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Omnigraffle is the software that originally convinced me to switch from windows to mac. I love it so much. Great features, simple UI that doesn't fiddle too much version to version and it basically never crashes on me.
Omniplan is indispensable for me as a project manager. I just wish there was something online as easy/fast to use with support for multiple project managers/projects.
OneNote. Works for me so much better than Evernote. Excellent cross-platform sync
1Password on Mac - phenomenal UX, all around joy to use Not as pleased with the Windows version, but it's serviceable
It's unfortunate that their browser extensions were an infrequently-upgraded, bloated mess (or at least they were before I stopped using it)
Reliable: vim, Microsoft Word/Excel, SQLite, tmux, GNU coreutils, svn I think most would agree with most of the items, although svn warrants an explanation. I prefer the paradigm of git, but svn always impresses me with its ability to handle large repositories and large files out of the box without falling over.
Also it was such a major pain when I had work with two other students on my final project that I ended up doing the last major changes in Open Office writer before reopening in Word to finish off the last details. Admittedly I guess this had a lot to do with how some people don't want to learn how to use styles but Word didn't help either.
I add this to every new project. Best cloud-based continuous integration platform I've used so far. Sane intelligent defaults, many projects start building out of the box. You can easily link it to Slack (another piece of reliable software) and start getting continuous feedback that your project is working correctly / is getting deployed - as it is being built.
* Linux
* vim
* tmux
* git
* ssh
* redis
* docker
* Sublime Text 3
VMWare Player. I needed to run Linux in a VM with nested virtualization and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. VirtualBox doesn't support the former and I couldn't get 3D acceleration to work even after installing the guest additions. Everything worked in VMWare Player right out of the gate.
Player is pretty nice no doubt. I also really like Vagrant + Virtualbox. Just works. And I can't believe Virtualbox is from the loins of Oracle.
It's almost an extension of my professional self at this point.
--Discovery. The search function has some weird responses sometimes, but I'm astounded how frequently the "Hints" feature finds documents about relatives that I'd never have found on my own. Ancestry's search has a huge understanding of which names might be mixed up with others -- I once found a census record from the late 19th century that had both a husband AND wife's name incorrectly tagged, but Ancestry found it anyway.
--Intuitive interface. After some initial confusion on the mobile app, it's been smooth sailing. Not only can you pull facts out of documents and attach them to relatives, but Ancestry preserves the "citations" so you can go back and figure out, "hm, how do I know so-and-so's birthday?" or "which facts did I already pull out of this record?" You can also link one record to multiple people in one action.
--An unimaginably broad corpus of documents. This one isn't really the software, I guess, but the amount of data Ancestry has access to is unbelievable. I figured out my great-grandmother had a child as a teenager (with a man who was not my great-grandfather) that nobody in my family ever talked about. I found the full text of a 300-year-old will from my sixth great-grandfather while I was sitting on my toilet.
Anyway, it's good.
Dev: Ruby (chruby/ruby-install), node, postgres, redis, elasticsearch, Dash, MacVim Console: zsh, iTerm, tmux Mac apps: Bartender, Hands Off!, Breakaway (a 10.10+ fork), coconutbattery, iStat Menus, flux, Forecast Bar, TotalFinder, Daisy Disk, VLC (+ trakt-for-vlc)
So if any Apple dev read this. Please bring this feature to tvOS, too!!! The cold light of my TV hurts my eyes more than ever these days, thanks to flux and night shift