DEV Community

5 tools no developer needs

Kai Oswald on August 20, 2020

A satirical approach to tools that exist, but no developer actually needs. 1: Power Mode Unleash your true developer power with power m...
Collapse
 
jouo profile image
Jashua

5 tools no developer needs
1: Power Mode

That's where you're wrong kiddo (☞⌐■_■)☞

Collapse
 
elmuerte profile image
Michiel Hendriks

Power Mode and the VS Code Slack Theme is the only way to use that tool.

Collapse
 
jem profile image
Jem

But, for real, I love the rockets.

Collapse
 
madza profile image
Madza

Someone should make a VS Code extension that opens up 8h SpaceX Falcon9 Livestream on git push 🚀🚀🚀

Collapse
 
0916dhkim profile image
Danny Kim

And splashdown on git pull

Collapse
 
scroung720 profile image
scroung720

The Christopher Nolan modal was the best thing.

Collapse
 
33nano profile image
Manyong'oments

This is actually cool 👍🏽

Collapse
 
phantas0s profile image
Matthieu Cneude

This is beautiful. Thanks.

Collapse
 
kamo profile image
KAIDI

Thanks fot sharing these gems

Collapse
 
weakish profile image
Jang Rush

Had a lot of fun reading this! I'd like to translate it to Chinese (and publish the translated text at nextfe.com). Can you give me the permission to do so?

Collapse
 
kaos profile image
Kai Oswald

Sure, if you link back to this article :)

Collapse
 
weakish profile image
Jang Rush

Chinese translation published: nextfe.com/5-tools-no-developers-n... There is a backlink at the beginning of the translated text.

Collapse
 
aminmansuri profile image
hidden_dude

I dunno man.. these seem pretty essential to me.

Collapse
 
dalepres profile image
dalepres • Edited

Haha... and add this article to the article on 5 Articles No Developer Needs to Read... :)

Collapse
 
rabin016 profile image
Rabin Chakraborty

I need No. 1 like "ora ora ora, muda muda muda" jojo style.
No. 5 with full screen launcher

Collapse
 
mislavcimpersak profile image
Mislav Cimperšak

Awesome tools!

I maintain a list of usefull projects like this :D I just might add some of these tools to it 🤔

Feel free to check it out: github.com/mislavcimpersak/awesome... 🌟

Collapse
 
arikaturika profile image
Arika O

I laughed way too much at this. Do you even write code if you're not using Power Mode?

Collapse
 
cray2015 profile image
cray2015

I laughed so hard!!!!

Collapse
 
mdev88 profile image
Martín Vukovic

Actually I use Nyan Progress bar for accessibility reasons XD

youtu.be/gK5GdDvPuy4?t=6

Collapse
 
henrycook profile image
Henry Cook

I miss Clippy though.

Collapse
 
nashpl profile image
Krzysztof Buczynski

This is perfect Post for Friday

Collapse
 
alexantra profile image
Alex Antra

This was a hoot to read, end to end.

Collapse
 
delta456 profile image
Swastik Baranwal

Amazing lol!