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Nirsoft?
I believe Hollow Knight started out as a three person team?
Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
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#62xv image viewer by John Bradley
fvwm by Robert Nation
gwm (generic window manager) by Colas Nahaboo
lilo by Werner Almesberger
vim by Bram Moolenaar
Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
#63Rnote - Sketch and take handwritten notes.
Use it daily to take notes in lessons, never had any issues with it and he fixes stuff really fast compared to other similar sized projects (in my experience).
Before that i used xournal++ but rnote feels more stable/modern but lacks some features that xournal++ has
Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quote from Terry A. David > I asked God about racism? He said, "sports".[0] He's an interesting case in the balance between autonomy and bad decisions. Apparently his schizophrenia was easily controlled but he didn't want to give up what he felt was a direct line to God. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
what is worse, to suffer being yourself or suffer being not yourself? meds are not always the answer... we all have to go out eventually, some have the "luxury" of choosing the way we go
Thats a nice way to think about it. Perhaps we have more control these days and less choice.
He was also lucky enough to have a supportive family. After repeated trials of forced treatment all agreed that it was not tenable indefinitely.
At the time he passed there was an assumption he'd been killed. He would call people who he felt persecuted him, simply walking by him was enough, the N-word. Many buttock clenching a moment caught on his livestreams.
In the end it was likely an accident with him living around train tracks.
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#65Calibre developed by Kovid Goyal it's a one stop shop for eBook management. His reply to the issue "Python 2 is retiring in thirty months. Calibre needs to convert to Python 3." was "No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. status wontfix" [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
+1 for Calibre. It is such a wonder of software to me. I respected his reasoning though as another commenter has observed [1], it seemed inevitable that they would have to migrate at some point.
Re: Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?
#66Calibre developed by Kovid Goyal it's a one stop shop for eBook management. His reply to the issue "Python 2 is retiring in thirty months. Calibre needs to convert to Python 3." was "No, it doesn't. I am perfectly capable of maintaining python 2 myself. Far less work than migrating the entire calibre codebase. status wontfix" [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
You had me until the anecdote. I understand the sentiment and intent of what’s being said, but as a security professional it just paints themselves, their applications, and their user base as targets. Knowing it’s a won’t fix means it’s also easier to sell exploits if not disclosing as it’s clear he doesn’t intend to upgrade to a maintained and supported version of Python, so it should work for longer than most explo…
If you use the program its plainly obvious this kind of opinion is well spread through it. Of course I deeply respect anyone who puts their work out for free as FOSS but the tool is not a shining example of good software.
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#671) Chris Sawyer wrote Transport Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon in assembly. 2) SerenetyOS started off as a one man project by Andreas Kling.
For games, I believe Stardew Valley was a one man effort including all art and music.
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#68Sidekiq by Mike Perham is amazing. I’ve scaled multiple businesses on it’s back.
Sidekiq is one of the few things like RSpec and Factorybot that's become part of the standard toolkit in Rails land.
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#69/bin/false Does one thing and does it well
The code for this is surprisingly complex for a program that does nothing https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/true....