Tag: productivity
I do my best thinking after 10 pm
My best thinking shows up after 10pm — when the noise stops, the inbox stops, and the ideas finally have room.
How I actually use AI tools (and why I stopped using one tool for everything)
I stopped forcing one AI tool to do everything. Here’s the honest, day-to-day workflow I actually use instead.
iTerm2: Add Keystroke to move between words
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
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
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…