Dev productivity tips & tools

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The following tips and tools are found to be useful in the daily life of a developer

Tips
The following tips would improve the speed and consistency in work. Decreases the lazyness around working productively.
Keyboard shortcuts
1.Selects the whole thing - Shift + fn + ->
2.More control over the selection - Shift + ->
3.Word by word movement - Ctrl + ->
Intellij specific
Search the codebase - Press Shift 2 times
Windows-specific
Snippet - Win + Shift + S Powershell options - Win + X Organize windows - Win + -> or <-
Emoji
Bring brilliance to the discussion.
Emoji
GitHub Markdown
🎉
:tada:
👍
:+1:
😂
:joy:
😃
:smiley:
💚
:green_heart:
Note: complete emoji list.
Unicode symbols
Unicode arrows (→ ⇒ ⇄ ↻) reference link​
Thank you
Thank often both the robots and humans. Thank at the beginning, during and at the end of any code review process.
In a Pull Request (PR) there are about 10 Thank you's!
Shall we ask questions or give a request or suggestion?
Even though we are sure about something, let us give some room for discussion by asking a question.
Email etiquette
See https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-end-an-email/​
Privacy
Mail address
Make sure to have a different email addresss for Open Source discussion with a pseudony, such for example, corepointer or j143. So that email address can be j143 [at] protonmail.com.
Full name
Full name of a person is to be kept private.
1.If you are using Gmail, navigate to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/accounts.
2.In the edit info section, you might want to remove your second name! :)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege.
Tools
Grammar correction tool
Always check for typos in emails, comments or discussions.
Some tools: Grammarly​
The chat language ("u" instead of "you") to be avoided, write down full sentences.
Pomodoro technique
Manage time and stay undistracted!
How it works?
1.Choose a task you'd like to get done
2.Set the timer for 25 minutes
3.Work on the task until the time completes
4.Note it as one pomodoro
5.Take a short break
see https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique​
A chrome extension at https://github.com/schmich/marinara​
Git documentation
One stop shopping for all that is git.
see https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git​
Vocabulary
The words that we frequently use in development conversations
For example:
1.How to understand a problem, better?
Aritcle link: https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/the-task-of-turning-vague-thoughts-into-more-precise-ones/​
1.Many things just don't work the first time, and we do need to repeat them again and again.
Article link: https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/on-resilience​
External links
1.A Human Guide to Developer Productivity. link: https://snipcart.com/blog/guide-developer-productivity-tools​