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

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Post by pfranz »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #125

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/resiz…

> 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.

Years ago I saw someone using this (I think it was actually Yakuake) and ran it for a bit. I really didn't like that it was a single session. However, I later messed around with tiling window managers (which relates to your #2!) and having a shortcut to pop up a new terminal is really what I wanted this whole time.

Just to touch on #3, any time I'm writing a gui that's expected to have more than a handful of items I push to add a search bar with fuzzy matching at the top. Otherwise, search would get added after it's used for like a decade and everyone is immediately enthusiastic and grateful. All of the non-fuzzy solutions are too pedantic to use.

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

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Post by chiefsucker »

wwweston wrote: post #33
Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

Anyone know what the best way to set up Emacs on macOS is?

I use the “Emacs Mac Port” which is available via Homebrew.

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

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

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Post by geniium »

Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

Didn't know Yabai! Thanks for sharing. Will have a look at it and probably give it a try.

I am using Amethyst [1] right now as a "tile" window manager which is easy to set up and works as intended.

[1] : https://ianyh.com/amethyst/

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

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Post by arkanciscan »

Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

Any idea how to delete this social network (hacker news)? It's the last one I still use.
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