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

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Post by beingflo »

neeeeees wrote: post #61
beingflo wrote: post #7

Caddy [0] has been an absolute joy to work with. I switched this year from nginx for my sideproject-hosting VPS. Just letting it handle the SSL certs and configuring a static site or a reverse proxied route in literally 3 lines of config is really nice. I'm planning on adding Authelia [1], Prometheus and Grafana Loki to the mix soon, which should all integrate nicely :) [0] https://caddyserver.com/ [1] https://www.au…

Interesting! I liked the configurability, but it was horribly slow with SSL. Possibly due to uncached DNS lookups but I didn’t dig too deep.

I've only started load testing my applications until after I switched to Caddy, so I don't have a comparison. But I'm easily seeing ~7'000 r/s when serving a static frontend (don't have reverse proxy numbers on hand) on a small hetzner machine. That's without looking into what the bottleneck is. Against localhost I've seen ~50'000 r/s. Good enough for me.

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

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Post by RichardCA »

MAME with the Pegasus front-end.

I was able to pull together a retrogaming system and show it off to my neighbors kids. And the availablity of controllers like the 8BitDo Pro 2 allow for a fully functional system.

https://www.mamedev.org/

https://pegasus-frontend.org/

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

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Post by absolute_unit22 »

rmk wrote: post #109
absolute_unit22 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks! I think I will probably go ahead and do that; thanks :)

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

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Post by lycopodiopsida »

- Neovim: so good and so fast, it is almost criminal. The pace of the ecosystem ATM is very good.

- iTerm: More comfortable than running tmux, still a lot of control over tabs and splits.

- LaunchBar: Old, but still like it more than Alfred.

- Clippy: this is how compiler errors should look like in 202*.

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Post by threesmegiste »

n8cpdx wrote: post #25

For 2022, Obsidian on iOS and Mac (with PDF Expert for annotating PDFs in my vault). For all time, Preview.app on macOS, possibly the single greatest advantage Mac has over Windows.

Preview.app is so much underestimated. i realized its importance when i use my windows machine. perfect app. miss u so much :(

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

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Post by disqard »

solarkraft wrote: post #79
swlkr wrote: post #72

- helix https://helix-editor.com/ - cleanshot x https://cleanshot.com/ - btm https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

> helix > select syntax tree nodes instead of plain text Now that is interesting! I wish we could leave the text age for programming already. This doesn't seem to be that (it very much claims to be a text editor), but maybe people working on semantic enhancements for program editing can learn something here.

Since you specifically articulated it using those words, I'll point you to BlockStudio, which is a new programming paradigm (an extension of Graphical Rewrite Rules).

Yes, I designed and implemented it, so I'm biased, but I believe it's one path that breaks away from our current text-centric approach to coding.

https://blockstud.io

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Post by zachlatta »

bojangleslover wrote: post #54
zachlatta wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you talk more about how you used Tailscale to replace Zoom?

*to replace Zoom screen sharing I used MacOS screen sharing and simply connected to the Tailscale IP—far, far smoother than any other screen sharing software I've used. Then I used FaceTime audio to chat (or WhatsApp, Signal, etc).

Awesome, thanks!

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

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Post by escapedmoose »

solarkraft wrote: post #77
escapedmoose wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded. Many of my random thoughts in Notes have become full-blown projects with great results. The best part is that I never even think about it, so it’s analogous to carrying a notebook around at all times. I’ve tried PKM apps like Obsidian and a few others, but none are quite as effortless or support drawing as well. I do wish the Pencil was supported on phones.

> I do wish the [Apple] Pencil was supported on phones I have a Galaxy Note 10 and am not the biggest fan, but maybe if I didn't insist on using it with an incompatible screen protector and free software my writing experience would be better.

I haven’t personally been impressed with Samsung (or Microsoft) styluses. However, people do create some beautiful art with them. The Apple Pencil feels completely natural to me, almost indistinguishable from an ink pen in Notes, but… again it doesn’t work on the phones.
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