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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)

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Post by grecy »

hermitcrab wrote: post #358
manv1 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excel gets my vote for one of the top 10 software programs ever. It's crazy how useful it is.

Excel, the second best program for any task. ;0)

The really impressive part is that it’s Actually the second best program for every task.

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

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Post by davebrny »

robk wrote: post #230
porridgeandrice wrote: post #126

Autohotkey 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…

Can you point me to some good examples? I use it for text replacement but their own site is fairly sparse for creative uses.

this one saved me a lot of time over the years. not a 100 hours but its definitely something i could use maybe a hundred times a day.

https://github.com/davebrny/kiwis

basically when you want to search something, just highlight the word(s), press a hotkey then select a site from the list and it will open up the page directly

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

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Post by gadders »

Alifatisk wrote: post #368
daniel_reetz wrote: post #48

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.

Everything combined with Wox

I use Launchy which I really like.

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

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Post by I_complete_me »

rsync wrote: post #156

vimv You invoke 'vimv' in a directory and the resulting editor is a directory list for your pwd ... and you can edit it as a text document. When you save and exit, all of your file (re)naming is committed to the directory.

How does this differ from vidir? Anyone know?

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

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Post by denolfe »

robk wrote: post #230
porridgeandrice wrote: post #126

Autohotkey 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…

Can you point me to some good examples? I use it for text replacement but their own site is fairly sparse for creative uses.

I used to be a very heavy AHK user and developed a rather extensive config. Here is my config along with a boilerplate to help you start one that is similar:

- https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkey

- https://github.com/denolfe/AutoHotkeyBoilerplate

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

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Post by denolfe »

Karabiner for key remapping has been instrumental for me. I use it for a "hyper key" on CapsLock to provide Vim-like movement keys, text selection, app-specific bind overrides, etc. There is also a library out there for configuring it with TypeScript (Deno).

Hammerspoon for window management is also amazing, though I recently switched to Phoenix because it can be configured in TypeScript. It allows me to have hotkeys to swap to specific apps or toggle between groups of apps.

https://github.com/esamattis/deno_karabiner

https://kasper.github.io/phoenix/

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

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Post by nijave »

ikrenji wrote: post #245
nijave wrote: post #241

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IDEs like this are definitely kludgy and slow but the productivity gain from code navigation, test tool integration, profiler, and debugger is just insane (imo). Having a tool that helps you visualize the code (while it's running) is incredibly powerful

slow? i use both pycharm and webstorm and their are definitely neither kludgy nor slow...

I think it really depends on the language and project size. Any new project tends to make the IDE barely usable while it's indexing. Compared to, say, vi where everything is instant and there's no visual lag, I'd say it's slow. Even on 16 core CPU with 64GB of RAM and some IntelliJ JVM tuning, I still get some lag/stutter.
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