Anton Perez

Tag: productivity

  • I do my best thinking after 10 pm

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    Always have. Ideas and epiphanies show up at night. The noise stops, the inbox stops, and I can actually think. The problem: I work for a bank. We start early. Nearly 30 years in US tech, I worked mostly on my own schedule. Startups, SRE, DevOps/platform teams — output mattered more than hours. It fit…

  • How I actually use AI tools (and why I stopped using one tool for everything)

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    Until some time early last year, ChatGPT was my answer to everything. Ask it, get something, move on. Then I started paying attention to where it kept falling short — and I realized I was using a screwdriver for everything, including the nails. Nearly 30 years in tech will do that to you. You start…

  • iTerm2: Add Keystroke to move between words

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    On a Mac, I use iTerm2 as my default terminal due to the added features, such as auto-copy and the ability to split multiple terminals. One nuance was not having the ability to move between words (like in vim); however, I found the below how-to on Stack Overflow — where else? 🙂 Go to Preferences,…

  • My custom bash prompt

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    I wanted more information in my bash prompt, such as date/time and the directory I was in.  Here’s what it looks like: And this is what I added in my ~/.bash_profile: PS1=’${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\d \T > \[$(tput sgr0)\]\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\] : \[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\n\$ ‘ Run source ~/.bash_profile and enjoy. 🙂 BTW, there’s also a website that you can use to…

  • IntelliJ IDEA: Create JUnit Test method code snippet shortcut

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    I’ve been using IntelliJ over Eclipse for a while now, mainly because it feels newer and more tuned to develop with Maven-based projects. This is just me. Anyway, if you do TDD, you’ll want to take advantage of IntelliJ’s Live Templates. In this post, I’m writing about adding JUnit test code snippets, like so: @Test…