Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by gitgud on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:09AM (#22855096)

I think I've used a very similar one called LazyDocker. But after a while I found that it wasn't that useful, and I don't like seeing the "donate" button in my face all day (call me old-fashioned).

The true power of CLI apps comes from "alias" commands that you build up yourself. The following commands are great examples of this:

    alias docker-kill-all='docker kill `docker ps -aq`'
    alias docker-rm-all='docker rm `docker ps -aq`'

After a while I've learnt that a gui or cli-gui can never compose as well as the terminal can...

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by williamdclt on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:44PM (#22858041)

Lazydocker is made by the same guy yes! I don't find it as useful though.

> The true power of CLI apps comes from "alias" commands that you build up yourself

I usually agree. I spent way too many hours making aliases and I'm very proficient at it. But sometimes there's something like lazygit which does everything my aliases did, but slightly better as it gives me, for example, line-by-line staging and vim keybindings.

It is true that it does not compose, but I can still (and do) use the command line. It's just a nice increase of productivity in 90% of the cases (for me!)

Note: I'm not related to the lazygit project in any way, just very satisfied with it

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