Here is my personal list:
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I like to allocate the maximum amount of “space in my head” to focusing on solving the problem at hand, so I’m loath to reserve any amount of that space towards remembering how to interact with some overwrought Editor/IDE.
If there are repetitive tasks that need automating there is probably a way to script it in the shell or Vim/Emacs.
To get sufficient mileage out of “full featured” products you are either drowning in a medium with way too much boilerplate and/or your are just cranking out “nearly” the same thing over and over again.
And lets remember that sometimes repetition is a good thing because that is how we learn (or get motivated to do things in a better way next time).
