The Lazy Developer

Weekly hacks to make you a more productive engineer. Stay lazy, my friend.

Devin Finzer in The Lazy Developer

May 12, 2016

Five life-changing git aliases

Git’s great, but typing out all those commands can get a bit verbose at times. Here are five aliases that…

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Devin Finzer in The Lazy Developer

May 10, 2016

Automatically import Python modules in PyCharm as you code

As a Python developer, I used to spend a lot of time monotonously scrolling up to the top of a Python file, adding the appropriate import statements for whatever module I needed, then scrolling back down to where I was.

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Devin Finzer in The Lazy Developer

May 7, 2016

Sync your CSS changes from Chrome console to your local repo

If you do any web development, you’ve probably used the Chrome console extensively—it’s great for testing out CSS changes, Javascript debugging, and a host of other web-related tasks.

Devin Finzer in The Lazy Developer

May 4, 2016

An alias for new aliases

If you ever use your terminal, you’ve no doubt found yourself typing the same commands over and over again. To speed that process up, you’ve probably made a few aliases — simple commands that automate common tasks: cd’ing into a deep directory, tailing and grepping logs, running…

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Devin Finzer in The Lazy Developer

May 3, 2016

On laziness

According to Larry Wall, there are three great virtues of a programmer.

Laziness: Programmers want to reduce overall energy expenditure.
Impatience: Programmers anticipate future needs and write code against them.

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