awesome tools

Miscellaneous application and utilities that will make your developer life easier.

Math & Stats, Sciences

• Maps

  • Leaflet
  • Mapbox
  • Cesium
  • Kepler

• Graphical presentation

  • crossfilter
  • dcjs
  • d3

• And numerous python packages

  • Vega-Altair

Geospatial

• Tools

  • QGis

• Geo-processing

  • Turf (there are JS (comprehensive) and Python (subset) versions)
  • GeoJSON (or rather geoyaml, less quotes and ',' seperators!)
  • geo_interface

• Display

  • Cartes
  • Pretty maps

Aviation, aeronautics

• Simulators, data faker

  • X-Plane, and some of its tools like Little Navmap or LiveTraffic
  • BlueSky

• Analysis

  • Traffic

• ADS-B, ADS-C

  • dump1090
  • Opensky Network
  • ADSBExchange
  • Flightradar, Flight aware (too €€€)

• Others

  • METAR, TAF
  • metview

Development (Mostly Python and JS, and unix shells scripts. Of course.)

I try to stay away from "compiled" languages, and strong typed languages. I favor python, JavaScript, with tools to check code

• Editors

  • Sublime Text and selected add-on packages
  • Jupyter Labs and numerous python packages

• JavaScript

  • rollup.js

• Python

  • Black
  • Mypy

Documentation, presentation, brainstorming, notes, jotting

• Editors
  • Mindnotes (MacOS app)
  • Obsidian and some plugins
  • Draw.io
  • Reveal.js
  • Mermaid
  • Excalidraw

Design Patterns

I extensively use the following design patterns (more or less strickly, but with inspiration):

• Convention over configuration
• Dependency Injection

I discovered the first one years ago while developing with Ruby on Rails.

I discovered the latest while extensively developing withing the outstanding Yii2 framework.