Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by pxue » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 7:47 PM UTC

Neovim and the whole Lua plugin ecosystem. It's so so good.

Been using vim for 10 years+, converted configs to Lua and modulized everything. Amazing rework on a piece of technology as old as computers.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by absolute_unit22 » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 7:55 PM UTC

- iTerm

- Ideavim (amazing emulator, emulates vim in IntelliJ; I love it)

- IntelliJ features (quick lists, GitHub integration, etc)

- Raycast (What I would want Mac Spotlight to be)

- QMK (Open Source Firmware for keyboards. Allows you to program the hell out of your keyboard, amazing tool. As an example I’ve placed all commonly used vim symbols in very comfortable positions on the home row via the Layers feature)

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by goddamnyouryan » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

https://link.horse

Linkhorse has been great for organizing my links. Like my own personal bibliography.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by absolute_unit22 » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

rmk wrote: post #45

The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.

I’m curious, have you tried just IntelliJ+Go plug-in ? From what I understand IntelliJ and Go plug-in = GoLand?

I’m asking because I’m starting a new job and wondering whether to ask for IntelliJ license or GoLand license. Advantage of InteliJ is that it works for most programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript/JacaScript: all via Plugins) and I don’t think GoLand is as flexible.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by de_dave » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 8:21 PM UTC

If I could only pick one, it would be Dynalist [0]. I know it's essentially just another webapp (with mobile apps) for writing lists, but for some reason is the first one I actually found myself using, both at work and personally.

I primarily use it to keep work logs, write high-level system designs, remember dinner recipes - or generally anything valuable or useful that can be expressed in list form.

[0] https://dynalist.io/

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by gremlinsinc » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #51

It has been an AI year for me: - ChatGPT - Stable Diffusion - MidJourney - Dall.e 2 - GitHub Copilot / OpenAI Codex - The new Tesla Copilot

I don't do much design, and while I'm super impressed w/ the graphic side of things. ChatGPT and Copilot have been more useful in my day-to-day and have blown up how I work, in fact it's curtailed some dev burnout, by doing the mundane things like writing tests.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by DIVx0 » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:12 PM UTC

disqard wrote: post #99

DIVx0 wrote: post #42

Stable Diffusion and its derivatives by far. I have always thought that our digital world should service humanity, meaning I want software that augments my human abilities, I extract value from it vs how things are now where services only exist to monetize human activities. For example: I want an AI mind that helps me discover and use information while factoring in my personal biases, morals and needs. I know that re…

Can you share any pointers to resources like step-by-step guides for self-hosting SD? Also curious, what sort of hardware are you using for SD? Thanks in advance!

I've played around with many SD frameworks but I typically use: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui since it has a lot of features and usually works well but it does have quirks/bugs that can be irritating. I use this webui on google colab (check "online services" in readme)

I have a M1 Max and have mostly avoided running SD on my machine since many SD implementations are built for windows or linux, supporting apple silicon had been less of a priority. Many of these frameworks will work on an M1 but i find using colab is simpler with similar performance.

However, since apple has released[1] Core-ML support SD models I have been trying some native apps like Mochi-diffusion[2] they seem to work well but are not yet as feature rich as the older webuis

1: https://github.com/apple/ml-stable-diffusion 2: https://github.com/godly-devotion/mochi-diffusion

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by 411111111111111 » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

absolute_unit22 wrote: post #104

rmk wrote: post #45

The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.

I’m curious, have you tried just IntelliJ+Go plug-in ? From what I understand IntelliJ and Go plug-in = GoLand? I’m asking because I’m starting a new job and wondering whether to ask for IntelliJ license or GoLand license. Advantage of InteliJ is that it works for most programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript/JacaScript: all via Plugins) and I don’t think GoLand is as flexible.

I can't speak for GoLand but people make the same argument about webstorm and pycharm too occasionally... Which I both use.

They're slightly different as a lot of the java-only features are removed and a few things are preconfigured making the initial experience great.

I value that enough to spend the extra money for the full license (all products) vs just intellij from my personal money.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by rmk » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 9:53 PM UTC

absolute_unit22 wrote: post #104

rmk wrote: post #45

The GoLand IDE. Makes Go programming a breeze. Can't imagine programming in Go without it. Also used some of the other Intellij IDE's, including Intellij Idea (Java) and WebStorm (JavaScript). All very nice products.

I’m curious, have you tried just IntelliJ+Go plug-in ? From what I understand IntelliJ and Go plug-in = GoLand? I’m asking because I’m starting a new job and wondering whether to ask for IntelliJ license or GoLand license. Advantage of InteliJ is that it works for most programming languages (Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript/JacaScript: all via Plugins) and I don’t think GoLand is as flexible.

GoLand is pretty much a full-featured, Go-focused IDE. If you are going to be spending all your time or the majority of it in Go code, then you should get GoLand.

Re: Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Dec 29, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

> Sublime Merge

I'm a longtime (10+ years) user of Sublime Text (on macOS) personally and professionally, and I wish I could agree.

I've tried multiple times to get behind Sublime Merge, but the interface is just so complex and convoluted compared to tools like Tower, resolving a merge conflict on GitHub, or these days even using GitHub Desktop.

I don't love any of these git or merge tool alternatives the way I do Sublime Text, but it's always baffled me how different Sublime Merge feels in comparison. To me, Sublime Text looks and feels streamlined and well-designed, while Sublime Merge looks like someone in an Intro to Java GUIs class made while they were first learning about toolbars and widgets and just started spewing GUI components everywhere. It's never actually made merge resolutions easier than the alternatives to me.