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Fish (suggested by the article as well) is amazing. Also:
But honestly, lots of classics are still great: git, htop, rsync, vim, nano, ....
I'm usually a bit scornful of "bling" commands, but bat seems genuinely useful.
Be careful not to replace bash with fish as some systems fail to work with new shell. I usually init fish/nu shells with other instruments, like alacritty and/or zellij
Interesting suggestion of btop. How does it compare to htop?
I like btop better just on an aesthetic level. But they all show the same shit as far as I can tell.
Real programmers cat the data directly from /proc
Personally I find btop really hard to glance at and see what's happening, htop is much better for opening up and quickly checking what process is hogging CPU/RAM/IO/whatever.