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The slightly weird tools on my machine

Adam Brandizzi on March 15, 2017

I don't use anything really obscure: most of my favorite tools are quite known or used to be popular. Yet, I really, really wanted to take part in ...
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Henk Hommersom

Using sift instead of ag. Way faster (certainly on windows). Ditto as windows clipboard manager. Greenshot for screendumps

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Adam Brandizzi

Now I'm really curious about sift, mostly due to it conditionals feature. I keep myself asking for it all the time! Let's check it!

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AoDev

tmux + tmuxinator

They let me start any development environment / scripts quickly. The only thing I do when I arrive at the office is mux start myjob and boom everything ready. Same for any project.

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Adam Brandizzi

I didn't know tmuxnator. That's awesome!

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vinney cavallo

Thanks for reminding me to install a clipboard manager on Ubuntu! Your tools look a lot like mine :)

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Adam Brandizzi

Happy to help :) Are you using ClipIt or something else? I used to use Parcellite but it just became unusable at a point, especially in the command line...

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vinney cavallo

A couple of weeks ago I started looking at the various options but hadn't settled on one. Will probably go with ClipIt if for no other reason than you mentioned it :D

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crazy4groovy

AgentRansack is a pretty good grep alternative in a Windows environment, what with having a GUI and all :)

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Adam Brandizzi

Interesting, it can search even Microsoft Office documents, right? This is quite advanced!