Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by anotherevan » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

wingmanjd wrote: post #290

Ninite's automated installers [1]. This one tool has saved me hundreds of hours back in my support days (both at previous sidejobs and family members' houses) in downloading, installing, and _updating_ basic applications. I could leave the tiny Ninite executable on their desktop with the instruction to just run it once a month and it would keep all their stuff up to date. [1] https://ninite.com/ Install or Update Mul…

I don't use Windows that much, have used Ninite in the past, but these days I tend to use Chocolatey along with their GUI.

https://chocolatey.org/

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

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

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Post by theshadowmonkey » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 4:30 AM UTC

askvictor wrote: post #238

ivanjermakov wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried to migrate to something more lightweight like (neo)?vim, Helix, emacs; but regardless of how good their syntax awareness/LSP support is, it's always inferior to JetBrains IDEs. Simple example: (any language, e.g. Rust) rename a function across multiple files and undo it. Let me know how you'd do it in your editor of choice.

Having recently moved from IntelliJ to VS Code, I still miss a few things in the IntelliJ platform (it's overall layout is cleaner, important things are easy to get to), but VSCode has (last I checked) far superior remote debugging support, and is otherwise similar enough once you get past the muscle-memory.

Big thing I miss working on VS code and IntelliJ interchangeably. Local history of your changes. Huge differentiator while working on a lot of changes.

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

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Post by theshadowmonkey » Sun, Jan 01, 2023, 4:32 AM UTC

jansan wrote: post #264

ivanjermakov wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tried to migrate to something more lightweight like (neo)?vim, Helix, emacs; but regardless of how good their syntax awareness/LSP support is, it's always inferior to JetBrains IDEs. Simple example: (any language, e.g. Rust) rename a function across multiple files and undo it. Let me know how you'd do it in your editor of choice.

I have been using IntelliJ IDEs since the early 2000s. Currently I am using WebStorm's (IntelliJ's small JS brother), and the local history feature in combination with the outstanding diff view are just one reason why I could not work without it.

Local history is a game changer. And live templates. The one I use is using a template to automatically put in console log with the context of where(line num and function name) when I type a shortcut like cl

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

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Post by melagonster » Mon, Jan 02, 2023, 1:30 AM UTC

jen729w wrote: post #475

melagonster wrote: post #403

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where can I input regex to excel? I really need that, last time I copied table to nopad++ then copy paste it back.

I didn’t. I pasted the output and munged it with Excel’s trusty text functions.

so in this time, Excel isn't so good...