Time-travel decision like rr and Pernosco. I’ve heard firsthand stories from developers that found and fixed rare race condition bugs in minutes instead of hours or days. https://pernos.co/
Ask HN: What technologies greatly improve the efficiency of development?
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#32Github Copilot and Actions.
Why would anyone downvote this? A good answer to this question in my opinion. Copilot has had a great impact on my efficiency, often for things I didn't even realize were time sinks.
Co-pilot is useful for mainstream languages/frameworks like PHP/Laravel, Python/Django but becomes less and less useful or effectively suggestive with less mainstream ones like Elixir/Phoenix.
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#34Good tests. We don't have fantastic tests at my current job, but we're working on it.
Noticing something broke in a place you didn't expect before it appears in production ends up being a massive time saver and anxiety reducer.
Good tests seem tricky, since you want a combination of flexibility and rigidity, which can be a tricky balancer, but well worth it if done right.
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#35Encouraging people -- and myself! -- to take walks and ponder, rest and get a little distance from the work. There's nothing quite so handy for understanding something as letting your mind work on it in the background while you take the air.
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#36Fzf for command line history fuzzy matching.
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#37Besides the techs mentioned in this thread, understanding what are the minimum features to build and understanding the people working in my team. What drives them, what they like, etc.
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#38Repl integrated into your IDE.
When you can write code, send it to a repl from your IDE and see the results inline with the code is a game changer.
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#39PHP For all the hate PHP gets, a massive positive of it is entire classes of development friction that just doesn’t exist for it. COMPILE: Slow compile times, nope - it’s interrupted & you can run the code instantly. DEVELOPMENT: Confusing and complex development tooling or middleware, nope - just SFTP a single file to your webroot. So the language / environment you pick to develop in can has massive impact on produc…
Isn't it the same for Python?
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#40I would say it's not so much about improving the efficiency of the team, but rather removing things that reduce the efficiency of the team, of which there are many.
For me it's Scrum. Every two weeks we have a full-day meeting with the entire team. In addition, every Thursday and Friday we have a meeting mid-morning of "analysis" (whole team) which means I can't get anything significant done beforehand, nor afterwards in the morning. That only leaves the afternoon, and I'm sort of a morning person, so most Thurs/Fri afternoons I don't get anything done either. I do want to get a lot done, but the company gets in my way, so what am I to do, I have to accept it.