VSCode, and/or Sublime Text have probably saved me a hundred hours I would have spent waiting for Eclipse to start.
+1 for Sublime Text for being so darn fast.
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#92Everything[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/
Wow, thanks for sharing this.
Also, to second your question: what the hell did happen to Windows search? I always just assumed I'd done something to break it (and honestly, could never be bothered trying to "fix" it... even after all these years), but apparently it's inherently broken.
I know very little about OS software. Could someone explain at a high-level how something as fundamental as file search can be rendered totally unusable? Doesn't windows have the best engineers in the world working on it?
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#93fasttext : 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/ )
it is a lot more comprehensive and it is fast. Text classifier with millions of documents done in 5 - 10 mins on normal hardware.
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#94For better or worse, I find GUI git clients to be less useful than the CLI. But like any CLI tool, it's productivity is limited by your ability to type without errors. Git has an Autocorrect[1] that will help you out.
> git config --global help.autocorrect 1
Based on bash history data, I've also added a simple alias to my bash config:
> alias gti="git"
[1]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Configura...
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#951Password - remove cognitive load and easy ass to all my secrets across devices. Including sharing with family and coworkers
Rubymine - Ruby And JavaScript IDE with powerful SCM, test and debugging tools.
Notion - Shared Knowledgeable and collaboration. Really easy to go from a free form unstructured draft to organized, structured and easily accessible knowledge repo.
Whimsical - My favorite diagraming and wireframing tool.
Notable mentions
Stoplight OPen API editor.
Sunsama - light weight and collaborative todo list with focus on Calendaring
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#96Ruby on Rails. Still nothing better for getting a high quality product out the door fast.
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#97Since nobody else has mentioned it: Steam, over a long period of time.
It makes purchases easy, it makes reviews / researching games easy, it makes updates very easy, it often makes finding mods easy, it makes installs easy. And it reduces issues of lost games / keys after many years go by, as they're all in the library.
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#98For writing HTML & CSS, definitely the Emmet plugin: https://emmet.io/ I still find myself in situations where I need more than Markdown but less than React; as a result I just need to quickly get some HTML on a page. Emmet lets you expand a snippet similar to a CSS selector into full-fledged markup, complete with attributes.
+1 for emmet.
I love the plag in.
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#100The Z command line utility has saved me a ton of time. It remembers the directories you’ve visited and lets you jump to them with just a few characters. Almost like Chrome’s autocomplete for recently-visited directories (if you’re used to being able to type “g” to go to gmail or “n” for “news.ycombinator.com”...). For instance I can run “z B” and it’ll jump to my ~/Business directory (and “z ss” would do the same).