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Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer? by wingerlang on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:33AM (#12273919)
Automation. My number one thing might be learning to use multiple cursors in Sublime, I probably jump into it 10 times a day to psuedo-automate text editing. I wrote of one example here: http://jontelang.com/blog/2016/06/22/sublime-efficiency.html

Another thing is, also automation, to use Hazel to automatically keep my temp files manageable. Basically, when I file is older than X days, move it to a "need review" folder. This mean that there is a steady but very very manageable flow of files to delete or move to their correct location. I also wrote about it here: http://jontelang.com/blog/2015/08/17/hazel-is-great.html. My Downloads folder have not been 1000s of files since I started with this.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer? by floSchr on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:09AM (#12274038)
Yes! I use a similar hazel workflow for screenshots. I save all Screenshots to ~/Pictures/Screenshots Screenshots older than 1 days get moved into a ./.old directory Screenshots older than 1 week in that backup directory get deleted.

Workflow: http://jmp.sh/QAEQSep

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Re:Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer? by ff_ on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:39AM (#12274134)
+1!

Instead of using Hazel I directly set an "rm -rf ~/Downloads/*" at every restart. This way I only save files when I really move them instead of having them pile up there.

Funny fact: at some point it was mounted in ram, but I couldn't download files larger than half of the ram. :D

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