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Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by n0um3n4 » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:18 AM UTC

s3micolon0 wrote: post #8

I love deepwiki for understanding deep code architectures: https://deepwiki.com/

wow...!

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by Serhii-Set » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 12:21 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by caprios » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by oumua_don17 » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:29 PM UTC

Why should I tell if it's supposed to be hidden? :-)

But here we go, Common Lisp for rapid prototyping at my FAANG job, so I'm actually paid to do that!!!

edit: minor typo

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by rootnod3 » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

oumua_don17 wrote: post #54

Why should I tell if it's supposed to be hidden? :-) But here we go, Common Lisp for rapid prototyping at my FAANG job, so I'm actually paid to do that!!! edit: minor typo

Now I'm jealous

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by digikata » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 11:56 AM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #47

digikata wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be interested in: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly - fuzzy shell history (feels lighter than atuin to me, in rust) https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec - rerun on file change, knows about .gitignore/.ignore etc (in rust) https://github.com/jonas/tig - instead of lazygit, mostly for easier git log viewing for me as I use straight git most of the time Otherwise a lot of crossover in what I use too.

"feels lighter"? is it or is it not lighter?

Last I checked, and things might have changed, atuin runs a full posgresql database to store and sync the history, while mcfly is lighter, it also has a narrower feature scope.

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by ellieh » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

digikata wrote: post #56

KomoD wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"feels lighter"? is it or is it not lighter?

Last I checked, and things might have changed, atuin runs a full posgresql database to store and sync the history, while mcfly is lighter, it also has a narrower feature scope.

So Atuin actually runs postgresql on the server only - the part that handles sync for many users

On the client, it uses sqlite. As of recently, it also keeps an in-memory Nucleo index to make fuzzy searching much faster

Re: Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

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Post by mcevoypeter » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 8:19 PM UTC

1. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf for fuzzy search. Great for easily searching and selecting git branches + tags + commits, commands from shell history, files, shell jobs, processes, etc.

2. https://github.com/casey/just for more structured scripting.