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The search engine we use so much we say it as a verb.

Help for all things Microsoft.

Server Fault is a question-and-answer site for system and network administrators.

Troubleshooting tools and forums for IT professionals.

The Defacto Standard for programming, IT, and data science problem solving.

A powerful remote access manager for RDP, VNC, SSH, telnet, etc.

macOS Terminal replacement

iTerm2 is a feature-rich replacement for the built-in macOS terminal.

A collection of small, useful IT utilities.

A mature, reliable remote shell client (SSH, telnet, serial).

Excellent bootable USB drive creator.

Troubleshooting tools and forums for IT professionals.

Still so valuable after all these years.

A longtime favourite pack of indispensable Windows utilities from Microsoft.

Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine backup, replication, and restoration software.

Potentially the best VM backup solution on the market.

Free for 10 workloads (backup/replication jobs).

The quintessential packet sniffer application.

A powerful (S)FTP client from the makers of Xshell

Using Xshell and XFTP together allows you to share connection credentials between them, making them a good pair.

A powerful SSH client with tree-format organization

If you have a lot of servers to connect to, opening PuTTY over and over and scrolling through your list of servers is probably a nuisance. Xshell (free for home/personal use) is a great alternative with the ability to organize your connections into folders. You can even assign parameters to folders that each connection under it will inherit.

A Front End Developer from Canada who shares programming goodness with the community

Samantha Ming's website features digestible tidbits for learning JavaScript features, best practices, and valuable tricks. Posts are presented in a fun and conversational manner and include cheatsheets for key points.

Front end developer blog featuring JavaScript and WordPress

The search engine we use so much we say it as a verb.

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial: How it's done now. From the basics to advanced topics with simple, but detailed explanations.

The documentation for the indispensable jQuery JavaScript library.

Help for all things Microsoft.

Mozilla's extensive web technology documentation. Unlike w3schools, this documentation better keeps up to date with modern standards.

The Defacto Standard for programming, IT, and data science problem solving.

My favourite lightweight code editor.

The free version of Microsoft Visual Studio, for personal/education use

Visual Studio has come a long way, making it a great modern IDE for C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, and more.

Microsoft's vscode built without Microsoft's proprietary license and telemetry/tracking code.

Binary builds: Releases · VSCodium/vscodium (github.com)