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What tools in your day to day give the largest productivity boost?

3 points by antb123 ↗ HN
For me they would be git, linux, python/ pandas, upwork (met some great offshore devs but it took time), password management (bitwarden,keepass), daily exercise, daily meditation, firefox(google), and cellphone all in no particular order.

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pumpkinhead
Windows Terminal with PowerShell. With Terminal I run git, psql, hg, vim, sqlite. With PS I slice and dice text, csv, xml, mock up web services and clients, curl, ssh, write helper scripts, etc. Better than any unix shell I have ever used.
antb123
why better? I have a privacy issue with MS Windows after they integrated advertising into windows 10 and bought linkedin.

That said I like the object oriented nature of powershell. And Excel is amazing if you know what you are doing.

leonim
For interactive slicing and dicing of csv, xml, json, etc. I like VisiData. For scripting I like miller and jq. Not sure how that compares to your PS setup.

There are some recent Unix shells, like nushell for working with structured data, but I haven't used them.

  - https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
  - https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
  - https://github.com/nushell/nushell