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Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity

11 points by mraza007 6y ago

Dear Developers, What are some tools or quick hacks that you use when writing software which makes you productive. Whether it can be configuring shell,text editors and etc

FR10 6y ago
Internal: Learning Vim, (some) task automation through scripts, learning to write good commits/comments/tests/tags (TODO:, BUG:, REFACTOR:), doing code reviews. External: Taking breaks (brew coffee, walk around), sleep well.
- mraza007 6y ago
  Nice, I am also investing time into learn more about vim, btw have you tried kakoune editor its very similar to vim and provides auto suggestion feature
gin_morphin 6y ago
- Tools: Reveal (https://revealapp.com/ https://revealapp.com/) for dealing with app's UI, Sublime (https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://www.sublimetext.com/) for text editors, Paw (https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/) for making API calls, Proxyman (https://proxyman.io/ https://proxyman.io/) for manipulating requests/responses when debugging - Quick hacks: Moya library (https://github.com/Moya/Moya https://github.com/Moya/Moya) for categorizing API route, Diff Algorithm for reloading huge UITableView efficiently - Others: Have a dog and sleep well :)
- mraza007 6y ago
  Thanks for mentioning API tools. By the way I have been heavily using sublime text but now I am investing some time to learn vim since I want to get into DevOps eventually
theSealedTanker 6y ago
vim for editing, emacs org mode for scheduling, tracking habits, tasks, tracking my time spent on tasks and taking notes
- a3n 6y ago
  Wait - can you use org mode without knowing emacs as much as a vim user knows vim? Like, maybe, knowing the default shell line editing keystrokes?
- mraza007 6y ago
  hey I am just curious how long have you been a vim user
emrox 6y ago
- Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash) for browsing documentation locally (often faster than searching the web when you know what you are looking for), alternative: https://devdocs.io https://devdocs.io (works in browser), Zeal (https://zealdocs.org https://zealdocs.org, for Windows & Linux) - Sublime Merge for solving merge conflicts and committing individual lines (I'm for command line when working with Git, but `git add -p` is often frustrating, with Sublime Merge it's very easy once you got used to the tool)
- mraza007 6y ago
  Really, I really like how documentations have become easily accessible offline. Hows your experience has been with Sublime Merge
welder 6y ago
Find the "Awesome-X" list for all the stuff you use on GitHub. Also, use https://wakatime.com https://wakatime.com to measure the time you spend coding.

11 points by mraza007 6y ago

Dear Developers, What are some tools or quick hacks that you use when writing software which makes you productive. Whether it can be configuring shell,text editors and etc

FR10 6y ago

Internal: Learning Vim, (some) task automation through scripts, learning to write good commits/comments/tests/tags (TODO:, BUG:, REFACTOR:), doing code reviews. External: Taking breaks (brew coffee, walk around), sleep well.

mraza007 6y ago
Nice, I am also investing time into learn more about vim, btw have you tried kakoune editor its very similar to vim and provides auto suggestion feature

gin_morphin 6y ago

- Tools: Reveal (https://revealapp.com/ https://revealapp.com/) for dealing with app's UI, Sublime (https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://www.sublimetext.com/) for text editors, Paw (https://paw.cloud/ https://paw.cloud/) for making API calls, Proxyman (https://proxyman.io/ https://proxyman.io/) for manipulating requests/responses when debugging - Quick hacks: Moya library (https://github.com/Moya/Moya https://github.com/Moya/Moya) for categorizing API route, Diff Algorithm for reloading huge UITableView efficiently - Others: Have a dog and sleep well :)

mraza007 6y ago
Thanks for mentioning API tools. By the way I have been heavily using sublime text but now I am investing some time to learn vim since I want to get into DevOps eventually

theSealedTanker 6y ago

vim for editing, emacs org mode for scheduling, tracking habits, tasks, tracking my time spent on tasks and taking notes

a3n 6y ago
Wait - can you use org mode without knowing emacs as much as a vim user knows vim? Like, maybe, knowing the default shell line editing keystrokes?
mraza007 6y ago
hey I am just curious how long have you been a vim user

emrox 6y ago

- Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash) for browsing documentation locally (often faster than searching the web when you know what you are looking for), alternative: https://devdocs.io https://devdocs.io (works in browser), Zeal (https://zealdocs.org https://zealdocs.org, for Windows & Linux) - Sublime Merge for solving merge conflicts and committing individual lines (I'm for command line when working with Git, but `git add -p` is often frustrating, with Sublime Merge it's very easy once you got used to the tool)

mraza007 6y ago
Really, I really like how documentations have become easily accessible offline. Hows your experience has been with Sublime Merge

welder 6y ago

Find the "Awesome-X" list for all the stuff you use on GitHub. Also, use https://wakatime.com https://wakatime.com to measure the time you spend coding.