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What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?

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What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?

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Post by konsuko » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:21 AM UTC

Based on the "Kon Mari Method", where you clean your apartment by inspecting everything you own and intuitively judging whether or not it "sparks joy", which of your applications fit that feeling?

For me, it's software like: - Neovim - Zig - Alacritty - Reaper - Obsidian

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Post by rchaves » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:22 AM UTC

Right now Arc browser

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Post by tagawa » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:27 AM UTC

Airtable (and others like it). Having a user-friendly spreadsheet that doubles as an easy website backend is like a dream compared to my early days of web development.

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Post by coder4life » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:30 AM UTC

pics Paint.NET or Faststone image viewer

audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions

text Notepad++

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Post by bsg75 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 5:34 AM UTC

Awk. I might be weird but it solves a myriad of tasks that land on me.

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Post by brettkromkamp » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:02 AM UTC

Blender. With a wide margin.

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Post by namuol » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:05 AM UTC

Safari’s “Reader Mode” and the ability to make it default to on.

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:17 AM UTC

/bin/shutdown

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Post by abudabi123 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:24 AM UTC

Sun Java running on Microsoft Windows.

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Post by wrp » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 6:28 AM UTC

bsg75 wrote: post #5

Awk. I might be weird but it solves a myriad of tasks that land on me.

Some one-liners just give me goosebumps. So much power with minimal complexity. (Looking at you, Perl.)

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