Resources

A short list of CLI tools that pull their weight when you’re working with the stack day to day. Reading and communities live on the Before you build page, since they belong with the mindset rather than the toolbox.

Command-line tools

• lazydocker. TUI dashboard for Docker. Faster than docker ps, docker logs, and docker stats in three separate tabs. Reach for it whenever something in the compose stack is misbehaving.
• lazygit. Same author, same shape, for git. Staging hunks, browsing history, and resolving conflicts without typing git.
• 1Password CLI (op). What the deployment docs assume. Keeps secrets in 1Password and injects them at deploy time, so no plaintext credential lives on your disk or in the repo for long.
• gh CLI. Used throughout the docs for PRs, runs, releases, and reading CI status without leaving the terminal.
• ripgrep (rg) and fd. Faster grep and find. First thing to install on a fresh machine.
• jq. JSON wrangling on the command line. Useful for poking the API in dev.
• pgcli. Autocompleting Postgres REPL. Replaces psql for nearly everything you’d do interactively.

Related BoringStack pages

• Before you build, the mindset, reading, and communities that pair with the engineering.
• Spec loop, the spec-driven workflow for working with agents.