Poetry, Pipx, VSCode, pre-commit, ruff, MyPy, Make(When used for non-C related stuff).
Recent GIMP versions, Realthunder's fork of FreeCad, PrusaSlicer, neofetch, Ardour, SculptGL, Vorta/Borg, Git Cola
Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
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#32Poetry, Pipx, VSCode, pre-commit, ruff, MyPy, Make(When used for non-C related stuff). Recent GIMP versions, Realthunder's fork of FreeCad, PrusaSlicer, neofetch, Ardour, SculptGL, Vorta/Borg, Git Cola
What do you like about VSCode?
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#33I really like to use Elm (yes the compiler and ecosystem around it). Good feedback when somethings goes bad, simple enough to learn in a weekend and allows me not to use JavaScript (which to my is a total kill-joy).
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#34Is there something like /r/eyebleach for software where you can go at the end of day? That being said, the best would be no screen at all and some greenery.
The hack for that is walking the dog after work.
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#35cowsay always makes me smile.
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#36WinAmp and MPC-HC are still my go-to zero-bullshit solutions for playing video and music. Inkscape and Dia manage to amaze me even after 15 years of working with them.
Ada (is programming language a software?) is my most recent discovery and I haven't experienced such pure joy of working with a programming language in, like, 10 years.
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#37Sublime text, Windows, Steam, VLC, OBS, Winamp, Chrome, 7-zip, Snipping Tool
What did you do to your Windows?
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#38I will be in the minority here but I really like Windows 10. Might be stockholm syndrome from work.
What exactly you might ask, well, just ... how it looks, for example. Still modern. I like the search bar. Dicking around in the registry. It's weird antics, like Win32 file namespace API not allowing folder names to end with a space but the file system supporting it so you end up with some weird behaviour if some scanner manages to create a folder with a trailing space and then you end up with two folders, one with a space at the end and one without, and you can't delete the one with the space without looking up \\?\
Stockholm syndrome.
(I also like Linux)
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#39I like writing HTML + vanilla JavaScript with zero dependencies in any simple text editor. Notepad++ on Windows, gedit or vim elsewhere.
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#40Total Commander, and Midnight Commander. We all do love exploring files, don't we?