Someone's always gonna have an alternative to the tools you build, and sometimes, they're just gonna be flat-out better than the originals.

I tend to use DigitalOcean for a lot of my personal tech projects. And though their console is super-handy, there are certain post-provisioning steps I typically perform on new Droplets.

I figured I'd do a quick listicle of all my favourite command-line utilities, for no other reason than to simply document it and share with people who might be looking for a way to spruce up their console.

I've gone through a few notetaking apps in my time, And as per my Ten Tech Commandments, I like things that have Markdown support. So recently I set about finding a note taking app that fit my needs. Eventually, I settled on Joplin. An open source app by a developer named Laurent Cozic.