- Pelican is a Python-powered static web site generator. You can design the look / layout of your site using CSS and Jinja2 templates, and write your content in reStructuredText, Markdown, or AsciiDoc formats. Pelican compiles the contents into HTML output suitable for the blog.
- TiddlyWiki is a versatile note-taking (aka personal wiki) web application you can download for free, store wherever you like, customise however you wish, and use to take / organise / share your notes in ways that word processors and other note-taking tools cannot. TiddlyWiki is designed to be non-linear, structuring content with stories, tags, hyperlinks, and other features.
- IPython Notebook is a web-based interactive computational environment where you can combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots and rich media into a single document. These notebooks are normal files that can be shared with colleagues, converted to other formats such as HTML or PDF, etc.
- Jinja is a modern and designer friendly templating language for Python. The Jinja template engine has Python-like expressions and allows customization of tags, filters, tests, and globals.
- Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language. Its high-level built in data structures, many modules and package, combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together.
- Node.js is a cross-platform runtime environment for server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime. Node.js applications are designed to maximize throughput and efficiency, using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous events.
- Markdown is a web-writing language giving you a easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, that converts to structurally HTML. At its core, Markdown is a super simple way to add formatting like headers, bold, bulleted lists, and so on to plain text.
- Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full version tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
- GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. Also, public webpages are freely hosted and easily published through GitHub. You can manage your site’s content locally on your PC and use GitHub's tools and workflow for posting.
- GitHub Pages are public webpages freely hosted and easily published. You can create and publish them online using the Automatic Page Generator, or like I do for this site, it's straightforward to manually create it on your local computer and publish the web site using Git, Github, and Github Pages.
- Gist is a simple way to share snippets of code with others. All gists are Git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable from Git.
- HTML5 (HyperText Markup Language, version 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and, as of December 2012, is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to documents written in a markup language, such as HTML.
- Bootstrap is an open-source web development framework suitable for PCs and mobile. It is a combination of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript code designed to help build user interface components.
- Bootswatch is a collection of themed swatches that you can download for free. Using a Bootwatch theme is as easy as downloading the CSS file and replacing the one that comes with Bootstrap. It enables developers using Bootstrap to try on a new look, without investing much time or energy.
- Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS. Setting up Font Awesome can be as simple as adding two lines of code to your website.
- Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources. Google Analytics can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines and social networks, direct visits and referring sites.
- Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, organize, and remember the links you find interesting on the web.
- Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service for exchanging short information messages in real-time concerning the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting.
- Disqus (/dï-sküs/) is a blog comment hosting service for websites and online communities. Disqus provides a comment system complete with social network integration, advanced administration and moderation options, and other extensive community functions.
- Google Fonts has a directory of Open Source, customizable web fonts and they provide an API service makes it easy to add Google Fonts to a website in seconds.
- Atom is a XML-based file format for web content syndication, which is the process of pushing you content to other sites or content readers. Atom was developed to deal with some of the limitations that designers felt existed in the standard RSS feed.
- MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers. It use Latex, and renders it directly into HTML source, when content is embedded inline or for displayed math.
- Make is a utility that automatically builds executable programs and libraries from source code by reading files called makefiles which specify how to derive the target program. Besides building programs, Make can be used to manage any project where some files must be updated automatically from others whenever the others change.
- Vim is highly configurable, but often misunderstood, text editor built to enable efficient text editing, with the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi' and a more complete feature set. Vim is often called a "programmer's editor" and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
