Tools and methods

Culture

• technology intelligence (RSS)

• books

• free and open-source software

Systems

Operating systems:

Web servers:

Debian, CentOS

Desktop:

Debian

Virtualization:

VirtualBox, Packer

Interfaces:

shell, Unix commands + GNU Core Utilities

Project management

Development:

• versioning: git + stgit

• code formatters, linters

• logging

• collaborative forges (issues, pull-requests), including Gitea

Documentation:

• reStructuredText + Sphinx + rinohtype; also AsciiDoc, Markdown

• diagrams (including UML, graphviz)

Instrumentalisation:

Makefile (GNU make)

Local development:

Vagrant, Docker, Bash and/or Ansible

Programming

Paradigms:

procedural, object-oriented, declarative, functional

Languages:

Python, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, Bash

Tools:

• design patterns

• templates engine, ORM

Web

Dev. tools:

• ReSTful

• backend web frameworks

• DDEV

Client:

• HTML + CSS + Bootstrap, Sass

• underscore.js / lodash

Server:

Apache httpd, MariaDB

CMS:

dynamic:

Drupal + drush, WordPress + wp-cli, Nextcloud

static generators:

Pelican, Nikola

Hosters & related:

Gandi, OVH Cloud, AlwaysData, o2switch, Hetzner

Others:

WebScraping:

Scrapy + PhantomJS

Mirroring:

wget

Text formats

Languages:

CSV, XML, JSON, YAML

Tools:

csvkit, jq, yq, XPath

Office

Word processing:

LibreOffice

Spreadsheet:

LibreOffice

Financial-accounting:

GNU Cash

Images:

GIMP, Inkscape, draw.io