Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by notduncansmith on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:27PM (#8056576)

A Mac app called Alfred has saved me countless hours. It comes with a clipboard manager (extremely useful), and the ability to create custom workflows/hotkeys, which I use to switch back and forth between Skype, Chrome, and Sublime. iTerm2 already has a hotkey feature built in, but if it didn't I'd have made one (takes <30 seconds).

Following Gary Bernhardt's advice, mapping Caps Lock to a modifier key (he recommends Control I think, I mapped it to Alt) has been awesome.

Aliasing common Git commands to 2-3 letter commands has been nice. gc -> git commit, gaa -> git add --all, gpom -> git push origin master, etc.

Vimium for Chrome is nice if you're used to Vim keybindings for navigating.

hop is a command-line tool for jumping to directories (or SSH'ing into servers). Immensely valuable.

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by philip1209 on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:28PM (#8056579)

We have an internal wiki page with custom alfred formulas for our company.

"customer <email>"

"domain <domain>"

"logs <logs>""

It makes life for engineers, support, and sales much more efficient.

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by notduncansmith on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:32PM (#8056587)

I wish there were enough Mac users at our company to make this worthwhile. Is your whole team on OS X?

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by philip1209 on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:57PM (#8056635)

No, but in general company laptops are macbooks. They play nicely with virtualized operating systems, SSHing into *nix servers, windows via bootcamp, etc.

The Alfred formulas are shared more out of courtesy than a company need.

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by alialkhatib on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:30PM (#8056582)

I actually feel like Vimium is nice even if you're not familiar with Vim. Or that was my experience. And when I later made a conscious effort to learn Vim's commands and use it more frequently, the navigation controls I had learned in Vimium made the learning curve less steep than I think it typically is for people first starting out.

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by ntonozzi on Friday July 18, 2014 @11:42PM (#8056605)

Where can I find hop?

All my search results talk about traceroutes.

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by IbJacked on Saturday July 19, 2014 @12:37AM (#8056707)

It looks like it might be this one: https://github.com/Cue/hop

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by notduncansmith on Saturday July 19, 2014 @01:07AM (#8056759)

That's the one indeed. Sorry for not providing a link!

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Re:Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier? by lenage on Saturday July 19, 2014 @12:56AM (#8056737)

I also recommend autojump, it make cd directories easier

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