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Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by anta40 »

unnouinceput wrote: post #290
tezza wrote: post #5

cygwin mintty stream deck firefox / thunderbird eclipse linux socat / netcat postgres / mysql ms windows (ducks) emacs ms excel

Fucking finally somebody that says cygwin. Everybody nowadays is "wsl2 this, wsl2 that" but they forget that the OG, which still blows wsl2, it's CygWin. I use it for 2 decades, one of the 2 programs I install whenever I need to use somebody else (usually client) PC; the other one is uBlock Origin.

Why? Because WSL = running Linux on top for Windows, so expect a performance hit?

Many many years ago during undergraduate days, I used Cygwin (before being introduced to VirtualBox) to provide a UNIX-y coding environment on my Windows PC.

And on these days I prefer docker :D

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Post by pipeline_peak »

preseinger wrote: post #309
pipeline_peak wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand his intention, but “the worst form of encoding” is pretty ridiculous.

It's a reference to the old adage about government > Democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried https://blogs.fcdo.gov.uk/petermillett/2014/03/05/the-worst-...

Oh my mistake

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Post by lolive »

The usual suspects:

- i3

- tmux

- SQLite

- Intellij

- Java

On Windows:

- Git-bash

- Autohotkey

- Virtual desktops in win10+

And my MVP for 2022:

Obsidian.

4 months after discovering it, I have 700+ (work) notes, that are the core of my knowledge and skills.

I absolutely LOVE this tool !!!

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Post by aidos »

mig39 wrote: post #187

Honestly, the big one for me, this year, is tailscale. No matter where I am, what device I'm using, all my stuff is always accessible and with me. I love it.

So good that it took this article to remind me that it’s there for me everyday, doing it’s thing perfectly, staying out of my way.

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aljgz wrote: post #243
andrei_says_ wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on the difference between Windows and MacOS in the context of multitasking?

I should say a lot of that is because of the fundamental assumption that multiple instances of an app are related to each other in multitasking. If I have vscode in my external monitor, plus two Firefox instances one in internal and one in the external, than in many ways of switching to the browser, both windows come up. That covers my IDE, and I need an extra click/keystroke to bring it back. One example of many. I'…

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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by neonSonOfXenon »

In no particular order:

Vivaldi Browser, because I was a heavy Opera user back in the day

VS Code and all of its fantastic debug extensions

Maven, which has made my life as a Java dev so much easier

fish shell, which comes with a lot of convenience features enabled out of the box

Krita, for providing me with a free yet fully-capable option for digital painting

Kind of the entire KDE suite in general, including Plasma

OpenMPT, same reason as Krita but for music composition

F#, which I don't get many opportunities to use, but I love the design philosophy behind it and think the syntax is gorgeous

Monospaced fonts with ligatures (Fira Code being my favorite)

Google Calendar, without which my life would be a completely disorganized mess

MusicBee, which provides iTunes level of music organization without being iTunes

Markdown + Typora, for letting me throw together quick but well formatted documents without having to set up a TeX install or deal with a full-blown word processor

Qt and QML, which taught me that UX design doesn't have to be painful

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Post by eointierney »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #242

- Nix/NixOS - GHC (Haskell compiler) - Emacs - consult/vertico/marginalia - Org-mode - Org-roam - tramp.el - magit - docker.el - gnus

It really is back to the future, isn't it?

If emacs then emacs, else $(evil)

Org-mode is my favourite superpower, magit is a superb example of nominative determinism, and the underlying trust of GNU is childishly verifiable.

RMS for our collective win

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