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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension, and Chrome will discontinue support for it starting in the new year. Really not looking forward to having to search for an alternative...

I guess you can install it in WSL?

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

#13

Home Assistant [0] through bunch of automations we have around our home must’ve saved 100h in total for me and my partner so far. [0] - https://www.home-assistant.io/

What kind of automations have you found necessary? Any time I think about getting into it, I can only think of automations that sound silly or extra but nothing truly time-saving.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

#15
make + pandoc + a build script in my own programming language + latex allow me to auto-generate the reference manual for my toy Lisp interpreter.[1] That was definitely a huge time-saver, since I already had the help entries for an online help system.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasteric/z3s5-lisp/main/do...

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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post #2

Not 100h yet but I've been replacing custom Linux command output parsing with https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33448204 ) lately.

I know this is the modulair way with piping. How would ` jc command args` be as opposed to `command args | jc —-command`?

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Flying Logic

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ObservableHQ - particularly the discovery that I can use most of it locally and privately for free. I've tried with quarto so far, but I think there are other ways too.

What I want is a way to instantly switch between dag and tree data structures: graph for visual editing, tree for easy data entry. So something that would analyze/cluster intelligently to minimize links when converting to tree, for when children have multiple parents.

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