Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by Stratoscope » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:25 AM UTC

dorkwood wrote: post #62

Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant. Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everything has become a necessity for me. [0]: https://www.voidtools.com/

A hearty second to that! Everything is one of the first programs I install on any new Windows installation.

Even on a machine with several million files on it, it searches as fast as I can type.

Everything also has an API that I've used to integrate the search into my own apps:

https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/sdk/

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

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Post by amirathi » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:25 AM UTC

Quill[1] editor has saved me (and many others) 100+ hours. Imagine building a rich text editor from scratch in your product.

Also - git, Django REST framework, VueJS

[1] https://quilljs.com/

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

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Post by geocrasher » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:26 AM UTC

Windows: 1) Autohotkey 2) Ditto Clipboard Manager 3) ShareX

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

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Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:26 AM UTC

iterm 2

vscode

alfred

prettier for js

mix format for elixir

github actions

okta logins for my employees

aptible for server management

render.com for personal projects

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

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:27 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #67

The go-jira CLI probably comes close over the last 12 months. https://github.com/go-jira/jira

That is an impossibly good name.

Also thanks! I'm getting Jira'd, and some things are so slow that it can take upwards of 30 minutes to set up tasks / reorganize / etc. Automation would help a lot.

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

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Post by sudeepto_dutta » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

How is your experience with Yabai ? I just read about it but reluctant to try it . How stable is it ? Can we switch spaces with it ?

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

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Post by 2019-nCoV » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:30 AM UTC

Docker for local dev environments. Easily 100s of hours saved from needless tinkering to get n services × packages working in harmony, all to have to do it again 3 months later after an OS update.

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

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Post by Groxx » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:31 AM UTC

Probably git, 1password (though I'm planning to shift to Bitwarden), and entr: http://eradman.com/entrproject/

Having a simple standard way to automate all of my modify->"do x" runs has been wonderful, and (with a bit of care in your project structure) being able to near-livecode in almost any language is an incredible productivity boost.

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

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Post by xallace » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:32 AM UTC

total commander .. orthodox file manager, I dont understand why this is not a built-in file manager for any os. I just want to find and organize stuff, I dont want to manage windows.

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

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Post by quaquaqua1 » Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 3:33 AM UTC

For my specific workflow, Notepad++ and UnrealEd. Mastering bsp is a really fun skill to have and for the most part UnrealEd is intuitive with some practice.