What's your favourite tool or software, and how has it improved your workflow?

I gotta say vim. The editor by itself is great, but when you start applying the vim-like mindset to your toolbox (ie small, composable tools, vim bindings, keyboard centrism, etc) you really step up. That and window managers. I'm on i3 but really it's a matter of choice
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I read this somewhere that if you ever wanted to generate an ASCII file with random text, ask a linux noob to open up vim, type something, save the file and exit without letting him know how :)
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Emacs is my favorite vim :)
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Emacs Isn't supposed to be a different tool?
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It's a bit of a joke, but Emacs has a very good vim emulator called evil-mode which gives you everything you could want from vim, plus all the Emacs stuff.
When you combine that with org-mode and org-evil then you basically have everything a person could ask for out of life, so long as that person is stunted and terrible.
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The appeal of vim though is that it comes out of the box or can be easily installed on any server you may be sshing into. I love Emacs, but it doesn't have that. I use Emacs on my machine, but rely on vim anywhere else.
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Hilarious 🤣
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vim
Interesting, are you referring to this?
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110 sats \ 5 replies \ @Roll 23 Jan
Linux :) vs windows vs mac world
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so a tool that changed many thing too me, it is this one :
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Seek! I like the INDEPENDENT one, including the screwdriver. Design wise the black Y shaped is the most agreeable to my eyeballs! But please, give me a break with that grey bottle-opener-carabiner-wrench ! That's design man!
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;)
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i read it and particpate to ;)
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Mechanical keyboard. Since I've started to use it I started typing a lot more text with pleasure
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Spicy one, do you mind sharing a pic or a link of the one you are using?
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I started with simple one with 81 keys. Lately we are building with my friend mutant of dactyl manuform. You can check it out here https://github.com/jsallan/flow
What kind of keyboard do you use?
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Man that's seek! Congrats on putting it together. It's for gaming? Or how do you justify the 15 key per hand?
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This is for typing/it development/etc With 15 keys here's another philosophy named "layers". You have all keys on different layers. The same as "shift" transform one key into another the same way you map another key to activate next layer of keys. On first layer you have lower key, on the second upper keys, third layer digits, and so on. You can create more than three layers
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Really interesting, you should post about the process in ~Design
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I'll consider it when we finish
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vs code
Copilot
AI generally. Life changing
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AI generally. Life changing
like cocaine!
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As a scrum master, project manager of the past. Azure Dev Ops(ADO) has automated a ton of the work I lead and manage!
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Ah yep! They make it just for it. Ever thought about switching to open source alternatives?
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Design-specific tool?
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Anything!
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VS Code is a great one for me
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Ever tried VScodium? I can't compare, so I'll ask here: pro and cons?
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webflow is one of my favorite software tools. it’s one of the first times i experienced the joy of being able to build stuff on the internet without really knowing anything about programming.
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382 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 23 Jan
Have you tried Framer? I've heard it gives you a little more freedom to add custom code.
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340 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 23 Jan
yeah i played around with it a bit, they have a really smooth AI onboarding flow for people to generate templates with a text prompt.
however, i found that webflow’s CMS functionality (which is the most critical thing for me) has many more integrations, making it easier to automate or bulk upload/edit CMS items.
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there is also an open source version called webstudio, but i haven’t tried it yet
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Really interesting! How does the open source version works? it's publish the sites on webflow servers? Or it builds the site files to be published anywhere? Or both options are available when hitting that green "Publish" button?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 23 Jan
i believe it’s totally separate, not related to webflow
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well is asking a G or gitH account... uninstalled!
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