Resealable sandwich bags. I use them to portion food, either raw or cooked, and freeze. It means even if I'm working 50+ hours this week I can cook a couple of meals on Sunday and be sorted for the week. It also means that, since I live communally but cook by myself, I don't have to eat the same meal for four days in a row.
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#321. Synergy I use Synergy to use my netbook's keyboard and touchpad for my workstation. I just zoom everything up on the workstation and lay back on the bed and code. Very cool. Bash alias on both systems is "synergize" The next thing that I am going to do is switch the server and client roles automatically so that when I am using the workstation I would be able to control my netbook. 2. Tmux I ssh to the workstation…
Related to #7, I use a shell alias to open vim with three splits:
alias wl="vim -o $HOME/worklog/{todo,progress,done}"
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#33I can't recommend LastPass enough. Also, PIA for VPN. I put a little cash and my credit card in my phone case so that I have only one thing to carry and always have money on me. I really liked f.lux when I used windows, if only I had a decent replacement for ChromeOS.
I really want to like LastPass, but I can't get over all of my passwords being stored on someone elses server. Doesn't that seem like a terrible security risk?
The data is decrypted client side only. The server only stores an encrypted version that you send via SSL.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does it compare to just using git grep?
It works outside of git repositories and is faster than grep or awk.
Especially helpful in emacs with projectile (which has a function projectile-ag). Create a quick binding to locate all the FIXMES and feel free to experiment. Maybe it should also open file and mark the lines in a new frame for ultimate bug squashing...
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#351. Synergy I use Synergy to use my netbook's keyboard and touchpad for my workstation. I just zoom everything up on the workstation and lay back on the bed and code. Very cool. Bash alias on both systems is "synergize" The next thing that I am going to do is switch the server and client roles automatically so that when I am using the workstation I would be able to control my netbook. 2. Tmux I ssh to the workstation…
Give Planleaf a shot for (7). I use it to track everything. Just send an email to tasks@planleaf.com with a blank subject line and enter your tasks starting with a dash in the body. It will append to a personal todo list. Rinse and repeat. It sends awesome daily digests on all my tasks :)
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#36echo 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com >> /etc/hosts
For those using Windows, the file is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
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#37My shirt rack has three "zones". Clean clothes go in zone 1. When I take out a shirt, I put a special color hanger in its place. At night I hang up my shirt in the next zone, or chuck it in the hamper as appropriate. My memory for little stuff sucks, so this makes it easy to wear each one three times.
or wear a clean shirt every day.
Just sayin.
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#38My shirt rack has three "zones". Clean clothes go in zone 1. When I take out a shirt, I put a special color hanger in its place. At night I hang up my shirt in the next zone, or chuck it in the hamper as appropriate. My memory for little stuff sucks, so this makes it easy to wear each one three times.
that's kinda gross! what's so hard about wearing clean clothes?
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#39My credit card details are saved in my Gmail account because when I want to buy something online my wallet is usually in another room
I feel the risk is low, I trust google enough and there's really no risk as a cardholder anyway
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#40A Mac app called Alfred has saved me countless hours. It comes with a clipboard manager (extremely useful), and the ability to create custom workflows/hotkeys, which I use to switch back and forth between Skype, Chrome, and Sublime. iTerm2 already has a hotkey feature built in, but if it didn't I'd have made one (takes Following Gary Bernhardt's advice, mapping Caps Lock to a modifier key (he recommends Control I thi…
Where can I find hop? All my search results talk about traceroutes.
It looks like it might be this one: https://github.com/Cue/hop