Obsidian!
My new job is a matter of surviving a TON of information sent by a ton of different people each day. And Obsidian has been the tool to organize that information deluge.
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#532warpd avoided me spending a lot of time going from the keyboard to the mouse,for simple point and clicks. Honestly it is super useful.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#533Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…
To add to the point above, it's worth understanding that IntelliJ is not an editor. It's a refactoring engine with a very nice structured editor, and the key to using it effectively is to use the higher-level features that it provides. If you're not using the refactoring tooling then you won't understand why many people love it so much. [It's worth looking under the hood at the plugin APIs. The editor doesn't work on…
Agreed. The refactoring tools are something seemingly as simple as rename as variable or method or parameter name to the more exotic "extract constant" or "extract method" or the super helpful redefine method signature (add/remove params). One reason I prefer strongly typed languages like Go/Scala is that refactoring is less guess-work than in something like Javascript or Ruby.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#534Windows: Fluent Search. Blown away it's not a part of Windows - https://fluentsearch.net/
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#535Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#536Autohotkey There is simply no better automation program on any OS. I even run a fully fledged tiling wm written in autohotkey. ( For reference, here's when I tricked r/unixporn into thinking it was bspwm https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/nhzz3b/confession... ) Fluent search Spotlight on steroids, for windows. Apart from being a search/launcher, it has a bunch of atrociously good features. It lets you use a c…
I just discovered Fluentsearch and love it.
You use Everthing as it's back-end search and not Fluent Search?
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#537Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#538Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel similarly. My journey has been: VS Code, to Codium, to Atom, to Sublime, to now Vim where I feel the most productive.
I get moving to more minimal lightweight software but why go from VSC to Atom?
Wanted to avoid Microsoft's telemetry and felt like I was being spied on.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#539Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
#540If you use Ansible at any larger amount, then you're doing a disservice to yourself if you're not using Mitogen[1][2]. The amount of waiting it has spared me is innumerable at this point. --- [1]: https://scribe.rip/@einarum/speed-up-ansible-with-mitogen-b3... [2]: https://mitogen.networkgenomics.com/ansible_detailed.html
Just tried this, shaved a playbook from from 8 minutes 30 seconds to 3 minutes 10 seconds! Thanks :)
You are very welcome! Please spread the word about this magical bit of software to anyone else using Ansible. Together we can make iterating on Ansible configurations great again!