Best of Productivity — January 2024

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freeCodeCamp·2y
Visual Studio Code Extensions to Boost Your Productivity in 2024
Discover the top Visual Studio Code extensions to boost productivity in 2024. These extensions enhance features and tools, minimize context switching, and improve code readability. Explore AI-powered coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Tabnine. Customize your editor with icon themes and enjoy features like error lens, bookmarks, and indented rainbow. Stay organized with project manager and utilize real-time collaboration with Live Share. Optimize your workflow and increase productivity with these recommended extensions.
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DEV·2y
Why pomodoro doesn't work? Try this alternative 🍅
Learn about the Pomodoro Technique, its limitations for developers, and discover the Flowmodoro technique as an alternative for managing your time and staying focused on coding tasks.
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DEV·2y
3 Terminal Commands to Increase Your Productivity
Increase your productivity with these three terminal commands: creating aliases for commands, using pbcopy to copy file contents to the clipboard, and utilizing reverse search to find previously entered commands.
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DEV·2y
Time Management and Productivity for Developers
Learn about the importance of time management for developers and discover effective techniques such as goal-based planning, the Pomodoro technique, and the Eisenhower Matrix.
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Medium·2y
Ultimate ChatGPT Prompt Guide for 2024- Part 2
Learn about the Ultimate ChatGPT Prompt Guide for 2024 and how to create precise tasks quickly for efficient AI interactions. Discover productivity and AI tools to use with ChatGPT. Explore the top trending GPTs and top writing GPTs.
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DEV·2y
CSS Grid vs. Flexbox: Choosing the Right Layout Technique
CSS Grid and Flexbox are two layout techniques with different strengths and use cases. CSS Grid offers precise control over rows and columns, making it ideal for complex layouts. Flexbox excels in one-dimensional layouts, providing flexibility in content distribution. Both techniques can be used together for the most effective results.
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DEV·2y
Branding for Developers
Learn about the importance of personal branding for developers and how it can open up opportunities. Discover the steps to build a strong brand, including finding your brand personality, starting a blog, participating in communities, and reaching out to social media.
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ShiftMag - Insightful Engineering Content·2y
Productivity killers and boosters for software engineers
Learn about common productivity killers and boosters for software engineers, including tips on overcoming procrastination, managing interruptions and distractions, establishing a daily routine, taking short breaks, and utilizing tools and shortcuts.
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ThePrimeTime·2y
No Motivation ?
Overcome lack of motivation by relying on discipline to start a project, as motivation often kicks in once you begin working.
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Substack·2y
How to get 💩 done as a software engineer
Learn how to achieve your goals and increase productivity using the Time Sector System. Gain the benefits of reduced stress and feeling overwhelmed.
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DEV·2y
How to build your own SAAS business
Learn how to build a successful SAAS business by building an audience, using Django for development, offering a free tier, generating expansion revenue, listing your product on various platforms, and learning from expert founders.
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DEV·2y
Why Do Rubber Ducks Work?
This post explores the psychological factors that affect a programmer's performance and techniques to overcome them, including the rubber duck debugging technique, the shower effect on problem-solving, and methods to combat boredom and anxiety.
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Hacker News·2y
Why I like Obsidian
Discover why Obsidian is a unique and indispensable note-taking tool that allows organic structure, helps link atomic ideas, and is future-proof with its use of plain text files.
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DEV·2y
Regex is not your enemy
Regular expressions are powerful tools that can be used to automate data migration tasks, such as finding and replacing text. By understanding the basics of regular expressions, developers can save time and make their lives easier.
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Community Picks·2y
Developer Experience Book
This post discusses the importance of Developer Experience (DX) and how to optimize it to maximize productivity and business success. It explores the concept of DX, the benefits of creating intuitive developer experiences, and showcases industry leaders in crafting developer tools.
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Community Picks·2y
Vim As Your Editor - Introduction
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Product Hunt·2y
Domain Digger - Full Open-Source Toolkit for Next-Level Domain Analysis
Domain Digger is a full open-source toolkit for next-level domain analysis. It was created by [creator]. This is its first launch.
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Community Picks·2y
Vim As Your Editor - Introduction
Learn the basics of using Vim as your text editor, including the different modes (normal, insert, visual, and command), navigation in normal mode, and yanking and pasting in visual mode.
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strongdm·2y
10 Tips to Prevent Software Engineer Burnout
Learn about the signs and causes of software engineer burnout and discover 10 tips to prevent it, including clearly defining project goals, setting manageable workloads, providing necessary tools and resources, fostering open communication, offering training opportunities, recognizing and appreciating the team's hard work, streamlining interdepartmental processes for sufficient staffing, introducing task variety, establishing clear security policies, and maximizing productive hours through uninterrupted access.
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Sandor Dargo·2y
My time management system in 2024
Learn the importance of tracking your time at work, discover useful tools for time management, and find out how to use a spreadsheet for tracking your activities.
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Substack·2y
How To Drive Meetings
Learn how to drive meetings effectively to grow to Senior (L5). Meetings can be efficient for back-and-forth discussions, act as a forcing function for progress, and enable effective non-verbal communication. Prepare well before the meeting, lead the meeting by setting expectations and guiding the conversation, and follow up with clear ownership of tasks and sharing of information.
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Hacker News·2y
Fighting Infomania: Why 80% of Your Reading is a Waste of Time
Learn how to avoid wasting time on unnecessary information and focus on what's important. Avoid 'fauxductivity' and prioritize tactical knowledge over philosophical knowledge.
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Community Picks·2y
Vim As You Editor - Advanced Motions P1
Learn advanced Vim motions and techniques to improve your efficiency and speed in text editing. Discover shortcuts for selecting text within parentheses or braces and tips for copying and deleting in Vim.
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Hacker News·2y
I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
The author quit their job to work full time on Atuin, an open-source project that supercharges productivity by storing shell history in a database. They hope to add new premium hosted features and support business usage. The author made money to cover server bills through GitHub sponsors.
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Product Hunt·2y
Auto Wiki - Turn your codebase into Wikipedia style articles, using AI
Auto Wiki is an AI-powered tool that turns codebase into Wikipedia style articles, allowing users to write emails faster on the go.
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