Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity

Posted by mraza007 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @08:48PM
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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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by gin_morphin on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:38PM (#24683801)

- Tools: Reveal (https://revealapp.com/) for dealing with app's UI, Sublime (https://www.sublimetext.com/) for text editors, Paw (https://paw.cloud/) for making API calls, Proxyman (https://proxyman.io/) for manipulating requests/responses when debugging

- Quick hacks: Moya library (https://github.com/Moya/Moya) for categorizing API route, Diff Algorithm for reloading huge UITableView efficiently

- Others: Have a dog and sleep well :)

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by mraza007 on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:55PM (#24690776)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by emrox on Monday October 05, 2020 @06:23AM (#24686283)

- 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 (works in browser), Zeal (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)

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by mraza007 on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:56PM (#24690790)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by welder on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:45PM (#24691276)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by FR10 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:16PM (#24683690)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by mraza007 on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:57PM (#24690803)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by theSealedTanker on Sunday October 04, 2020 @09:57PM (#24683881)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by a3n on Sunday October 04, 2020 @11:52PM (#24684417)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Developers tools that enhances your productivity by mraza007 on Monday October 05, 2020 @02:57PM (#24690805)

hey I am just curious how long have you been a vim user

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