What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
Could be anything - dev tools, blogging platforms, SaaS...
Mine would be some (hypothetical) way of making it so I could see what accounts I had with any given service (Trello, GitHub, etc), what signin methods they used (password, social, etc), and could merge/rename/delete accounts and signin methods without going through tedious confirmation processes or support tickets. Something about having a fragile web of interconnected user/password combos and email accounts makes me anxious whenever I think about it or create a new account somewhere. Almost every service I've used seems to make big assumptions behind the scenes about what to do when someone invites you to a team using email, for example, and you already have an account using GitHub signin - so you end up having either two different accounts or merged accounts when you don't want to.
An online service to deliver Costco goods to home bi-weekly. Basically any service that can take out the manual chore for me.
Github copilot everywhwre. I love the way how it completes the code and even helps write documentation.
But I think it could do equally well for say when you're at the bash terminal, or even writing this comment, the app should just get the context and start auto-completing everywhere I can type, intelligently like copilot. That would be amazing!
Anything that would automatically handle cookie walls, "please subscribe to our newsletter" overlays and automatically playing videos.
A computerized garden. Input the plant species and it gardens for you. Automatic water, light, heat, fertilizer. Uses lasers to zap pests above ground and uses whatever methods available for below ground pests. Velcro walls to turn it into a greenhouse.
A simple content management system that lets me take a photo of an object using my phone, add some quick metadata or category about it, then have it sync to the cloud where I can later add more detail from my laptop. Ideally I'd have fine-grained control of collections and share images between collections. Bonus points if it can use some sort of ML to learn about my objects and make metadata suggestions. Extra bonus points if it's not a subscription based cost.
I want a first-class open-source local-first password manager. Like Enpass or legacy 1Password, without needing to trust my passwords to "the cloud." I paid for a full "lifetime" license of 1Password 4, and 6, and 7. I paid for a full lifetime license of Enpass. I'd gladly pay ~$70 for something with as good a UI as BitWarden but without a need for a server.
EDIT: pass and KeyPass are not even close to the same league, please don't suggest them.
Discipline to be more focused. Say 'no' more, and leave aside distractions.
A good practice is to start day with quiet, some reading from the book, and meditation.
A terminal based IDE that has quick startup time, vim's keybindings and plugin ecosystem, and just works out of the box without me spending hours on configuration.
I'm currently using LunarVim, which is poorly documented, painful to install, update and configure, and with lots of tiny issues that I've spent hours trying to fix. But, it's still the best thing out there!
I would pay a ton of money to whoever can solve this problem.
Another thing I would pay money for is a terminal based python REPL that resembles a jupyter notebook. The IPython repl doesn't cut it for me and is missing a bunch of features, and projects like Euporie are missing things that I like in IPython. So something that borrows the best of both worlds would be incredible.
- a solid LSP implementation for a programming language
- zig (missing semamtic analysis)
- D (missing semantic analysis)
- a cross platform debugger (GUI)
none of that exist in the market, people focus on new useless text editors (there are already plenty)
I'd like to see a $30 pen tablet, similar to the Boogie board but better designed and with the ability to export documents. Then I could put one every place I have scraps of paper for notes or notebooks and be able to collect everything I write into a digital form (ideally automatically and wirelessly). A $500 pen tablet just does not work for this, it would cost too much to have 10 tablets around the house. Basically a Boogie board plus an ESP32 and a little storage with some well written software. Even $50 would be acceptable, $100 might be too much.
A dump truck or a semi with a low boy.