Small Programming Tricks

Will Keleher argues that a surprising amount of engineering productivity comes from small nuggets of knowledge, and shares a page of them: fuzzy history search with fzf, a searchable SQLite history with atuin, SELECT without a FROM, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, git's pickaxe search and ripgrep among them. The leadership idea comes at the end. At a previous company, Keleher shared one trick a day on Slack with the engineering team, technical and company-specific alike, and found that one a day was the right number to avoid overwhelming people; the post suggests that more senior engineers try the same.

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