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Discord has been rock solid so far for VOIP, and actually has great UX. A refreshing change after years of using mumble/teamspeak and maintaining my own servers on flaky cheap VPS providers.
Ridiculous how well this actually works. The target market is gamers but I use it for business.
CircleCI ( https://circleci.com/ ) I add this to every new project. Best cloud-based continuous integration platform I've used so far. Sane intelligent defaults, many projects start building out of the box. You can easily link it to Slack (another piece of reliable software) and start getting continuous feedback that your project is working correctly / is getting deployed - as it is being built.
pip
From the desktop, most of my development toolkit: bash, vim, git, etc. On the server side of things: nginx, haproxy, redis, memcached, cron, logrotate, Linux And controversially (probably since I've learned their quirks): MySQL, Nagios. They all just... work. I use these tools to set up a server, and after configured, the VM usually goes down before they do. On the flip side of things, tools I have to use and highly…
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Care to give some examples how? For me, Eclipse has remained very stable. Maybe we are using them for different languages and/or things.
I worked with Eclipse for a few years and found it was a constant source of stress, refusing to stay synchronized with maven, crashing, having to restart it, etc.
I was hating maven, until I started using IntelliJ. I don't remember ever Eclipse going to zero error count on a maven project whereas the project would just compile if maven was used outside of Eclipse.
IntelliJ just works. FTW it has Eclipse key-mappings as well.
All that 'yak shaving' makes me feel like Windows and OS X are poised to become legacy desktop operating systems. Every other popular consumer operating system today avoids that stuff somewhat successfully and none of us wish devops would disappear so we can manually do that stuff again. Security around traditional desktop operating systems is getting unfunny very fast too. Some of the software we like is so wasteful…
git is so reliable that I forget that reliability used to be a problem in version control (I've had to reconstruct CVS and Subversion repositories that got corrupted via various bugs and quirks of the system). It's also pretty fast. SQLite is an automatic, and easy, answer. It almost goes without saying at this point, I guess. vim is everywhere. I like knowing I can always run it no matter where I am or what server/V…
and documentation!
VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.
I switched to SMPlayer because of the integration with OpenSubtitles. http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/
FB's messenger - everyone should be using this instead of SMS