Terminal Tools That Made Me Mass-Uninstall GUI Apps

Six months ago, I used Postman for API testing, a GUI Git client, pgAdmin for databases, and Finder for file management. Today? All gone. Terminal only. Not because I'm a purist. Because these terminal tools are genuinely faster . The Replacements 1. httpie → Replaced Postman # Postman: Click... click... click... send... scroll... # httpie: http GET api.example.com/users Authorization: "Bearer token123" # POST with JSON body http POST api.example.com/users name = John email = john@test.com # Pretty-printed, syntax-highlighted, auto-formatted Why it's better: Zero startup time. Copy-pasteable commands. Shareable in docs. Works in CI. 2. lazygit → Replaced Tower/GitKraken brew install lazygit lazygit Full Git UI in your terminal. Stage files, create commits, manage branches, resolve conflicts — all with keyboard shortcuts. Why it's better: Opens in 0.1s vs 5s for GUI. Works over SSH. Uses 10MB of RAM vs 500MB. 3. pgcli → Replaced pgAdmin pip install pgcli pgcli postgresql://user:pass@loc