On: Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into

[Jsharm]

Yes, and in the vein of this git became way less scary after learning how it works this course helped a lot (unfortunately paid but a lot of businesses have a licence - https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/how-git-works).

I also use magit (https://magit.vc/) - inside spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org/)