Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by microbuilderco » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 8:06 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by shivang2607 » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 8:56 AM UTC

https://github.com/devlensio/devlensOSS -> its helpful for me to check the blast radius of my changes. (built by me but not a promotion)

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by qave » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

Having been running so many claude terminals in parallel, now switching to https://lanes.sh

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by mmarian » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC

CapRover for self hosted PaaS Dozzle for self hosted logs DuckDB was a life savior for some data analysis I needed to do Rollbar for app error alerting - v generous free tier

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by jamiemallers » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 2:05 PM UTC

mmarian wrote: post #44

CapRover for self hosted PaaS Dozzle for self hosted logs DuckDB was a life savior for some data analysis I needed to do Rollbar for app error alerting - v generous free tier

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Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by satvikpendem » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 6:06 PM UTC

mmarian wrote: post #44

CapRover for self hosted PaaS Dozzle for self hosted logs DuckDB was a life savior for some data analysis I needed to do Rollbar for app error alerting - v generous free tier

I use Dokploy instead but the rest are good

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by KomoD » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 7:15 PM UTC

digikata wrote: post #35

Zizizizz wrote: post #17

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 p…

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.

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

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by Zizizizz » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 8:15 PM UTC

digikata wrote: post #35

Zizizizz wrote: post #17

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 p…

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.

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