Ask HN: Tools of the trade • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#11

Post by caffeinewriter » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 7:53 PM UTC

Some of mine:

  JetBrains' WebStorm
  Node.js
  MongoDB
  Redis
  MySQL
  MyCLI
  Git
  GitLab (Hosted and Self-Hosted)
  Gulp
  FireBug
  Trello
  Slack
  CircleCI or Travis, depending on the project
  WakaTime

I'm sure I'll find some more that I missed on my own list as well.

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#12

Post by fumar » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

Google Docs, OneNote, HipChat, Jira, TerminalOne, TapAnalytics

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#13

Post by sampwing » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 8:09 PM UTC

Slate

Vim

Vimium w/ Chrome

IntelliJ

Docker

Redis

MySQL

Elasticsearch

Slack

GoTo Metting

Jira

Confluence

Git

GitHub

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#14

Post by RedNifre » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

Haskell for large things

Ruby for small things

Java to earn a living (with a bit of Ruby here and there)

(I'm currently evaluating Kotlin and Javascript as well)

.

OpenBSD on the server

Ubuntu for developing

.

Android Studio (IntelliJ) for Java

Atom with Vim Mode (and a thousand other plugins that turn it into an OS similar to how I imagine emacs) for everything else

.

Github

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#15

Post by erbdex » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 8:53 PM UTC

  terminator/iTerm
  vagrant
  travis
  tmux
  Twisted
  ELK

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#16

Post by bobochan » Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 9:07 PM UTC

My tools changed quite a bit this year. I am using:

  emacs
  textmate2
  R
  python / pandas
  jupyter notebooks (python, R, julia kernels)
  c++
  Clojure
  Common Lisp
  
  linux on the server
  os x on my laptop
  ipad / prompt2 / pythonista / bluetooth keyboard

Almost all of my serious work is being done in either R or python right now, which is a big change from using more proprietary tools like SAS, Stata, and Matlab.

I think I might have been the last person on the planet to figure out that an iPad with a bluetooth keyboard in a coffee shop or library is a very productive work setup and that I do not need to lug my laptop everywhere.

We are living in a fantastic era and I just cannot believe the amazing free tools that are available for things like network analysis (NetworkX) and spatial visualization (ggmap).

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#17

Post by RaitoBezarius » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

I am essentially using:

  *Development*:
  URxvt-unicode
  vim on Linux
  Sublime Text 3 on Windows
  Python (and a lot of libs, mainly, requests, Flask, AutobahnPython, Twisted)
  Rust (my new shiny tool)
  C/C++ (sometimes, but I try to avoid it)
  Frontend JavaScript (It has been a long time since I've written some ES5, I write only ES6 thanks to Babel)
  Node.js
  Webpack
  React.js
  Crossbar.io
  Git + GitHub
  Zsh (prezto framework)
  Fish (on servers sometimes)
  tmux (a.k.a the productivity booster)
  virtualenvwrapper (must-have for Python & virtualenv)
  nvm (must-have for Node.js & NPM)
  rvm (must-have for Ruby)
  fasd (when cd isn't enough, j somewhere)
  
  *Fonts*:
  Monoid whenever I can.
  Source Code Pro.
  Else, whatever can do the job.
  
  *OSes*:
  Debian on Server
  Archlinux, Debian, Windows 7 on laptop (1st, fallback on others...)
  I try to use the most appropriated OS for containers (Docker)
  
  *Services*:
  PostgreSQL OR RethinkDB whenever I can. SQLite when I can't.
  Redis
  Docker (+ dockercli)
  Docker-Compose
  nginx
  
  *SaaS*:
  Slack
  Inbox
  TweetDeck
  Asana
  Hacker News (the worst one :c)

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

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Post by hackertoolbox » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 4:06 AM UTC

I made a toolbox which includes tools from "Tools of the trade"/"Show HN". Glad to hear suggestions on how to make it (more) useful.

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

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Post by 1arity » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 10:06 AM UTC

I use:

  vim on Darwin. 
  javascript es6.
  chrome canary 
  chromestatus.com
  chrome apps apis. 
  gae 
  managed vm
  docker
  gce
  python
  brain

Re: Ask HN: Tools of the trade

#20

Post by VOYD » Fri, Aug 14, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

I'm mainly focused on web apps so:

VS Online/Visual Studio, Adobe Brackets, Git

C#: IIS, ASP.NET, Node.js JavaScript: vanilla, jquery, Knockout.js

The modern browser matrix & related built-in "dev tools"