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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)
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Where I live we have frequent scheduled power outages, I use that to schedule when and how far to charge my batteries
South Africa?
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#233Not 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`?
Both ways work:
$ jc ifconfig lo0
$ ifconfig lo0 | jc --ifconfigRe: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#234I find good use of my skill in the following: DBeaver: use a consistent interface for practically any data store. Wanna SELECT and JOIN CSVs? It can do that too. https://www.mail-tester.com/ - Fantastic email server settings troubleshooter. Excel / Calc / Gnumeric: I don't even know macros, just the functions, sorting, filtering, and pivot tables enable good productivity. And sometimes fun, I chose my current video c…
I've long been a DataGrip user, but Dbeaver impressed me when it was the first to enable Aurora Babelfish support.
Wow, DataGrip also looks very nice. I find it funny that how first we had Eclipse vs IntelliJ, and now DBeaver vs DataGrip - each built on the respective platform, DBeaver on Eclipse, and DataGrip on IntelliJ.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#235github copilot
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#236good ole find, grep, sed, and jq.
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#237fzf!!!
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#238Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…
I've tried to migrate to something more lightweight like (neo)?vim, Helix, emacs; but regardless of how good their syntax awareness/LSP support is, it's always inferior to JetBrains IDEs. Simple example: (any language, e.g. Rust) rename a function across multiple files and undo it. Let me know how you'd do it in your editor of choice.
Having recently moved from IntelliJ to VS Code, I still miss a few things in the IntelliJ platform (it's overall layout is cleaner, important things are easy to get to), but VSCode has (last I checked) far superior remote debugging support, and is otherwise similar enough once you get past the muscle-memory.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#239Each of the following is in the 1000 hours saved club (in no particular order): jq, perl, grep, gnu textutils, gnu parallel, bash, xargs, gkrellm, nload. Make deserves a special shout out. If you think it's only useful for building software, you've completely missed the point (similarly, if you think some language-specific tool is superior, you're doing things completely wrong): Anyway, this document saved me at leas…
jq + parallel is a godsend. Take some command output, run another json-producing command in parallel on each line, and pipe it back into jq -s
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#240Seeing a lot of “fiddly” software being listed here. Stuff that lets you configure and tune a workflow endlessly. It’s ironic that this is the sort of thing most of us will think of, since it doesn’t really account for time saved so much as time spent fiddling… Keeping an eye out for software that you barely use, as this is the kind with the most potential to truly save me time.
Reminds me of a co-worker who would spend between 3-5 hours a day messing with their vim config. I know we cannot actually write code for 8 hours a day, heck a 3-4 hour session can feel too long. But spending 15+ hours a week endlessly fiddling with their tools was hilarious to watch on some level. I remember at team lunches how they would go on and on about this new plugin they found that is going to save them so much time now. Oh the irony if they only stepped back for a moment...