Curious to find those hidden gems that boost productivity or make dev work more efficient. Mired in my own processes and need a change/shift. I'm hoping there's still some non-AI stuff out there that's delightful to use (in a nerdy sense).
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#2gitk and git gui
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#3CUE and Dagger, though they are talked about by more than nobody
They are central to my personal dev tool
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#4I've been using ack for a very long time, maybe 15 years.
It's like grep but faster and easier to use. I still use it all the time, even in the era of Claude.
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#5A VS Code/Visual Studio extension for creating mind maps with nodes linked to code called Code Mind Map.
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#6I've been using ack for a very long time, maybe 15 years. It's like grep but faster and easier to use. I still use it all the time, even in the era of Claude. https://beyondgrep.com/
and then ag (silver surfer) and then rg (ripgrep).
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#7Tilix + shell scripts to create a Tilix session, open windows inside Tilix and run commands, so that I can immediately create a session to debug say Linux kernel development -- 3 windows, one for gdb, one for compiling and running, and one for minicom.
I'm sure Tmux can do it, but I really hate the Ctrl+B thing. Alt + Arrow keys are way more intuitive.
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#8I love deepwiki for understanding deep code architectures: https://deepwiki.com/
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#10For me it has to be mock. With it I can create and automate APIs easily.