A curated list of all of the development tools that I like. Pull requests accepted if I like them.

• Atom - my weapon of choice when it comes to editing text files.
• Choose A License - handy resource on OSS licenses by GitHub.
• Emoji cheat sheet - because every commit message should include a 🐼
• f.lux - prevents eyestrain
• Focus - an app to block distracting websites. Nice design.
• Homebrew - OSX package management

• Adobe Edge Fonts - large free font library with Typekit as the backend
• Adobe Kuler - nice color palatte library
• AngularJS - frontend data-binding framework (basically witchcraft)
• Beautiful Web Type - the best Google web fonts, plus ideas for heading/body combos
• Brace Forms - HTML forms -> email with no server-side code (see also: squaresend)
• CodeKit - asset compilation for less/sass/coffescript/etc.
• Color Relationship Function Generator Thing - give it two colors, it give you a SASS function to generate one from the other.
• Dictionary Domains - find dictionary word domains on less-common TLDs
• Eloquent Javascript - one of the best and most comprehensive introductions to Javascript out there
• Google Web Fonts - similar to the above, but doesn't require JS and is a Google thing instead of Adobe
• Holder.js - placeholder images with no remote dependencies
• HTML5 UP - static site templates that are free and good
• IcoMoon - customizable icon fonts
• JustGage - nice JS gage library
• Moment.js - comprehensive date formatting/manipulation/query library
• SASS Color Function Visualizer - play with SASS color functions in realtime
• Simpsum - really nice Lorem Ipsum interface
• SpinKit - nice CSS3 loading spinners
• SquareSend - feedback forms to email with no server side code
• Subtle Patterns - tiled retina-ready patterns for design project backgrounds. Related: subtlepatterns bookmarklet.
• SweetAlert - super nice looking responsive replacement for native JS alert
• Unsplash - free high quality stock photos, no attribution required

• ngrok - tunnel local development servers to a public url ¹
• rbenv, ruby-build, & rbenv-gem-rehash - minimal alternative to RVM for ruby version management
• ruby did_you_mean gem - help with NoMethodErrors
• shotgun - auto-reloading server for Ruby development
• squeel - nice query DSL so that you don't ever have to deal with SQL when using ActiveRecord
• VagrantPress - Wordpress development in a Vagrant instance, so you don't have to muck around with MAMP

• Dokku - awesome do-it-yourself hosted PaaS using Heroku buildpacks
• Heroku - awesome PaaS.
• PagodaBox - because trying to do Wordpress on buildpack PaaS providers is annoying ²
• Scout Realtime - beautifully executed open-source server monitoring in the browser.

• @qrohlf does dotfiles - my personal collection of useful bash functions and aliases
• AutoJump - get to the directory you want to work in insanely fast
• git-extras - fancy git bash completion
• homebrew bash-completion2 - nice bash completion, integrated with Homebrew (note: requires bash 4)
• hub - extends git with GitHub powers
• sexy-bash-prompt - colorful git-enabled custom bash prompt

• DevDocs - online documentation browser for web development languages and frameworks.
• OmniRef - awesome online Ruby documentation browser. Includes EVERYTHING.

¹ The original tool I used for this is localtunnel, which is simpler and unfortunately now defunct. The ngrok request introspection is a nice touch, though.

² This is likely due to the fact that Wordpress itself is annoying.