My recommendations

Terminal etc.

• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell - PowerShell 7+ - faster & better then Windows PowerShell
• https://ohmyposh.dev/ - amazing prompts - replace that old $ sign with amazing stuff
• https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git - offers a prompt for git repos. Comes bundled with oh-my-posh for PowerShell. Use oh-my-posh prompt and posh-git for autocompletion.

git

• https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore - .gitignore files for your project
• https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/ - remove password from git history & more

node

• https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm - node version manager - install several versions of node and switch between them
• https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows - same as ^ but for windows

http

• https://www.telerik.com/fiddler/fiddler-classic - inspect http traffic/modify & replay requests

other

• https://nomacs.org/ - free, open source image viewer - because the default Windows one sux
• https://keepass.info/ - free safe password database
• https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - my go to video player