Maybe not 100hrs, but ~40
Regex Buddy $40. regex tester, debugger and in a lesser extent, regex applier.
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#32Overcast says its Smart Speed feature has saved me 30 hours (over the last ~5 months), so I expect it to save me 100 hours within a year. It is especially useful for podcasts and language learning material with a lot of pauses, but I have become used to it, and so I now keep it enabled for most audiobooks that I load into Overcast just to get the dynamic playback speed.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#33- 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?
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#34Probably a given on Mac: iTerm2 Terminal Emulator https://www.iterm2.com/ Less of a given, still Mac: Rectangle Tiling Window Organiser https://rectangleapp.com/ For Linux I would use Xmonad to achieve the same as the two programs above.
I have been looking for a Windows alike snapping tool for Mac. Just tried Rectangle and it works just fine, thank you!
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#35Hasura [ https://hasura.io ] Graphql API and Subscription for any Postgres DB Keycloak [ https://www.keycloak.org ] OpenID Auth Server nREPL + Cider [ https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider ] Clojure's Network Repl and Emacs integration for live coding Clojure Company Mode [ https://company-mode.github.io ] Emacs autocomplete mode
I'll second Hasura there (presumably an alternative like Postgraphile would have led to a similar result)
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#36Devon Think.
Having a local search engine with annotations is incredibly useful.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#37Jupyter Notebook. And before that iPython (compared to the vanilla Pyton REPL).
Though these are hardly secret tools :)
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#38I spent roughly three months late last year working on my workflow. Figuring out what I was good at, not so good at, and what I'd forever found impossible to do without fear of punishment or shame. Slowly, I learned how I worked best and leveraged these lessons in design of the new work flow. Of course, the solution was far simpler than before. The lessons were often exactly what was exhaustively explained in books a…
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.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#39Probably a given on Mac: iTerm2 Terminal Emulator https://www.iterm2.com/ Less of a given, still Mac: Rectangle Tiling Window Organiser https://rectangleapp.com/ For Linux I would use Xmonad to achieve the same as the two programs above.
Check out yabai for a great macOS tiling manager.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#40- 1Password password manager
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