I always like learning about new tools and never know what I'm missing out on. Share some tools you've recently started using.
Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#2It's kinda silly, but I like "frhed" for Windows. It's a small fast hex editor. I tried more advanced editors but found myself going back to frhed because it opens instantly and never complains, it just opens any file and lets me get to work.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/
On a similar note I also use Notepad2 which hasn't been updated in years, but is a no-BS upgrade from Notepad that also will open just about anything very quickly. I use it more than Notepad++ because of the balance between simplicity and function, and it never gives me popups to update.
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#3Lima - pretty smooth way to develop on a linux vm on macOS. I connect it via SSH to VS code, and performs quite well on M1/M2 MacBooks.
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#4It's kinda silly, but I like "frhed" for Windows. It's a small fast hex editor. I tried more advanced editors but found myself going back to frhed because it opens instantly and never complains, it just opens any file and lets me get to work. https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/ On a similar note I also use Notepad2 which hasn't been updated in years, but is a no-BS upgrade from Notepad that also will open just ab…
Notepad2 is a classic.
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#5Lima - pretty smooth way to develop on a linux vm on macOS. I connect it via SSH to VS code, and performs quite well on M1/M2 MacBooks.
How does Lima compare to something like Docker Desktop?
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#6I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#7I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.
How is this better than using git?
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#8I have been poring over a large amount of data for debugging purposes recently and discovered “facets” which provides a quick and easy way to compare and explore datasets.
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#9I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.
How is this better than using git?
chezmoi actually uses git to manage the dotfiles, see https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/setup/#use-a-hosted-repo-t....
Re: Ask HN: What's a new developer tool you recently started using?
#10Dash - An offline documentation browser for MacOS. These days, I found that online searches is a bit wasteful–I never have time to configure specific site- search in Alfred. Kinda useful for languages like Go, Common Lisp and Clojure.
VMs - Specifically with Parallels Desktop. I'm a bit fed up with MacOS packagers. I prefer having a small VM, where things are at least consistent. And no risks of NPM contaminations.