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Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by neeeeees »

beingflo wrote: post #7

Caddy [0] has been an absolute joy to work with. I switched this year from nginx for my sideproject-hosting VPS. Just letting it handle the SSL certs and configuring a static site or a reverse proxied route in literally 3 lines of config is really nice. I'm planning on adding Authelia [1], Prometheus and Grafana Loki to the mix soon, which should all integrate nicely :) [0] https://caddyserver.com/ [1] https://www.au…

Interesting! I liked the configurability, but it was horribly slow with SSL. Possibly due to uncached DNS lookups but I didn’t dig too deep.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by rr808 »

isaacaggrey wrote: post #47
rr808 wrote: post #12

Windows Terminal has completely changed how I view Windows. Open a console and ssh to anywhere. Open a WSL console and use Linux on the desktop. Hard to believe.

Are you just saying that Windows users longer need to use PuTTY or similar? That sounds convenient but leaves me wondering what particularly about that quality of life improvement changes how you view Windows.

Yeah Putty worked great but was a bit-unorthodox compared to openssh.

Other interesting change is unix style \n line endings working everywhere even notepad.

Its also combined with other changes like browser hosting most apps, vscode being used on linux/mac which is still Windows first class.

Still many unix tools dont work well which is why wsl is handy. docker is handy too.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by kickaha »

kneebonian wrote: post #20

Doom Emacs

Came here to say, “Still Emacs.” Yes, I am an enthusiast (read “ideologue” if you like). But hear me out. I grew up on it in the 80s and 90s—I came to rely on it even before Org came along.

I am able to make it do anything I want, to make little extensions for every little need all the time. Truly evergreen.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by [deleted] »

neeeeees wrote: post #61
beingflo wrote: post #7

Caddy [0] has been an absolute joy to work with. I switched this year from nginx for my sideproject-hosting VPS. Just letting it handle the SSL certs and configuring a static site or a reverse proxied route in literally 3 lines of config is really nice. I'm planning on adding Authelia [1], Prometheus and Grafana Loki to the mix soon, which should all integrate nicely :) [0] https://caddyserver.com/ [1] https://www.au…

Interesting! I liked the configurability, but it was horribly slow with SSL. Possibly due to uncached DNS lookups but I didn’t dig too deep.

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Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by LecroJS »

rmk wrote: post #45

The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.

What makes you prefer GoLand over another editor with LSP integration? I don’t write much Go but I’m curious if it provides other features for when I inevitably learn it
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