Ask HN: What are some tools you wish you had while doing your day to day work?
(as a software developer or just someone using software, in whatever field you happen to be working in). An example: -> As a software developer, I've come across the need to work with CSV-"like" files several times in my career (at several different jobs), for different reasons. And it was most frustrating when they had like 100 columns or so. Having to change column 63 at line 58 is not something you do easily in Notepad++. Import to Excel was my way to go, but since the file was not a standard CSV file (e.g. also had sections like an .INI file) it was time consuming: first just select a subsection from the file, save to a different file, import to Excel, modify, paste back, etc. Maybe it was not the best approach, but that's not the point I'm making. Not having found an existing tool (maybe my problem was too specific) I eventually made a small desktop appli
Why it failed
(as a software developer or just someone using software, in whatever field you happen to be working in). An example: -> As a software developer, I've come across the need to work with CSV-"like" files several times in my career (at several different jobs), for d
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- deviance
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews