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Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?
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#22Emacs
Redis
PostgreSQL
VLC
Perl
GNU tools like grep, xargs, find etc.
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#23GHC
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#24Linux
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#25Linux
PostgreSQL
Redis
Blender
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#26youtube-dl (to download youtube content without adds painlessley)
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#27TeX, because it's software that has been considered feature complete for nearly 30 years and despite it's successors' additional features its original feature set is still quite usable today.
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#28TeX, because it's software that has been considered feature complete for nearly 30 years and despite it's successors' additional features its original feature set is still quite usable today.
And by being considered feature complete and being pretty decent back then, it has held back the entire field for a generation.
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#29vim, bash, puppet, chef, kitchen, terraform
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#30I’d like give a shout out to the multiple free (mostly open source) eco-systems and frameworks for web development available nowadays.
The tooling is fantastic and getting better all the time.