

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