Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
by Fellshard on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:15PM
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I've got a portrait monitor connected to a laptop, so I end up splitting the monitor's pane vertically.
I treat each workspace as dedicated for a specific purpose - Dev, Browsing, Chat, etc. That gives me quick mnemonics to hop to each space: MOD+1, MOD+2, MOD+3, ...
Within my Dev workspace, I use a tabbed pane for top-level organization: browsers (stacked), IDE, terminal, Emacs (magit + org), etc. This keeps my focus on that space when doing dev, and away from the laptop monitor, which is only occasionally useful as a reference.
I'll occasionally stack a terminal beneath my IDE if the current task requires it, e.g. to test a deployment or a project task.
I treat each workspace as dedicated for a specific purpose - Dev, Browsing, Chat, etc. That gives me quick mnemonics to hop to each space: MOD+1, MOD+2, MOD+3, ...
Within my Dev workspace, I use a tabbed pane for top-level organization: browsers (stacked), IDE, terminal, Emacs (magit + org), etc. This keeps my focus on that space when doing dev, and away from the laptop monitor, which is only occasionally useful as a reference.
I'll occasionally stack a terminal beneath my IDE if the current task requires it, e.g. to test a deployment or a project task.