Two essential tricks of a 10x developer

As a 10x developer, I am sharing with you two tricks I use to boost my productivity in every area, and three practical examples you can use right away, or get inspired by.

1. Hack your tools

You are using a lot of web tools to do your work as a developer. Sometimes they make things easier, but not always. That is why you have to learn how to modify these tools to work as you wish them to. To change websites you visit, you can install “Run JavaScript” extension for Chrome browser or any similar for your favorite browser. It executes JavaScript you write on a page you will indicate.

It makes JIRA, Shortcut, GitHub, GitLab and other tools a lot friendlier.

Example 1: Copy ticket name and commit message from Shortcut

Shortcut does not have a way to prepare a ticket and a commit message easily. With a script I wrote, it is as easy as clicking a button:

You can get the script here: Shortcut Copy Branch Name

Example 2: Copy ticket name from JIRA and show the name in the tab

JIRA is also an interesting task management system. It has two flaws, thus: it does not make it easy to copy a branch name from a ticket name. Also: it does not show the ticket name in the tab in the browser and in the task bar.

That is why created a second script for JIRA: