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 edwinyzh » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:46 AM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #225

dorkwood wrote: post #62

Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant. Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everything has become a necessity for me. [0]: https://www.voidtools.com/

I love that program, but must warn though, that I think there were few cases, when it affected file I/O.

That's why I only launch it when needed. The other time, I use listary (but couldn't replace Search Everything in all cases such as I need to view the dates and sizes of the list of matched files).

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

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:47 AM UTC

sriram_malhar wrote: post #87

perl, used in command-line mode. This is my data munging superpower.

`perl -pie` all by itself probably falls into the "saved you 100 hours" bucket for me.

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

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Post by bambambazooka » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:50 AM UTC

ynac wrote: post #38

wmichelin wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you be open to sharing more about your workflow? 1000% increase in productivity is a bold statement!

Heh...maybe less bold if you could have seen how terrible my productivity was before! But sure, I'm happy to share. It's now next up on the article hopper. To be shared here and on my blog / gopher site soon.

I'm very interested, what's the URL of your blog?

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

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:52 AM UTC

altmind wrote: post #31

Maybe not 100hrs, but ~40 Regex Buddy $40. regex tester, debugger and in a lesser extent, regex applier.

Regex 101 has probably saved 100 hours for me: https://regex101.com

(Back when I was looking for something like this, Regex Buddy always popped up in the search results but it didn't look good enough to fire up a windows VM just to use it. The auto-generated explanations based on your regex/test data from regex101 have proven to be tremendous debugging aids.)

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

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Post by masteruvpuppetz » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:53 AM UTC

UIPath RPA has been very useful for automating what ppl like to call donkey-tasks (repetitive/time consuming mundane things)

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

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

sandreas wrote: post #84

xallace wrote: post #79

total commander .. orthodox file manager, I dont understand why this is not a built-in file manager for any os. I just want to find and organize stuff, I dont want to manage windows.

For terminal there are ranger (pyton) and lf (go) which i prefer over mc

+1 for ranger for me

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

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Post by butz » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:54 AM UTC

xallace wrote: post #79

total commander .. orthodox file manager, I dont understand why this is not a built-in file manager for any os. I just want to find and organize stuff, I dont want to manage windows.

Best 40EUR* I've ever spent (* actual price might be different now). It has everything you might want in a file manager (advanced search, integrated archive management, diff, multi rename tool, multiple tabs, FTP client, customizable UI and many more features). If you need additional functionality there's even huge plugin library.

Been using it from Windows 98 as a "trial" version, so during all those years saved hours count is immeasurable. Sadly, there's no decent alternative on Linux. Krusader looks functionally almost on par, but there's something about UI and lack of integrated tools (it uses external programs for some functionality) is throwing me off.

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

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Post by postify2 » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:55 AM UTC

A very big pain we've been having for a while is debugging our app that's been running on Kubernetes for the past year. The local debugging tools are great, but attempting to debug certain issues in a remote environment is a major pain that probably wasted hundreds of hours of waiting for tests, redeploying etc.

To mitigate that, we've been using a tool called Rookout (https://www.rookout.com). We no longer need console.log statements in our code - We just set non-breaking breakpoints via their Web IDE and it just works - we get all the data we need, and without redeploying ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:55 AM UTC

GitLab CI/CD.

Once it is in place it saves plenty of keystrokes and routine tasks.

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

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Post by hoistbypetard » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 7:57 AM UTC

slg wrote: post #101

pottertheotter wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't love its web interface. But its ability to do the smartspeed thing + sync the played status to my phone for when I move from my desk to walking the dogs has been enough to stave off the switch for me.

What are you thinking about switching to?