11 articles tagged with ""productivity""
Staring at 200,000 lines of code you've never seen before, wondering where to even start? I've been there — approximately 47 times. Here's the exact excavation strategy I use to go from 'I've never touched this repo' to 'PR submitted' in under an hour.
Your GitHub Actions workflows are slow, wasteful, and probably costing you money. Here's how to fix that with caching, matrix strategies, and a few tricks I learned the hard way.
Every new project. Same dance. Copy CONTRIBUTING.md, steal the GitHub Actions workflow, paste the .editorconfig... What if you never had to do that again?
Spent 2 weeks perfecting your terminal setup only to get a new laptop and lose everything? I've done this 4 times before I discovered dotfiles on GitHub. Here's how to never start from scratch again.
After countless deployments, I kept forgetting whether it was `docker compose up --build -d` or `docker-compose up -d --build`. A Makefile fixed my life. Let me fix yours too.
Think npm is just for installing packages? Cool! Now explain why you're writing bash scripts when npm can automate everything. Let's dive into npm scripts - the built-in task runner you didn't know you had!
Still using the same mainstream tools everyone recommends? I found some lesser-known open source projects that are absolute game-changers but somehow fly under the radar. Let me share the secret weapons!
After 7 years of production deployments, I finally learned: Docker Compose isn't just for deployment - it's the secret weapon for local dev environments that don't suck!
You commit broken code, push to main, and realize you forgot to run tests... again. Git hooks are sitting in your .git folder laughing at you. Let me show you how to automate ALL the things you keep forgetting!
Still opening GitHub in your browser like it's 2015? The GitHub CLI will change your life. PRs in 3 seconds, issues from your terminal, and you'll look like a hacker in coffee shops.
Paying $10/month for AI code completion? I found some awesome open-source alternatives that won't drain your wallet. Let me show you the good stuff!