Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by grayclhn » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:50 AM UTC

“git bisect“ on its own. Magit is getting there, just for incremental and partial staging.

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

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Post by pierremenard » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:51 AM UTC

laurentdc wrote: post #119

# ci = clipboard in, co = clipboard out # xclip so this works in gui apps too alias ci="xclip -selection clipboard" alias co="xclip -selection clipboard -o" Also: tig, Text-mode interface for git https://github.com/jonas/tig

Is that equivalent to `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` on OSX?

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

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Post by drdrey » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:51 AM UTC

thewisenerd wrote: post #57

- IntelliJ IDEA [ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ ] (surprised no one mentioned it yet) - Spotlight - for quick calculations - Contexts [ https://contexts.co/ ] and chunkwm for window management [ https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm ] - Maccy [ https://maccy.app/ ] for a decent and beautiful clipboard manager

I feel like I spend all my time waiting for Intellij IDEA to start up and reindex everything... Does anyone feel like it is snappy?

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

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Post by fbnlsr » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:52 AM UTC

save_ferris wrote: post #85

opwieurposiu wrote: post #64

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

+1 for VSCode for its configuration portability plugin, settings sync. It’s never been so easy to sync editor changes across my machines, and I’ve only had 1 dependency issue using it in 4 years. No longer having to maintain my vim config and dependencies has been great.

I believe Settings Sync is going to be included in the next release of VS Code. Yay!

The amount of work Microsoft is putting in this editor is amazing. Last month we got file history, that was the last thing I needed to ditch the Git GUI I had installed.

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

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Post by hombre_fatal » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:53 AM UTC

1) Any terminal that you can summon/dismiss with a global hotkey. Examples are Guake for Linux and iTerm2 for OSX. I consider this a must-have for all developers.

2) Anything that lets you resize/place windows with hotkeys. For example, Divvy for OSX. Divvy is also nice because if you press the hotkey multiple times, it cycles the application through each of your monitors. No need to ever use your mouse to move/resize a window ever again.

3) Fuzzy file search in your editor. You know you want to open src/components/user.js so you type "cu" and it appears.

Any tools like this that become so ingrained in your muscle memory that you just kind of think things ("move this window and then summon my terminal") and the computer responds.

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

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Post by equasar » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:55 AM UTC

equasar wrote: post #117

amirathi wrote: post #72

Quill[1] editor has saved me (and many others) 100+ hours. Imagine building a rich text editor from scratch in your product. Also - git, Django REST framework, VueJS [1] https://quilljs.com/

tui.editor is another excellent choice, for me was the best one since the handles Markdown as a source for writing out the content. Take a lot a it!

https://github.com/nhn/tui.editor

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

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Post by darkmighty » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:56 AM UTC

jftuga wrote: post #25

https://chocolatey.org/ - The Package Manager for Windows, similar to yum / apt It has tons of software packages.

It's got a different philosophy, but I've had a nice time with scoop

https://scoop.sh/

The difference is that it (largely) stays confined within a directory without even needing elevated privileges and such for installs (which brings peace of mind for community installs). Repository is more centralized and automated too it seems.

Not perfect in a few edge cases, like other programs expecting a certain install location. Overall enormous time saver.

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

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Post by Liwink » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

StackOverflow, if it can be regarded as a program.

Spectacle: Easily organize windows without using a mouse on macOS.

https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

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

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Post by kiliancs » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

lnav (http://lnav.org/). Give it hundrends of thousands of lines of logs and query them with SQL.

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

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Post by xzel » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

pierremenard wrote: post #122

laurentdc wrote: post #119

# ci = clipboard in, co = clipboard out # xclip so this works in gui apps too alias ci="xclip -selection clipboard" alias co="xclip -selection clipboard -o" Also: tig, Text-mode interface for git https://github.com/jonas/tig

Is that equivalent to `pbcopy` and `pbpaste` on OSX?

Those commands aren't exactly the same. These copy what you have selected. You can use xclip just like pbcopy/pbpaste though. Xclip has a few more features and you can get it on mac via brew and nix iirc.