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Discussion on: What tools do you use for programming? Like editors and environments?

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John Stewart
  • vscode - take time and setup your debugging environments depending on what app you working on. The debugging features have saved me tons of time. There is a bit of a learning curve but worth it.

  • iTerm - always open

  • Insomnia - for API requests

  • nvm - switching between node envs

  • Pomy - personal pomodoro time keeper, I like working in 25 minutes increments and breaking my tasks up that way. Then 5 minutes of whatever to think about something else for a bit then back to it. Goal is 4 - 8 Poms each day which is ~2 - 4 hours of solid coding which yields more than you might think.

  • Brave - browsing and reading for breaks in between poms

  • Chrome + Devtools - majority work and some browsing

  • SimpleNote - quick notes, pseudocode, articles to read later

Pretty much all of these are open all the time. Also when I am working I mute my notifications as they get pretty distracting and annoying.