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Top comments (93)
The URL bar to convert rich text to plain text
Bro. This trick is so simple and yet useful but now only use it whenever CMD + SHIFT + paste doesn't remove formatting.
Yeah, it’s an old habit that will die hard.
Firefox also has the search bar which is one reason why I prefer it.
Many times I use Windows Run for that
Vs code has never let me down for this purpose.
I love when people paste AWS keys in there
Ctrl-T, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W :)
One hand and you don't even have to take your finger off Ctrl.
Lol, I use Notepad for that xdd
No, I suspect most of us would not be surprised.
I'm doing that too xD
I use notepad/gedit for that. Also for writing anything longer than two sentences because the chance of expiring session is bigger than a chance of a system shut down
Pen and paper.
Heard a counter arg, where 🔥 could destroy'em.
But it'd rarely ever happen.
Servers are more likely to be destroyed compared to the paper:
But it'd rarely ever happen. ;)
cough cough getrocketbook.com/
Been a moleskine user for decades. What's different about getpocket?
Rocket Book is endlessly reusable. It transforms the "real life" notes into digital ones and then you can wipe it clean again.
youtube.com/watch?v=U9Kas8l38Kc
I use my homemade search engine... haha... what I mean, an HTML input box that creates a string for google to search from multiple sites that I love.
Saves lots of time. Try this one: manish.imfast.io . { by default articles from dev.to also get listed}
Put anything related to DevOps like ubuntu, cloud, Nginx.... etc... and see the magic.
I am using this since 2009 when I was doing my management degree. This type of homemade search engine then helped me and my friends to find a job in the recession.
Love it!!
thanks dear . also refer dev.to/manishfoodtechs/metasearch-...
I use photoshop even though the designers in my life tell me I need the new hotness
There's something newer than photoshop?
Everyone is using Figma for wireframing and general design. It slaps on collaboration.
Illustrator/Photoshop are probably still better for more granular stuff.
For photo editing ? No.
For wireframing, designing responsive mockups and stuff like that yes. There's Adobe XD or Figma for example.
I'm not a designer but for quick flowchart or figures I use Windows PaintBrush.
Tab Wrangler browser extension (Chrome, Firefox).
I have ~6 or fewer browser tabs open at a given time.
By far.... A huge margin..... SourceTree to manage git at work, where repos are large, multiple projects, etc.... Everyone I see uses IDEs like intellij but I can't live without the UI of SourceTree
I used SourceTree for quite awhile. Give Fork a gander, I've never looked back.
I remember using SourceTree and remember nothing but the crashes.
mermaidjs within codepen for on-the-fly diagrams.
The input is "markdown-ish" and the output is svg. I know you can change look and feel with CSS, but I haven't bothered to yet.
mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
Nice Austin, really a very useful utility
That is unexpected, clever, and useful to me.
Here is a Sequence Diagram based on a true story to demonstrate how chaos can be captured quickly. Names have been changed but not forgotten 😂
Nano. Discovered it when I started using Ubuntu. Won't give it up. Ever.
Pico/nano is training wheels for vim. Sorry, just need to throw that in. 😎
Crying intensifies
The GitHub Desktop GUI. Yeah, yeah, you’re a lot faster on the command line. Still, I find it convenient. It provides a nice overview of the changes I‘ve made, and is just good enough for most cases.
Lucidchart. I had a colleague recommend it to me and have never looked back since. I find it far easier to explain solutions with a prop or diagram. Other good solutions (e.g. drawio) exist but I have settled on this one and I'm happy with it.
+1 for Lucid Chart.