WSL
Modern CLI Apps
- ripgrep- a faster clone of UNIX
grep
- ripgrep-all (aka
rga) - same as ripgrep but could also search through pdf, doc-s etc.
- tealdeer (Rust version of tldr client) - helps with quickly viewing manuals and cheat sheets
- psutils for PowerShell - makes PowerShell suck less and more compliant with UNIX-style shell syntax
- normcap - snipping tool that can OCR any picture containing text into actual text
- pix2tex - same as mathpix but 🪄✨ opensource aka “normcap for LaTeX”
- erdtree - modern
tree alternative in 🦀 (also see broot) - scoop install erdtree
things I want to check this out but I don’t have enough time
- OCR my PDF - looks convenient to have a method to turn PDF to searchable PDFs using tesseract; quite popular - 8k ⭐ on gh
- PDF2SearchablePDF - looks like some nifty script to automate pdf OCRing; not so popular - 100 ⭐ on gh
Python set up
- DO NOT use MS Store 🛍️ python, and DO NOT forget to DISABLE Windows app aliases for
python and python3
pyenv-win for Python interpreter distributions managerspdm as main package manager