Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by jpmattia » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:23 PM UTC

wdrw wrote: post #9

The Mosh SSH client for intermittent connectivity ( https://mosh.org/ ) has definitely saved me at least 100 hours. Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension, and Chrome will discontinue support for it starting in the new year. Really not looking forward to having to search for an alternative...

> Too bad that it's only available for Windows as a Chrome extension

Looks like it's available under msys2 on windows: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mosh

As an aside: msys2 mingw64 and friends are > 100 hours saved if you are a linux-soul in a windows environment. I don't think msys gets the attention it deserves.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by sergiotapia » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:25 PM UTC

TablePlus for dev and prod database stuff. Easy as hell, worth the cash.

ChatGPT at it's worst saves me an hour a day.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by 7952 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:25 PM UTC

I work as a consultant and have to do a timesheet. I use an old app called TimeSnapper that records screen grabs every few seconds. Works brilliantly for timesheets and has saved me numerous times.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by inasio » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

Not really a program, but this year the Tabu [0] heuristic saved me at least on that order of time. I work on combinatorial optimization problem (think traveling salesman), typically we use local search heuristics like simulated annealing or parallel tempering that work well but require a lot of hyper parameter tuning. Tabu is super simple, has very few parameters to tune, and works great.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_search

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by mastudebaker » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

On windows, http://symbolclick.com/index.htm is great for XML and JSON viewing. Use it pretty much everyday. Really love the way it display data in a table format.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:27 PM UTC

I'd say that Charles Proxy (https://charlesproxy.com) is my "secret sauce."

It allows me to quickly evaluate server interactions in my software, without having to program in all kinds of logging.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by fotta » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:28 PM UTC

k9s makes me feel like (and look like to my coworkers) a k8s wizard, the parenthetical especially when I'm sharing my terminal and zipping around using keyboard shortcuts

https://github.com/derailed/k9s

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by daniel_reetz » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:28 PM UTC

Ultrafast, super lite file search on Windows, Voidtools "Everything": https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

I haven't touched the Windows Search utility since I found it.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by kennedy » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC

Terraform: mainly because my organization used to make everything manually, using boto3/sdk scripts, and poorly tested/constructed cloudformation templates

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

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Post by ss48 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:30 PM UTC

Everything Search by Voidtools.