Save 101 hours a year with 5 simple shortcuts

Simple Shortcuts

David (drbh) Holtz
HackerNoon.com
Published in
2 min readMar 26, 2018

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  1. SSH bash alias
  2. Spectacle window resizing
  3. Making GIF’s
  4. Clean Slack channel
  5. Make static HTML report

Time spent

1. ── SSH
├────── 1 time a day
├────── 5 minutes
└────── 30.4166666667 hours annually
2. ── Window resize
├────── 15 time a day
├────── 30 seconds
└────── 45.625 hours annually
3. ─ Making GIF’s
├────── .2 time a day
├────── 5 minutes
└────── 6.08333333333 hours annually
4. ── Clean Slack channel
├────── .2 time a day
├────── 1 minute
└────── 1.21666666667 hours annually
5. ── Make static HTML report
├────── .2 time a day
├────── 15 minutes
└────── 18.25 hours annually

whats that add up to?

In : 30.4166666667 + 45.625 + 6.08333333333+ 1.21666666667+ 18.25
Out: 101.5916666667

101.59 hours a year for just these 5 tasks

Python calculator used

def hours(n,t):
return n * t
def hours_a_year(n,t):
return hours(n,t) * 365.0
def time_wasted(n,t,what):
string = 'you spend %s hours a year %s\'ing'
return string % (hours_a_year(n,t) / 60.0, what)

1. SSH alias

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