20 Tools and Techniques that Make You More Creative
summary
Twenty concrete tips that speed everyday work: enable did_you_mean experimental to autocorrect method and hash key typos, use Bundler parallel installs (set jobs to 16) to cut ~200-gem installs from minutes to seconds, run controller actions from the Rails console with fake get/post requests, use assertion helpers that print intermediate values for failing tests, run tests automatically with a file-watch command, search code with ag, pretty-print HTTP JSON with httpie + jq, colorize output with pygmentize, explain shell commands with explainshell, and tile windows with ShiftIt.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Experimental
- 2:29Parallel Install
- 2:50Real Console
- 3:07Task Console
- 3:29Watch Command
- 4:25Breast Expansion
- 4:46Street Terminal
- 5:03BAM
- 5:47aging
- 6:10exitingtoohigh
- 7:12pigmenthot
- 7:28ColorEyes
- 8:04SideBySide
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