Hi all, I'm setting up my new work machine. Please...
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CodeSharePaul
02/01/2023, 1:08 PMHi all, I'm setting up my new work machine. Please hit me with your must have programs / extensions in a thread
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Sebastiaan
02/01/2023, 1:11 PMYou know where to find my tips.. 😉
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CodeSharePaul
02/01/2023, 1:11 PMAlready on your tips page mate
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Warren Buckley
02/01/2023, 1:14 PMSee if you can script it all with winget ??
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CodeSharePaul
02/01/2023, 1:15 PMI've been using chocolatey for most of it.
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Sebastiaan
02/01/2023, 1:15 PMOh.. winget is a lot better, it will take care of a lot of auto-updates too 🙈
Sebastiaan
02/01/2023, 1:15 PMJust start over, how hard can it be? 😂
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Warren Buckley
02/01/2023, 1:21 PMWarren Buckley
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Corné Hoskam
02/01/2023, 1:27 PM-Oh-my-posh & Powerlevel10k to powerup my Powershell Terminal
-Gitkraken, VSCode & Jetbrains Rider for all my Development work.
-ToDoist, Notion & Toggle Track for everything productivity related.
-Everything.exe, PowerToys & DevToys for general usefull-ness!
Corné Hoskam
02/01/2023, 1:33 PMOh and one more useful thing I can't live without; I have the "left hand-side"-'button' of my logitech mouse bound to a custom AutoHotKey script that hotswaps between two virtual desktops instantly. Using one virtual desktop for my IDE's and Git, and the other for things like Slack, browsers etc.
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D_Inventor
02/01/2023, 1:34 PMnvm for windows is definitely a must-have if you work with many different projects with different versions of node.
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Andy Boot
02/01/2023, 2:40 PMI've found 'Patch My PC' to be quite a useful tool to keep software on my PC up to date on a regular basis. Also allows for you to install new software by simply ticking a tickbox. Runs every day at 11am on all my machines and ensures I'm not behind with current versions: https://patchmypc.com/home-updater
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AaronSadlerUK
02/01/2023, 4:22 PMGitKraken, Terminal (Microsoft Store), Powershell 7, ReSharper, Office, Remote Desktop (Microsoft Store), Postman, SQL Server Manager, Azure Storage Explorer, ExplorerPatcher (if on Win 11 https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher)
AaronSadlerUK
02/01/2023, 4:22 PMScreentoGif
AaronSadlerUK
02/01/2023, 4:23 PMFilezilla, Makalu and Notepad++
AaronSadlerUK
02/01/2023, 4:23 PMCan't think of anything else 😂
AaronSadlerUK
02/01/2023, 4:24 PMAlso running this in Terminal removes a lot of bloat from Win11
winget uninstall "windows web experience pack"c
CodeSharePaul
02/01/2023, 10:30 PMThanks all. What about VS Code Extensions?
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Dean Leigh
02/02/2023, 7:19 AMDon't forget to instal Node Version Manager (NVM) before you install Node
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skttl
02/02/2023, 7:44 AMShareX for screenshots/recordings
skttl
02/02/2023, 7:45 AMXenu link sleuth, a broken link checker - I mostly use it to check if I borked some obscure part of a site after eg upgrading
skttl
02/02/2023, 7:48 AMHow about extensions for VSCode / VS etc?
I'll start with Tailwind CSS Intellisense, Headwind and GitHub Copilot for VSCode
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D_Inventor
02/02/2023, 7:54 AMThough trivial, I quite love the visual studio "Insert Guid" extension. Does exactly what it says. It adds a shortcut to insert a random guid at your caret
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Dean Leigh
02/02/2023, 8:10 AMVisual Studio Plugin Servers
ISS Express by our very own @Warren Buckley can be very useful
Also Live Server
Dean Leigh
02/02/2023, 8:11 AMVisual Studio Plugin from Microsoft
C# for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft Edge Tools for Visual Studio Code
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Sebastiaan
02/02/2023, 9:24 AMThat's already built into VS, you can just type nguid and then [TAB] to do that 💡
Sebastiaan
02/02/2023, 9:24 AMAh wait, that is a Resharper feature, not a VS feature, ignore me haha
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Matt Wise
02/02/2023, 4:18 PMVS Code
Prettier
Live Share
Rainbow CSV
Stack Trace Formatter
vscode-pets
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CodeSharePaul
02/03/2023, 9:12 AMThis thread is good, thanks everyone. Keep them coming.
Added NVM yesterday
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Matt Wise
02/03/2023, 9:52 AMMain thing is you have a vscode pet tbh 🙂
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CodeSharePaul
02/03/2023, 9:57 AMNot sure what it is yet. Might check it out later