Magit git interface on emacs. It's a joy.
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
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#82Everything[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/
There's also Agent Ransack for searching file content. I don't use Windows much nowadays, but ripgrep and fzf are sure handy on linux and mac.
Thank you, I just installed Agent Ransack and am checking it out. VoidTools Everything just searches filenames, not content, so this could be very useful.
I found it amusing that they also offer what is apparently the same product with completely different branding "for corporate environments" called FileLocator Lite/Pro.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#83fasttext : https://fasttext.cc/
I am a hobbyist NLP researcher and have published 4 papers in the last year just thanks to this library and the many life-saving tweaks. Honestly a world-class effort from the team at Facebook.
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#84total 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.
For terminal there are ranger (pyton) and lf (go) which i prefer over mc
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#85VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
+1 for VSCode for its configuration portability plugin, settings sync. It’s never been so easy to sync editor changes across my machines, and I’ve only had 1 dependency issue using it in 4 years. No longer having to maintain my vim config and dependencies has been great.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#86fasttext : https://fasttext.cc/ I am a hobbyist NLP researcher and have published 4 papers in the last year just thanks to this library and the many life-saving tweaks. Honestly a world-class effort from the team at Facebook.
Seems much more comprehensive than GloVe (https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/)
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#87perl, used in command-line mode. This is my data munging superpower.
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#88- 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)
Anyone know what the best way to set up Emacs on macOS is?
I keep a clone of the main GNU Emacs git repository and build the emacs-27 branch (27 is the upcoming release) every few days on my MacBook (and the master branch on my Linux workstation).
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#89Zsh, mainly because of shortcuts, shared history, autocomplete that works
Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
#90Overcast says its Smart Speed feature has saved me 30 hours (over the last ~5 months), so I expect it to save me 100 hours within a year. It is especially useful for podcasts and language learning material with a lot of pauses, but I have become used to it, and so I now keep it enabled for most audiobooks that I load into Overcast just to get the dynamic playback speed.
I'm at 173 hours! I've liked Overcast (I've been a premium customer for two years), but I find myself wishing it has better features now. It feels like it was the best a couple years ago but hasn't done much since. Smart Speed is the one thing that has kept me from switching to something else so far.