Software Engineering Power Tools
11 Jun 2015Here are my notes from last night’s After Hours talk at Hack Reactor. It was a lot of fun— thanks everyone who was able to make it!
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© 2011 - 2019.
David Ernst — A personal site
© 2011 - 2019.
Here are my notes from last night’s After Hours talk at Hack Reactor. It was a lot of fun— thanks everyone who was able to make it!
... Read moreGit-crypt is a combination of PGP/GPG and Git. It lets you include private files in your Git repos, without needing to worry about them being read by others. You can even publish these files to public repos, such as on GitHub, and not worry about any secrets or credentials being leaked.
... Read moreWe constantly complain about email being overloaded. But what do we do about it? We can’t get away from it. It’s the original social network. How many emails do you think are sent each day?
... Read more... Read more“It is amazing! I use it for my personal website… Seriously it is like magic” — Brian Zindler
Some of my favorite tools are about dampening the typical day-to-day effect of web services trying to steal all of our attention.
... Read moreI recently wrote a script that takes spreadsheet data to email a list of people programmatically, based on their addresses entered in the sheet. It’s pretty easy to even send each specific data from the spreadsheet that’s only relevant to them.
... Read moreCallouts to the developers of OmniGraffle for including such a humanistic introductory paragraph to the License Agreement when you install their software:
... Read moreIn Google Spreadsheets, you can refer to other cells relatively.
... Read moreWhen you’re using Google Apps Script to add advanced features to Google Spreadsheets, you may want to reference specific sheets by their index number in your list of sheets. There’s a Spreadsheet.getSheetByName(), but no Spreadsheet.getSheetByIndex(). This seems like it should be there, and yet the API designers haven’t included it. So what if you won’t know the sheet name?!
If you spend a lot of time in Asana, you might want a standalone app for it in your dock like this:
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