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Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by screye »

dglass wrote: post #78
screye wrote: post #28

1. A reliable python env manager. Some sort of framework to visualize changes to my env as a visual graph with each update/clone viewable in a git-tree like format. 2. Jupyter lab, but that's as good as VSCode/Pycharm (VS code's jupyter extension is still very lacking. Something like Spyder that's not really a notebook would also work fine) 3. A real Inking->Structure app. Come on. There is money in this. Someone do…

Could you elaborate on your third point about Inking->Structure app? I've been thinking about this lately and am interested in what exactly you're looking for.

To some extent it is the evolution of the

* Image -> Text

* Image -> structure/shape

* Figure out hierarchical structure and graph nodes/edges from extracted shapes and text

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by mettamage »

softwaredoug wrote: post #85

On OSX I miss notepad. The dumbest possible text editor. No cloud syncing of notes, no attempt at being optimized for code, no intellisense behaviors, no spell checking or word processor functionality, no WSISWYGness. Just the dumbest possible text editing window to paste things, scratch a few notes, open raw text, etc. I haven’t found the equivalent in OSX even their basic tools are too smart by half.

I use Sublime Text for this or vim, depending on where I am (in a terminal or not).

Vim is easy if you type vimtutor in the command line and follow the tutorial for the next 30 min. After that, it will always feel like a simple notepad, at least to me it did.

For actual coding I tend to use VS Code. I might give IntelliJ a try again if I can manage to get a free trial again.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by dharmab »

wcarss wrote: post #19
izolate wrote: post #15

> And it was most frustrating when they had like 100 columns or so. Having to change column 63 at line 58 is not something you do easily in Notepad++. Import to Excel was my way to go, but since the file was not a standard CSV file (e.g. also had sections like an .INI file) it was time consuming: first just select a subsection from the file, save to a different file, import to Excel, modify, paste back, etc. Suggesti…

As a longtime vim user, I don't see how vim makes going to the Nth logical column (for several values of N in different rows) in a large "CSV-like" file much easier. Navigating in general is easier, sure, but... do you have a trick to share perhaps?

EasyMotion makes it effortless.

https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by ab071c41 »

I've been looking for software to map relationships between my team's products (app servers) and their integrations.

E.g. server01 can go from 3.1 to version 4.0 since foo01 integrates with server01 and foo01 supports 3.1 and 4.0.

I have been poking around at graph databases for this, but I'm also looking for something better than wiki pages.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by fiftyacorn »

armagon wrote: post #33

I wish I had a way to do knowledge work but also use my body. Right now, for working purposes (as a software engineer), I'm a disembodied head that can move a pointer, type words, and voice chat. Our bodies were never designed to sit in chairs 8 hours a day for forty years. The very idea of needing to spend free time exercising just to keep your body from falling apart is, well, preposterous. (It's been a long time s…

I've found working with the laptop in my garden can help. The mix of air and standing seems to help

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by wsostt »

ab071c41 wrote: post #94

I've been looking for software to map relationships between my team's products (app servers) and their integrations. E.g. server01 can go from 3.1 to version 4.0 since foo01 integrates with server01 and foo01 supports 3.1 and 4.0. I have been poking around at graph databases for this, but I'm also looking for something better than wiki pages.

Yes! I worked at a well-known regional company about 15 years ago and we built one of these ourselves. It would track servers, software, packages, etc... You could quickly see which web servers were running which versions of .Net and then drill into the applications which had their own tagging to specific .Net versions. Then you'd have a clear picture of the opportunity/costs/consequences of upgrading the version on that machine.

I'm interested in this type of system for my current job and I can't find anything on the market.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by yumraj »

softwaredoug wrote: post #85

On OSX I miss notepad. The dumbest possible text editor. No cloud syncing of notes, no attempt at being optimized for code, no intellisense behaviors, no spell checking or word processor functionality, no WSISWYGness. Just the dumbest possible text editing window to paste things, scratch a few notes, open raw text, etc. I haven’t found the equivalent in OSX even their basic tools are too smart by half.

I use vscode for this.

The best feature is that it keeps unsaved files even after quits. I have an instance of vscode with about 80 unsaved documents till now. Hopefully vscode won’t introduce a bug in an update that will wipe these.

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by morjom »

motohagiography wrote: post #54

Maybe I haven't looked hard enough for these but off the top of my head: - A universal calendar I can merge across client accounts. As a consultant, I have customers in gsuite, o365, and my personal one and relationship management means manually synching my calendars between them. - A virtual machine for android phones to sandbox identities and apps into, as I'm not interested in letting a client's MDM near my BYOD m…

On that second point. I think you can achieve with androids work profile, Shelter[1], and a firewall app like Netguard[2]. I recently came across a guide[3] to FOSS your android and improve privacy, and it included this method.

[1]- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

[2]- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/

[3]- https://lemmy.ml/post/54596

Re: Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?

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Post by mssundaram »

morjom wrote: post #99
motohagiography wrote: post #54

Maybe I haven't looked hard enough for these but off the top of my head: - A universal calendar I can merge across client accounts. As a consultant, I have customers in gsuite, o365, and my personal one and relationship management means manually synching my calendars between them. - A virtual machine for android phones to sandbox identities and apps into, as I'm not interested in letting a client's MDM near my BYOD m…

On that second point. I think you can achieve with androids work profile, Shelter[1], and a firewall app like Netguard[2]. I recently came across a guide[3] to FOSS your android and improve privacy, and it included this method. [1]- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/ [2]- https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ [3]- https://lemmy.ml/post/54596

Wow, thanks for that guide! Super useful, I've been needing some guidance like this
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