Can Our Tools Increase Developer Productivity?

What can our tools do for our developer productivity? Software developers can feel very strongly about developer tools and how best to use them.
In this episode, Trisha Gee talks about how important it is to continue learning about your software tools and their capabilities to increase your developer productivity and grow as a software engineer.
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[@yannickpaz]

Confirmed. Trisha is a phenomenal addition to this channel! Great topic, great presentation 👌

[@leerothman2715]

One piece of advice I give to other devs is to learn the IDE shortcuts. The amount of time I see devs taking their hands off the keyboard to use the mouse for everything really slows them down.

[@Simiaaaa]

So maven could do parallel build for all this time .... this is going to be gamechanger for me thank you Trisha ! ( Gotta dig bit more into maven i see )

[@defeqel6537]

Tooling is an interesting topic. There are some basics, like debugging, though that can be a rather large topic by itself, but overall you can waste quite a bit of time by exploring different tools, without necessarily finding much benefit. Language servers, fuzzy search and editor (whatever your preference) shortcuts are probably the most impactful for day-to-day workflow, personally I like to explicitly trigger the (language server) suggestions, but that's a matter of preference. For a good flow, I also prefer my tools to be very light, so my thoughts don't start to wander. Beyond that, it's difficult to estimate what tooling to spend the time to learn, especially since much of the time the decision of which tools to use is out of our hands as individual developers.

[@isabelgarrido7413]

This video is great! Love the gradle tips ❤

[@d3stinYwOw]

Read documentation, try various stuff, learn keybindings. Knowledge transfer about usage of IDE X to IDE Y won't work if you don't use IDE in the first place. Lightweight editors like neovim (or vim, precedessor) with language server are a great alternative to full-blown IDEs. You can still have snippets, autocompletion, code navigation and debugging without eating half of your RAM :D

[@ForgottenKnight1]

3:00 - That is such a nice thing. I'm gonna explore VS tomorrow morning to see if they got something similar :)

[@KathySierraVideo]

So awesome to see Trisha again! 👏🤸🏼

[@alcar32sharif]

Trisha ❤

[@marianialvaro7603]

I actually think just follow a great programmer code (and comment) is a good way to challenge the way you work

[@toffeethedev]

Horrible thumbnail 😭

[@ChrisB_Crisps]

Well, I like it