Eclipse Collections VS feeds

eclipse-collections for Java.

Each year when I do the Advent of Code challenge I use it as an opportunity to learn a new language or tool chain. This year I am writing in Java 17 (I have not used Java since Java 8), along with Eclipse Collections, and using VS Code as my IDE.

If you want design like that, you can just use Eclipse Collections (https://www.eclipse.org/collections/). But do note that that design has its own problems if you are after perfection.

Eclipse-Collections

You were a little wrong, surely you can see that? And for Collections that don't autobox, you want to use something like https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse-collections

https://kapeli.com/dash

Somewhat similar tool to Autokey for MacOS that I use as a text expander.

Allows for great customization - appending ; to a phrase ensures you don't accidentally expand a keystroke into a phrase/URL/etc

";url" expands into "whatever string you configure"

This reminded me that I needed to settle on a good system-wide Snippets manager for MacOS.

Having waded through the morass of buggy and subscription-only services many times in the past, I thought to give the open-source Espanso another go, but its last commit was many months ago and I simply could not get it to recognise Ventura permissions.

It was then that I remembered that the excellent Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash), for which I had already paid a very reasonable one-off fee, has a snippets manager. And it’s perfect.

I use Dash for my API reference, partly because it also has all the other references I need for other languages. It’s easier to paw through when you’ve got exactly this sort of problem.

Dash. Look up documentation really fast. Also useful for system wide snippets.

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Some time ago I had a thought that it would be interesting to make something like https://quickref.common-lisp.net/ but in form of docset for [Dash](https://kapeli.com/dash) documentation browser. This will give not only the search, but also a browsable documentation on all Common Lisp packages!