Not at 100 hrs yet but fastlane is getting there.
I set it up for making screenshots, building, sending to slack & submitting an app to App and Play Store. Saves time by minimising boring work, double win.
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)
#292GitHub Copilot As a manager & parent with only occasional bursts of time to code (some work, mostly side/fun stuff), Copilot has turned out to be incredibly useful in smoothing over all of the small things I'm slow at because I don't do them daily. And especially since I have limited time, I just want to get the damn thing working and am quite happy to my way there as quickly as possible.
I assume you use it with VS Code. Anyone used copilot with SublimeText? I know a plugin exists...
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#293Windows. I used Mac OS X a few years. But in my opinion Mac OS X is (or was, back in this time) PITA. Switching back to Windows has definitively saved me hundreds of hours!
That is so strange. I worked in a mixed shop and all of us OSX people laughed our butts off when we did zoom and screen share with Windows guys as they took forever to do stuff we did almost instantly. I used Windows side-by-side with OSX for years and had nothing like your experience.
But, good on you. It's nice that you found your niche. If you ever are forced to switch back reach out. I have a lot of good techniques for fast and pleasant OSX.
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#294macOS and its integration with mac touchpad. I used Windows and Linux on several laptops and none was so well designed to switch between desktops and searching for windows. Ah and M1 speeds (unless you count updates and installing Xcode but you can't have everything).
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#295Cleanshot X
I'm a product designer. I spend a significant amount of time taking screenshots—dropping them in Figma, slacking them to PMs and annotating them for engineers. The tool keeps screenshots suspended on your desktop until you decide what to do with them—save, annotate or copy it to clipboard. It doesn't save the screenshots if you don't want it to, so it prevents a ton of clutter.
Not to mention it has video recording that I frequently use to create video walkthroughs for features I'm working on.
The tool is a pretty expensive Mac App, but worth every penny.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#296I'll join those who benefit from personal workflow automation. I use
BASH Alfred Applescript NodeJS bbedit
in a zillion combinations to make things fast and easy. I have a bad memory so I have tons of BASH aliases and .bashrc terminal reminder files. I use Alfred, for example, to record 'time clientA 1 do an hour of work' in a tenth of a second. I use Alfred and AppleScript to shuffle windows around as I focus attention or finish things. bbedit's find/replace/regex stuff is better than anything I have ever seen. I use it to munge files in crazy ways. I have a set of files that act as a NodeJS ad hoc workspace. (Need to change the GUID on the records in a tsv file? Not a problem.)
And when I do something that has ongoing value, Alfred and/or bbedit give me a way to add them to the toolkit.
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#297Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS. I even run a fully fledged tiling wm written in autohotkey. ( For reference, here's when I tricked r/unixporn into thinking it was bspwm https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/nhzz3b/confession... ) Fluent search Spotlight on steroids, for windows. Apart from being a search/launcher, it has a bunch of atrociously good features. It lets you use a c…
> Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS.
No, there are: hammerspoon or Keyboard Maestro for macOS. Which has better accessibility API hooks compared to Windows anyway.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay but clearly none of this is "the point" of make, so your original comment is still baffling.
The point of make is that it's not only useful for building software. Take a look at the built-in implicit rules: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue... There are two things to note: (1) you can turn them off so they don't get in the way of other use cases, (2) they include non-build stuff like version control, linting, and document generation. There's also a whole chapter on ar file maintena…
Your point is that make has uses beyond that. That is not "the point of make"
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#299Workflowy for task management.
Made me more efficient, must have net saved me 100 hours.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#300For me it’s github copilot. It produces bad code frequently and often code that looks good at a glance, but is bad. So I treat the output with extreme prejudice. However, I think it saves me a few hours a month on average. Maybe not 100 in a year, but in two or three years, certainly. It saves me much more time than my IDE does (JetBrains + vscode).