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7 Productivity Hacks That Changed My Life (And Will Change Yours Too)

Prayush Adhikari on October 15, 2025

Hey there! I am glad you ended up here. Look, I've tried every productivity hack under the sun, and most of them? Complete garbage. But the ones I'...
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Michael Casile

I've been on Linux for decades (transitioned from Redhat to Ubuntu a few years ago). Ironically, some of my side-project software (stuff I'm doing for church) actually uses software that has a windows (or mac) client and of course no windows client. So I just got a second inexpensive notebook for Windoze.

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Prayush Adhikari

Yeah if work demands using windows system, we have to have one. Hope you are building something great.

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Fred Brooker

use VirtualBox and immutable images 😎

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JIm Cruz

Great article, Prayush, really inspiring and packed with these practical hacks! 👏 Thanks for sharing your experience so openly.

Would you mind sharing the resources or references you used for your setups, especially the CLI assistant?

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Prayush Adhikari

Glad you liked it! I will be surely writing a dedicated blog for the CLI assistant soon. Please stay connected!

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Fred Brooker

my combo: leave toxic social media (meta, X), use Google Chrome + Dev Tools + Gemini, VSCode + relevant plugins, Docker, Makefile and automation (#1 is backup and building), learn Golang or Kotlin or Rust + some scripting (I'm PHP + jQuery - since 1998)

and yes, I'm on Linux for 20 years

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Dennis Tobar

I've enjoyed it. Thanks for the inspiration ☺️

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Prayush Adhikari

Glad you liked it!

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Junsuk Park

Can you share how to set up "Command Line Assistant" on next post?

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Prayush Adhikari

Sure I will be writing the blog soon. Till then you can connect with me for more upcoming exiting things.