I find these packages to be the most useful in my development using Atom. For me, it turns Atom into an IDE of sorts that I can use with nearly any language.

As a graduate student, it's important to make good use of time. These applications and general "things" help me do that.

Since the inception of information controls, governments have been working to limit access to the open Internet. This happens through a variety of methods, such as throttling, changing website content, or completely blocking access to a service. So developers reacted by creating novel ways to circumvent these controls, and thus the arms race was born.