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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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bogidon wrote: post #181

- keeping all your configuration files (“dotfiles”: shell, git, etc) in one, version controlled place. Makes setting up new machines so much less stressful. Here are mine in case you’re interested, for macOS and Ubuntu: https://github.com/Bogidon/dotfiles - setting up a personal vpn with a reserved IP if you connect to services that require your IP to be whitelisted and you move often - for git cli: dashes take you b…

I've been using "Copied", but in the last few months on Catalina it suddenly loses the ability to copy out of its history window, whether via cmd+c or clicking. Only an app restart solves it. I emailed the developer over a month ago and never got a reply, so... guess I'm switching to "Paste App".

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by alperonline »

https://aspnetzero.com/ - Application startup template for ASP.NET Core

It has tons of useful features that should be in a line of business application. It saves you more than 100 hours with pre-built pages (authentication, permission management, localization, multi-tenancy, SaaS features, CRUD Page Generator (RAD Tool), themes etc.)

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Post by austinjp »

sandreas wrote: post #354
dceddia wrote: post #100

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…

Hehe since i got to know 'cd -' which changes back to the last directory i did not miss this feature - but it sounds interesting, and i should try it out.

You're going to love pushd and popd.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by tkainrad »

This is a great thread, thanks for asking this question!

My blog post about setting up a Linux workstation has a few timesavers: https://tkainrad.dev/posts/setting-up-linux-workstation/#boo...

An important improvement for me was to switch from Bash to Zsh and use a variety of plugins, such as z, zsh-peco-history (better history search), zsh-autosuggestions, and zsh-syntax-highlighting.

If you work a lot with ssh, it is also worth the effort to create a proper .ssh/config that contains the most used hosts.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Post by yekuta »

We're very pleased with ASP.NET Zero (https://aspnetzero.com/). The best starting point for web applications I've ever found that enables faster time to market. It helped us to build web applications very fast and not dealing with repeating tasks (like user/role/permission management, localization, audit logging, multi-tenancy, UI components, exception handling system..). Its feature richness, ease of use, comprehensive documentation and good support has saved us tons of time&money.
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