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Ask HN: What are the most used productivity tools in your tech job?

17 points by calpas 9y ago

yen223 9y ago
Regex, because most of our work involves manipulating text.
- calpas 9y ago
  so your basic stack are some regex? sounds interesting ..
roryisok 9y ago
Visual Studio 2015, Vscode, git, SQL Management Studio, Remote Desktop and Vivaldi
- calpas 9y ago
  Cool, i´m using vivaldi too. Pretty good browser by the way.
parvatzar 9y ago
Winmerge , notepad++, JIRA,ServiceNow
- abijango 9y ago
  I have seriously never heard someone say ServiceNow is productive :)
richardknop 9y ago
Command line, git, github, atom, chrome console.
itamarst 9y ago
Figuring out goals, identifying underlying problems, coming up with efficient solutions, focusing on the critical path... A so-called "productivity tool" will save you 15 minutes a day. Asking questions and thinking will save you weeks of work. More on productivity here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/
bsvalley 9y ago
Our coffee machine
- itamarst 9y ago
  Getting a full night's sleep is better than stimulants, but well-played nonetheless.
  - spcelzrd 9y ago
    For some definitions of "better"
  - cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
    Why not both? I'm more productive with a full night's sleep and a cup of coffee than either alone.
tmaly 9y ago
I have a Do Not Disturb button on my phone that allows the phone to ring once then it goes directly to voicemail. That is probably my number one productivity tool. The next most important tool is moving everyone to an established process where all requests/bugs/tasks have to come through a single channel. In this case, the channel is Jira for me. Before this, things could come from many different channels. Having things all in one place ensures things do not fall through the cracks. It gives you the ability to see a big picture view of what is going on. For smaller teams, it might not make sense to use something big like Jira, but none the less, having a process in place really helps.
ameister14 9y ago
Basecamp and Slack are probably the most used.
deleted 9y ago
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TurboHaskal 9y ago
If you are asking for things that increase my productivity: - Computing power of course. - magit: I cannot imagine using git without it. This and org-mode are still the reasons why I use Emacs. - IntelliJ: My younger, stupid self always felt proud of using spartan tools (spartan, as in "emacs is too bloated and the only thing I need are ed or mg and how dare you using a mouse"). Fortunately I grew up and abandoned all sort of tribalistic or elitist thoughts. IDEs are an invaluable tool and I feel sorry for the suckers that are still trapped on the "programmers that use IDEs are inherently stupid" narrative. - TOAD SQL & Winmerge: I don't work with Windows anymore but miss these two daily. Let me know if you know of tools that are similar for macOS / Linux. - cwm: I rarely use it anymore as I don't boot my OpenBSD box as much as I'd like but it has this thing where you press M-/ (I think?) so you can query windows by name. It's really useful. So are groups. - Ctrl-up & Ctrl-down in macOS. Win+tab in Windows. - Windowmaker's Dockapps. I miss those. - ACME: You don't know what you're talking about when you say "UNIX as IDE" if you haven't tried this. - vi keybindings. - A internal wiki: 1/4 of my time is spent writing or reading it.
wikiwatchme 9y ago
Sublime Text, iTerm2, DBeaver, MacDown, TaskWarrior
kusmi 9y ago
Five years into emacs and I'm only now getting into org-mode. I have about 6k lines of bash code which tangles into a series of startup scripts I use to bring a fresh boot system into production (that includes everything from db config, to raid setup). There is a block of code on top that holds all the configuration details which instructs which blocks to tangle, and to which destination. And since it's org mode, all the code is annotated and exports to HTML and PDF format documentation. The best part, in my project folder where I used to keep these things, now sits one org file.
mod 9y ago
tmux, vim

17 points by calpas 9y ago

yen223 9y ago

Regex, because most of our work involves manipulating text.

calpas 9y ago
so your basic stack are some regex? sounds interesting ..

roryisok 9y ago

Visual Studio 2015, Vscode, git, SQL Management Studio, Remote Desktop and Vivaldi

calpas 9y ago
Cool, i´m using vivaldi too. Pretty good browser by the way.

parvatzar 9y ago

Winmerge , notepad++, JIRA,ServiceNow

abijango 9y ago
I have seriously never heard someone say ServiceNow is productive :)

richardknop 9y ago

Command line, git, github, atom, chrome console.

itamarst 9y ago

Figuring out goals, identifying underlying problems, coming up with efficient solutions, focusing on the critical path... A so-called "productivity tool" will save you 15 minutes a day. Asking questions and thinking will save you weeks of work. More on productivity here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/ https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/08/25/the-01x-programmer/

bsvalley 9y ago

Our coffee machine

itamarst 9y ago
Getting a full night's sleep is better than stimulants, but well-played nonetheless.
- spcelzrd 9y ago
  For some definitions of "better"
- cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
  Why not both? I'm more productive with a full night's sleep and a cup of coffee than either alone.

tmaly 9y ago

I have a Do Not Disturb button on my phone that allows the phone to ring once then it goes directly to voicemail. That is probably my number one productivity tool. The next most important tool is moving everyone to an established process where all requests/bugs/tasks have to come through a single channel. In this case, the channel is Jira for me. Before this, things could come from many different channels. Having things all in one place ensures things do not fall through the cracks. It gives you the ability to see a big picture view of what is going on. For smaller teams, it might not make sense to use something big like Jira, but none the less, having a process in place really helps.

ameister14 9y ago

Basecamp and Slack are probably the most used.

deleted 9y ago

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TurboHaskal 9y ago

If you are asking for things that increase my productivity: - Computing power of course. - magit: I cannot imagine using git without it. This and org-mode are still the reasons why I use Emacs. - IntelliJ: My younger, stupid self always felt proud of using spartan tools (spartan, as in "emacs is too bloated and the only thing I need are ed or mg and how dare you using a mouse"). Fortunately I grew up and abandoned all sort of tribalistic or elitist thoughts. IDEs are an invaluable tool and I feel sorry for the suckers that are still trapped on the "programmers that use IDEs are inherently stupid" narrative. - TOAD SQL & Winmerge: I don't work with Windows anymore but miss these two daily. Let me know if you know of tools that are similar for macOS / Linux. - cwm: I rarely use it anymore as I don't boot my OpenBSD box as much as I'd like but it has this thing where you press M-/ (I think?) so you can query windows by name. It's really useful. So are groups. - Ctrl-up & Ctrl-down in macOS. Win+tab in Windows. - Windowmaker's Dockapps. I miss those. - ACME: You don't know what you're talking about when you say "UNIX as IDE" if you haven't tried this. - vi keybindings. - A internal wiki: 1/4 of my time is spent writing or reading it.

wikiwatchme 9y ago

Sublime Text, iTerm2, DBeaver, MacDown, TaskWarrior

kusmi 9y ago

Five years into emacs and I'm only now getting into org-mode. I have about 6k lines of bash code which tangles into a series of startup scripts I use to bring a fresh boot system into production (that includes everything from db config, to raid setup). There is a block of code on top that holds all the configuration details which instructs which blocks to tangle, and to which destination. And since it's org mode, all the code is annotated and exports to HTML and PDF format documentation. The best part, in my project folder where I used to keep these things, now sits one org file.

mod 9y ago

tmux, vim