Craftsmanship
After some years of practice, I've found a handful of tools or methods, that significantly enhance my productivity and streamline some tasks.
— Productivity Tools
Raycast: a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
Most relevant features:
- Window Management — to easily position and resize windows
- Shortcuts — to search and run macOS shortcuts
- Quicklinks — to quickly open folders or links
- Calculator — a calculator on steroids
- Clipboard History — to search for text previously copied earlier and paste it again
More info on raycast.com or manual.raycast.com
VSCode Shortcuts & Extensions: for quickly executing commands, accessing features & for enhanced functionality, themes, integrations, and other.
Most relevant shortcuts for (macOS):
- Cmd + P — for quick file navigation
- Cmd + Shift + P — to open the command palette
- Cmd + Shift + K — to delete a line
- Option + ↑ or ↓ — to move a line up or down
- Option + Shift + ↑ or ↓ — to copy a line up or down
- Option + Shift + Cmd + ↑ or ↓ — to multi-cursor select
- Cmd + Shift + . — to toggle selection comment
- Ctrl + Option + L — to use console.log with Turbo Console Log
Most relevant extensions for productivity:
- Turbo Console Log — automates writing meaningful log messages
- Batch rename — to rename multiple files simultaneously within the editor window, and also facilitates copying multiple file names at once
- Better comments — to create more human-friendly comments in the code
- Change case — to quickly change the case of the current selection or word
- Colorize — to help visualize CSS colors in the code