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Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2018 edition

62 points by pyeu 8y ago

Inspired by https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ What are the tools and services you use?

philipkiely 8y ago
I'm a student and hobbyist developer (multiple current solo and team projects) Coding/Projects: * GitHub Pages for static content (Highly Recommend) * AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for dynamic Content * Other AWS Services like SNS, Pinpoint * Hover for domain names and associated things (Highly Recommend) * Django, Python, Vanilla JS, Bootstrap, Vanilla CSS, HTML for web apps * Native apps in Swift (Xcode) , Java (Android Studio) * Atom for editing, terminal, git via GitHub and VSTS (now Azure Devops) * Quantopian for trading algorithms General: * Quiver for notes * Keyboard Maestro for automation * OmniFocus for task management (Highly Recommend) * Good old Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) for their intended purpose Hardware: * 2015 Macbook Pro (dual core i5 / 16G DDR3 RAM / 512G aftermarket SSD) (OSX pretty obvious from software list) * 28" fairly low resolution BenQ monitor * WASD Keyboard w/ Cherry MX Clear (Highly Recommend) * Logitech MX Master 2S (Highly Recommend) * Standing Desk: A table with monitor, computer, peripherals on cardboard boxes of various sizes (Highly Recommend)
a-saleh 8y ago
QA engineer turned backend developer this year: Gear: * Thinkpad running Fedora * Blackberry key-one with too many things installed in termux :) Personal: * Note-taking in org-mode, jupyter-notebook, trello or google-docs (still searching for best organization system) * Having a shared calendar with my wife is awesome :D Work: * Gitlab for code-hosting, issue-tracking and CI building * GCE, kubernetes for deployment * Python flask apps for legacy-code * Golang for new services, utilizing the embedded go mod for dependencies * Mostly written in Visual Studio Code (vim in terminal) (probably should switch to goland and pycharm?) * Slack and Zoom for most of the communication * Google-docs for collaborative roadmaps/specifications Previous work: * Jenkins for CI and process automation (sadly, missed the boat on Jenkin X, the new developments look really interesting) * Github for code-hosting * OpenShift for deployment * Golang and NodeJS for programming projects * So many chat-rooms (Slack, Mattermost, Rocket.chat, IRC) * Blue-jeans for calls * Trello and Google-docs for written collaboration For pet projects (that I don't really get to often enough :) - namecheap for domains - nicola for static blog - aws for static hosting, but migrating to netlify - Jupyter or Emacs org-mode for writing - Learning Purescript and Ocaml to return to my pet-projects I really like the features of these functional languages, Purescript has lot of capabilities for code-generation (i.e. simple-json parses json from type-definition) and I like type-directed search [1] Ocaml on the other hand seems to me the language Golang should have been, practical, fast, not overdoing it on language features. (I still like golang for the ecosystem, and practicality, but from the language design standpoint, I have the usual gripes of a wanna-be functional programmer, I'd really like generics and sum-types and libraries that use them) Moreover, I can compile ocaml on my blackberry, that means I can learn it while commuting :) [1] https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016/blob/master/23.markdown https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016/blob/mas...
dankohn1 8y ago
Here are my recommendations for business tools (as opposed to development tools) including things like Grammarly, Calendly, and Inoreader: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cA11-1vm6xVljPm3hrnKk33yjt2CWjO6N0xVPEoRBZo/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cA11-1vm6xVljPm3hrnKk33y...
niceperson 8y ago
neoVim.
pyeu 8y ago
Steve Blank has curated a great list of the tools, available here - https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ I would be interested in what your favorite startup tools?
NinjaX 8y ago
HN - latest technology updates and discussion Domainr - finding domain Namecheap - registering domain name Digital Ocean and Heroku for hosting Github Django and flask Bootstrap
exabrial 8y ago
* Gitlab and CI * Sonar basic static analysis * Maven * one-jar, then use jdeb to package it up, scp to a freight server for debian repo hosting * TICK Stack for prod monitoring * Graylog for log keeping
pizza 8y ago
Off the top of my head, the tools I used heavily for the last project I made are: digitalocean ubuntu 18.04 zsh byobu tmux nvim nginx let's encrypt certbot gunicorn redis postgresql/postgis django sentry.io celery Considering how this is all off the top of my head, I think now would be a good time for me to consider learning this reproducible environment stuff (docker/ansible/etc)
rhn_mk1 8y ago
Linux. SSH, Qt, QtCreator, Geany, pluma, vim. Git, GitLab, and especially its CI. Ansible, docker, Debian. GCC, Python, Rust. Cargo, CMake, meson. GPG. BusPirate, KiCAD. I think these cover at least 70% of my productive non-terminal time.
noir_lord 8y ago
Intellij for... well almost everything code related. VS Code with a bunch of plugins and the excellent Journal plugin. Fedora for the OS, Debian on servers. Linux command line extensively. Languages - PHP, Java, C#, Python, JS, TypeScript and some others, some node stuff, webpack. Other dev tools, Vagrant, Ansible For long form writing the (genuinely brilliant) https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ (though you'll immediately want to change the default style/theme). Servers are either in-house running Debian or on linode running Debian or Ubuntu LTS. Desktop is Fedora/cinnamon. Desktop at work 1700X/32GB DDR4, 2x2560x1440 dells, Desktop at home 2700X/64GB DDR4/RTX2080 with a 4K 27" UG69. Thinkpad is a T470P (i7700-HQ, 32GB RAM, 2560x1440, nvme option). Can't think of anything else.
wiglaf1979 8y ago
* Vagrant/Terraform/Pretty much all of Hashicorp's stuff. * Ubuntu with an occasional centos instance * Prometheus/Jaeger because I got tired of not knowing why/when stuff broke. * Visual Studio Code * Azure * Yaml/markdown plugins in VSCode because i got tired of doing things by hand. * Gitlab
greenleafjacob 8y ago
* Heroku * Rails * HostedGraphite * git.sr.ht * PostgreSQL * Redis * Sidekiq
wanghq 8y ago
Looking for someone to take over hackertoolbox.com which was inspired by the Tools of the trade post on HN.
anujsharmax 8y ago
Pretty much Emacs (Spacemacs specifically) for anything once the OS boots up.
miguelrochefort 8y ago
HARDWARE Phone: Xiaomi Mi Max 3 (4GB memory, 64GB storage) Laptop: Teclast F5 (8GB memory, 128GB storage) Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage Mouse: Logitech Trackman Cordless Optical SOFTWARE OS: Windows 10 IDE: Visual Studio Community, VS Code Languages: C#, JavaScript Frameworks: Xamarin, Uno Source control: Git Browser: Google Chrome SERVICES VoIP: https://voip.ms https://voip.ms Domains: https://domains.google.com https://domains.google.com
- person_of_color 8y ago
  What is Teclast?
badsavage 8y ago
vim clojure
rayalez 8y ago
Hacker News Tools of the Trade: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
sgillen 8y ago
Python, C++, Matlab Jupyter lab, Matlab, Emacs Git, Gitlab, Bash, Ssh, Tmux Mendeley, Web browser, Laptop

62 points by pyeu 8y ago

Inspired by https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ What are the tools and services you use?

I'm a student and hobbyist developer (multiple current solo and team projects) Coding/Projects: * GitHub Pages for static content (Highly Recommend) * AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for dynamic Content * Other AWS Services like SNS, Pinpoint * Hover for domain names and associated things (Highly Recommend) * Django, Python, Vanilla JS, Bootstrap, Vanilla CSS, HTML for web apps * Native apps in Swift (Xcode) , Java (Android Studio) * Atom for editing, terminal, git via GitHub and VSTS (now Azure Devops) * Quantopian for trading algorithms General: * Quiver for notes * Keyboard Maestro for automation * OmniFocus for task management (Highly Recommend) * Good old Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) for their intended purpose Hardware: * 2015 Macbook Pro (dual core i5 / 16G DDR3 RAM / 512G aftermarket SSD) (OSX pretty obvious from software list) * 28" fairly low resolution BenQ monitor * WASD Keyboard w/ Cherry MX Clear (Highly Recommend) * Logitech MX Master 2S (Highly Recommend) * Standing Desk: A table with monitor, computer, peripherals on cardboard boxes of various sizes (Highly Recommend)

a-saleh 8y ago

QA engineer turned backend developer this year: Gear: * Thinkpad running Fedora * Blackberry key-one with too many things installed in termux :) Personal: * Note-taking in org-mode, jupyter-notebook, trello or google-docs (still searching for best organization system) * Having a shared calendar with my wife is awesome :D Work: * Gitlab for code-hosting, issue-tracking and CI building * GCE, kubernetes for deployment * Python flask apps for legacy-code * Golang for new services, utilizing the embedded go mod for dependencies * Mostly written in Visual Studio Code (vim in terminal) (probably should switch to goland and pycharm?) * Slack and Zoom for most of the communication * Google-docs for collaborative roadmaps/specifications Previous work: * Jenkins for CI and process automation (sadly, missed the boat on Jenkin X, the new developments look really interesting) * Github for code-hosting * OpenShift for deployment * Golang and NodeJS for programming projects * So many chat-rooms (Slack, Mattermost, Rocket.chat, IRC) * Blue-jeans for calls * Trello and Google-docs for written collaboration For pet projects (that I don't really get to often enough :) - namecheap for domains - nicola for static blog - aws for static hosting, but migrating to netlify - Jupyter or Emacs org-mode for writing - Learning Purescript and Ocaml to return to my pet-projects I really like the features of these functional languages, Purescript has lot of capabilities for code-generation (i.e. simple-json parses json from type-definition) and I like type-directed search [1] Ocaml on the other hand seems to me the language Golang should have been, practical, fast, not overdoing it on language features. (I still like golang for the ecosystem, and practicality, but from the language design standpoint, I have the usual gripes of a wanna-be functional programmer, I'd really like generics and sum-types and libraries that use them) Moreover, I can compile ocaml on my blackberry, that means I can learn it while commuting :) [1] https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016/blob/master/23.markdown https://github.com/paf31/24-days-of-purescript-2016/blob/mas...

dankohn1 8y ago

Here are my recommendations for business tools (as opposed to development tools) including things like Grammarly, Calendly, and Inoreader: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cA11-1vm6xVljPm3hrnKk33yjt2CWjO6N0xVPEoRBZo/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cA11-1vm6xVljPm3hrnKk33y...

niceperson 8y ago

neoVim.

pyeu 8y ago

Steve Blank has curated a great list of the tools, available here - https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ https://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/ I would be interested in what your favorite startup tools?

NinjaX 8y ago

HN - latest technology updates and discussion Domainr - finding domain Namecheap - registering domain name Digital Ocean and Heroku for hosting Github Django and flask Bootstrap

exabrial 8y ago

* Gitlab and CI * Sonar basic static analysis * Maven * one-jar, then use jdeb to package it up, scp to a freight server for debian repo hosting * TICK Stack for prod monitoring * Graylog for log keeping

pizza 8y ago

Off the top of my head, the tools I used heavily for the last project I made are: digitalocean ubuntu 18.04 zsh byobu tmux nvim nginx let's encrypt certbot gunicorn redis postgresql/postgis django sentry.io celery Considering how this is all off the top of my head, I think now would be a good time for me to consider learning this reproducible environment stuff (docker/ansible/etc)

rhn_mk1 8y ago

Linux. SSH, Qt, QtCreator, Geany, pluma, vim. Git, GitLab, and especially its CI. Ansible, docker, Debian. GCC, Python, Rust. Cargo, CMake, meson. GPG. BusPirate, KiCAD. I think these cover at least 70% of my productive non-terminal time.

noir_lord 8y ago

Intellij for... well almost everything code related. VS Code with a bunch of plugins and the excellent Journal plugin. Fedora for the OS, Debian on servers. Linux command line extensively. Languages - PHP, Java, C#, Python, JS, TypeScript and some others, some node stuff, webpack. Other dev tools, Vagrant, Ansible For long form writing the (genuinely brilliant) https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ (though you'll immediately want to change the default style/theme). Servers are either in-house running Debian or on linode running Debian or Ubuntu LTS. Desktop is Fedora/cinnamon. Desktop at work 1700X/32GB DDR4, 2x2560x1440 dells, Desktop at home 2700X/64GB DDR4/RTX2080 with a 4K 27" UG69. Thinkpad is a T470P (i7700-HQ, 32GB RAM, 2560x1440, nvme option). Can't think of anything else.

wiglaf1979 8y ago

* Vagrant/Terraform/Pretty much all of Hashicorp's stuff. * Ubuntu with an occasional centos instance * Prometheus/Jaeger because I got tired of not knowing why/when stuff broke. * Visual Studio Code * Azure * Yaml/markdown plugins in VSCode because i got tired of doing things by hand. * Gitlab

greenleafjacob 8y ago

* Heroku * Rails * HostedGraphite * git.sr.ht * PostgreSQL * Redis * Sidekiq

wanghq 8y ago

Looking for someone to take over hackertoolbox.com which was inspired by the Tools of the trade post on HN.

anujsharmax 8y ago

Pretty much Emacs (Spacemacs specifically) for anything once the OS boots up.

miguelrochefort 8y ago

HARDWARE Phone: Xiaomi Mi Max 3 (4GB memory, 64GB storage) Laptop: Teclast F5 (8GB memory, 128GB storage) Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage Mouse: Logitech Trackman Cordless Optical SOFTWARE OS: Windows 10 IDE: Visual Studio Community, VS Code Languages: C#, JavaScript Frameworks: Xamarin, Uno Source control: Git Browser: Google Chrome SERVICES VoIP: https://voip.ms https://voip.ms Domains: https://domains.google.com https://domains.google.com

person_of_color 8y ago
What is Teclast?

badsavage 8y ago

vim clojure

rayalez 8y ago

Hacker News Tools of the Trade: https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade https://github.com/cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade

sgillen 8y ago

Python, C++, Matlab Jupyter lab, Matlab, Emacs Git, Gitlab, Bash, Ssh, Tmux Mendeley, Web browser, Laptop