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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#412Karabiner, Keyboard Maestro & Alfred for me. Probably more than 1000 hours at this point. Need to update my macOS repo with more tools I use now. https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os
I have been using Karabiner to use vim bindings within OS. CAPS + h/j/k/l... to move up/down... . It's easier than moving your hand to direction keys.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#413Oh My Zsh: https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
I started with OMZ but later moved to prezto due to speed issues. It has same plugins but it is faster.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#414Overcast 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.
Maybe this will be unpopular, but I feel like speeding up podcasts is really disrespectful to the creator. It'd be incredibly rude to tell someone in real life that they're talking too slow, and in my opinion this is the same thing. Podcasts don't need to be so transactional.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#415StackOverflow, if it can be regarded as a program. Spectacle: Easily organize windows without using a mouse on macOS. https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
Only limitation of spectacle is lack of spaces support. You can't create spaces in spectacle. But I use it as my WM and have been very happy with it's simplicity and reliability.
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#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fascinating to see OpenID here. Where do you use it? I thought it was pretty much dead, so implemented IndieAuth recently which does what I want, replacing OpenID’s functionality.
Pretty much dead and replaced by what? (I am curoous as I thought it was a well established standard)
As stated, the poster is talking about OIDC, not the predecessor OpenID.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#417Not sure if it saved me 100hrs but Clipman[1], a simple clipboard manager. This combined with a Super+C shortcut means you can copy multiple things in once and paste them in the order you want. * [1]: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/clipman/start
I have been using copyq and that is fantastic.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#418zsh fuzzy search in command history. Just a couple of characters from a previous command, pressing up/down and you can modify and run a previous command.
I use zsh fuzzy search as my poor man's command bookmarking tool. Any command I want to bookmark, I add `#b ` at the end. This way I can get the command with a description and get all the commands using `#b`.
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
296 hours myself. I have also been pleased with Overcast until just recently. Now that I am stuck at home, I went from listening to all my podcasts from my phone to listening to most of them from my computer. Overcast's lack of desktop app and pretty poor web interface are causing me to consider switching for the first time.
I don't love its web interface. But its ability to do the smartspeed thing + sync the played status to my phone for when I move from my desk to walking the dogs has been enough to stave off the switch for me. What are you thinking about switching to?
I haven't yet spent much time researching alternatives. One podcast I used to listen to is now a Spotify exclusive. I use that to stream music and I really like how their desktop and mobile apps work together. I was thinking of giving them a try for podcasts until I realized it didn't seem possible to import an RSS feed. That would eliminate the ability to listen to Patreon supported podcasts which is a deal breaker for me.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#420Probably 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.
Been using spectacle for years but since it's no longer maintained I had to moved to rectangle. Very similar, love it