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- WallabyJS - makes writing tests almost feel addictive, and being able to run and debug the JS directly in the code has saved me hours. - Jetbrains IDEs - the refactoring and debugging tools are second to none.
It might not quite be in the 100 hours bucket over the past 2 years, but it's close... using their toolbox app has made them much easier to keep installed/updated on my Linux workstation.
* pass, the standard unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/ . Instead of stopping whatever I'm doing, thinking about what password I used last time something forced me to rotate, pass saves the day! * AwesomeWM, https://awesomewm.org/ . Maybe not a program per se, anyway using easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking through a gui probably saved me a few minutes here and there. * Gentoo P…
I moved to SaltStack https://www.saltstack.com/
Not a program as such but learning to touch type zsh & ohmyzsh plugins Clipboard manager - built my own because I wasn't happy with the ones I had tried... https://nellyapp.com
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I love vim and have been using it for years. However, I really struggle to find a good config for writing typescript. I see my VSCode colleagues having a blast with auto completion and type signatures lookups. But I could never get this right in vim. Is there a resource about state of the art typescript with vim?
Typescript works well using vim-polyglot. For the autocomplete I don't actually use it, but the last time I tried, coc.vim was nice (it is actually the VSCode completion engine in vim).
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/
FSearch is an equivalent for Linux. https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
Using vim as my main editor has incredibly increased my productivity, but learning to use it's macros saved me even a more tremendous amount of time. It takes a while to learn to use it, but after that any kind of repetitive task can be done easily with it. And if combined with some bash and vimscript knowledge, it is even greater.
I love vim and have been using it for years. However, I really struggle to find a good config for writing typescript. I see my VSCode colleagues having a blast with auto completion and type signatures lookups. But I could never get this right in vim. Is there a resource about state of the art typescript with vim?
It supports macros, and as far as I can tell most of the actual navigation and text manipulation stuff works, even stuff that I didn't find in spacemacs. Even relative line numbers work which has been a godsend. I can navigate tabs using gt/gp, and split windows with :split/:vsplit, but I use the built in file search/navigator for opening files which is far superior to anything I managed to get set up in vim (and I played around a lot).
Then I have a simple .vimrc with only a handful of modifications (100 lines or so) and I drop down to real vim for writing small scripts, and any other text composition and refactoring, like comments on HN ;)
I hear VSCode has an excellent vim plugin, although having briefly played with VSCode a few months ago I don't think it's the tool for me. I'm happy with something heavyweight for developing projects, and something simpler for quick scripts, slack messages, etc.
YMMV of course but this was the route I ultimately ended up taking and I'm happy with my decision.
- 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.
* pass, the standard unix password manager https://www.passwordstore.org/ . Instead of stopping whatever I'm doing, thinking about what password I used last time something forced me to rotate, pass saves the day! * AwesomeWM, https://awesomewm.org/ . Maybe not a program per se, anyway using easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking through a gui probably saved me a few minutes here and there. * Gentoo P…
And for Ansible, I absolutely like sovereign[2] saved me a lot of time while setting up my home servers.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/a900p7/awesome_me...
The Z command line utility has saved me a ton of time. It remembers the directories you’ve visited and lets you jump to them with just a few characters. Almost like Chrome’s autocomplete for recently-visited directories (if you’re used to being able to type “g” to go to gmail or “n” for “news.ycombinator.com”...). For instance I can run “z B” and it’ll jump to my ~/Business directory (and “z ss” would do the same). h…
For this particular case, I use a ncurses based file manager: ranger
Since I also love ranger as a file manager, I wrote my own integration of both: https://github.com/fdw/ranger-autojump . It remembers where I went in ranger, and I can also call autojump in ranger.