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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Overcast says its Smart Speed feature has saved me 30 hours (over the last ~5 months), so I expect it to save me 100 hours within a year. It is especially useful for podcasts and language learning material with a lot of pauses, but I have become used to it, and so I now keep it enabled for most audiobooks that I load into Overcast just to get the dynamic playback speed.

I'm at 173 hours! I've liked Overcast (I've been a premium customer for two years), but I find myself wishing it has better features now. It feels like it was the best a couple years ago but hasn't done much since. Smart Speed is the one thing that has kept me from switching to something else so far.

296 hours myself. I have also been pleased with Overcast until just recently. Now that I am stuck at home, I went from listening to all my podcasts from my phone to listening to most of them from my computer. Overcast's lack of desktop app and pretty poor web interface are causing me to consider switching for the first time.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fascinating to see OpenID here. Where do you use it? I thought it was pretty much dead, so implemented IndieAuth recently which does what I want, replacing OpenID’s functionality.

Keycloak is an IdP. It does everything, including OIDC (which is very widespread) and SAML. I assume when they say "OpenID", they mean OIDC.

I concur.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.

Couldn't agree more.. People who say Electron (on which VSCode is running) is bloated and is slow probably haven't worked on full fledged IDEs using Java.. they consume memory in Gigabytes, are slower, at least appear to be slower, despite using native UI and takes a lot longer to open.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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BeyondCompare (cited in the original thread), especially the folder comparison feature. Saved my sanity when our team's shared directory stopped syncing silently on my laptop and I had to figure out which files I needed to sync manually. WizTree ( https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-... ) is a freeware Windows utility (man, typing this took me back to 1997) that lets you quickly see which file…

AraxisMerge (pretty -- ahem -- comparable to BeyondCompare). A good visual diff tool is a must-have; I can't imagine life without one.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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NimbleText https://nimbletext.com/ has saved me so much time. I use it to generate sql from spreadsheets and other one-off code generation from data.

Oh, I've needed things like that before, but didn't even think to look for it. I just messed with a full CSV for that. Thanks!
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