Docker would be on the list for me - for reproducible environments.
Probably JUnit as it was my first real testing framework - for being able to use test driven development for hard problems.
With programming, I had so many "aha"-moments, it's hard to remember them. It's not all about software, but more about understanding the concepts and being able to transfer this knowledge. Being able to pass functions or function pointers. Streaming / piping data instead of a fixed data structure. Interpreted vs compiled languages. How everything we do here only happens through a long list of 0s and 1s and how this clever setup makes us even see graphics on the screen. Or hear audio through a screen reader....
Thanks for the insight! I guess it's a hard problem to solve with these conflicts. I'm wondering how it could be automatically resolved if a user has the same thing open multiple times with changes to the same password...
Did you try diffing the conflicting databases through a tool like keepass-diff before switching?
I'm the author of keepass-diff and built it for my own needs. Looking through the comments here about why people switched from Keepass to Bitwarden, it feels like the compare feature is something that should be integrated to UI clients as many people seem to face this problem. I always assumed it was more because of permissions and better ability to work with it as a team...
The sync conflicts happened to me whenever I left keepass databases open and changed it on multiple devices. Usually, those changes were adding new accounts into the databases or changing a password on one while adding something on the other. This regularly happened when working in a team.
I assumed people would switch from Keepass + database synced on a private server to something else when they started working in teams and need better/easier permission models. :)
As you have mentioned it, I have written the tool keepass-diff (<https://github.com/Narigo/keepass-diff/>) to help me for exactly these conflicts and I could quickly resolve the issues with it. It was still useful enough to let me keep using Keepass. Was it not working for you or was it too hard to use because of how it needs to be set up first? Would you have stayed with Keepass + sync if something similar to this was integrated into UI clients?
With programming, I had so many "aha"-moments, it's hard to remember them. It's not all about software, but more about understanding the concepts and being able to transfer this knowledge. Being able to pass functions or function pointers. Streaming / piping data instead of a fixed data structure. Interpreted vs compiled languages. How everything we do here only happens through a long list of 0s and 1s and how this clever setup makes us even see graphics on the screen. Or hear audio through a screen reader....