Dash for macOS Reviews

1. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · over 5 years ago
   One of my favourite productivity tools as a software developer

   Once 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.

   🏁 Competitors: aText

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Dash for macOS mentions (94)

• Focused Work, Distraction-Free Coding

  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 / 2 months ago

• Local-First Documentation: What It Is and Why Your AI Agent Needs It

  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 — giving your coding assistant the same offline, instant, version-accurate access to docs that you'd want for yourself. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost

  "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

• Show HN: Self-updating MCP server for official pip, uv, poetry and conda docs

  You're absolutely right about the root cause being outdated AI knowledge bases/training data.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 / about 1 year ago

• Man pages are great, man readers are the problem

  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 / over 1 year ago

SQL School mentions (19)

• How Long Does It Take to Learn SQL? Here are some best Resources to Do So.

  Tutorials: Many websites offer free SQL tutorials and exercises, such as SQLZoo and Mode Analytics. Source: over 3 years ago

• My job has requested I spend the next work week focused to learning as much SQL as humanly possible. Does anyone have any favorite or preferred resources?

  Follow this tutorial. Sign up for a free account and follow along in the Mode report editor. Solve all the practice problems along the way. Source: over 3 years ago

• Displaying SQL query outputs on portfolio

  If you are looking to practice your SQL skills, I like Mode to give you a good understanding of the basics as well as the advanced concepts. In this situation, I would simply learn to the test. Source: over 3 years ago

• From pharmacist to Data

  If youre learning SQL for the first time -> mode analytics is my favorite Especially for data analytics, great place to start and I recommend doing beginner and moderate levels. Source: over 3 years ago

• Really struggling with simple SQL - Any advice?

  I recommend this tutorial to all SQL beginners. My partner, who also had no background in programming, found this very helpful. Source: over 3 years ago