The Developer's Toolkit: Everything We Use But Ruby

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Argues that usefulness is specifics not slogans and demonstrates actual hacks: aggressive use of zsh command history plugin and Jump to avoid memorizing paths, iTerm2 features and a pre-push rubocop hook to run linters only on changed files, and replacing a ten‑step commit + PR ritual with a GUI workflow using Fork GUI plus Hub aliases so pushing and opening a PR is one click. Advises novices not to learn VIM unless that cost pays off.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:16This slide will help you be faster and more efficient
3. 0:48Here's a workflow
4. 1:02Finish some code run rubocop & linter commit code create pull request
5. 1:30A 10 step process
6. 2:20Memorize 5 commands
7. 3:03What's most important?
8. 3:35Novice vs. Expert workflow
9. 3:55The Developer's Toolkit Noel Rappin (@noelrap)
10. 5:07What makes a tool useful?
11. 5:53We have to attend to detail
12. 6:34Stay focused on important stuff
13. 6:50Memory and focus
14. 7:48Our tools are complex and flexible
15. 8:10complexity
16. 9:07Command line tools are great
17. 9:25They are also opaque and memory intensive
18. 11:06You don't need to be a CLI expert to be a real programmer
19. 12:29Opaque Years To Learn Idiosyncratic setup
20. 13:22As an entry-level developer, learning vim may not be the best use of your time.
21. 16:04Single use But pretty easy to use
22. 18:47Choose your stenotypes very carefully
23. 19:18You have limited counter space for waffle irons
24. 20:37The good stuff
25. 21:38How to handle aliases..
26. 22:56Command History
27. 26:08Option-click to position mouse
28. 26:53Let's talk about Git
29. 27:11Git hooks
30. 28:05Use a Git GUI tool like Fork
31. 30:47GitHub hub
32. 31:33Editor Tricks
33. 37:37Transmit
34. 37:55Sequel Pro Postico
35. 38:51The Touch Bar
36. 39:58Remember the task?
37. 41:10I do these steps all the time

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