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Dash for macOSOnce you get use to it, you won't be able to imagine your life without Dash. It will save you a bit of time every day. Many times.
As a bonus you can use the "snippets" feature as a generic text-expander. That saves me tons of time when writing emails, too.
p.s. aText is not exactly a direct competitor; however, I replaced it through the snippets feature of Dash.
Based on our record, Dash for macOS seems to be a lot more popular than Dev Tips. While we know about 94 links to Dash for macOS, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Dev Tips. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Dash for MacOS (proprietary, paid) has the documentation for over 200 APIs and over 100 cheat sheets, and the ability to generate documentation for packages for Swift, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, Rust, Scala, Dart, Haskell, Hex, Clojure. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago
This isn't a new idea for developer tools. DevDocs, Zeal, and Dash have offered offline documentation browsing for years. What's new is applying this architecture to AI agents โ giving your coding assistant the same offline, instant, version-accurate access to docs that you'd want for yourself. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
"the IDE had to be discoverable right away (which it was) and self-contained to offer you a complete development experience" This right here was the key to super flow state. Lightning fast help (F1), very terse and straightforward manuals. I have tried to replicate this with things like Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash), to some degree of success. The closest thing I had to this in windows was probably Visual Studio... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
You're absolutely right about the root cause being outdated AI knowledge bases/training data. I agree, my solution doesn't address that directly. Where this actually shines is with local LLMs (Ollama, etc) - smaller models, no API costs, fully offline, and the AI gets fresh docs without waiting months for model retraining cycles. Your point about convincing major providers to integrate something like Dash... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
Https://kapeli.com/dash for MacOS supports man pages just like any of its many other documentation sources. Just prefix the search query with `man:`. Absolute hall of fame app IMO. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Https://umaar.com/blog/ There's also hundreds of developer tips here https://umaar.com/dev-tips/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
I've created a collection of 200+ tips like this on my website: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/. - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago
I've put over 200 tips like that on my website: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/ Each tip has a textual explanation, and an animated gif if you're a visual learning (I know, I need to scrap gifs and move to regular videos). There's a lot of tricks there which can hopefully improve your development and debugging workflows. Let me know if there are specific things you'd like to see. A few people have asked for how to... - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago
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