What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?
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Computer:
- tmux - fish
These two have become part of my terminal muscle memory, and I've got nothing to complain about them. Not saying that they are perfect, but for my use case, everything works reliably.
- Zoxide
A sort of keyword based `cd`, I guess. So useful that I've rarely `cd` these days.
- Jellyfin
Very happy about it. I used to make little python servers to serve mp4 files for my phone to play, but Jellyfin is miles better. And I don't have to worry about video codec.
- Caddy
As someone who never fully outgrown my confusions about nginx's configurations, caddy is such a helpful alternative.
Phone apps:
- Libby
Access to libraries for ebooks and audiobooks. My favorite phone app.
- Tuner
This one specifically (cause there are a million tuner apps out there): https://github.com/thetwom/Tuner
Use it daily for tuning my violin. Clean, readable interface. It works reliably and is Free, free, and ad-free.
- tmux - fish
These two have become part of my terminal muscle memory, and I've got nothing to complain about them. Not saying that they are perfect, but for my use case, everything works reliably.
- Zoxide
A sort of keyword based `cd`, I guess. So useful that I've rarely `cd` these days.
- Jellyfin
Very happy about it. I used to make little python servers to serve mp4 files for my phone to play, but Jellyfin is miles better. And I don't have to worry about video codec.
- Caddy
As someone who never fully outgrown my confusions about nginx's configurations, caddy is such a helpful alternative.
Phone apps:
- Libby
Access to libraries for ebooks and audiobooks. My favorite phone app.
- Tuner
This one specifically (cause there are a million tuner apps out there): https://github.com/thetwom/Tuner
Use it daily for tuning my violin. Clean, readable interface. It works reliably and is Free, free, and ad-free.
- Neovim
- fish
- WezTerm (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm)
- Logseq
- Arc (https://arc.net)
- fish
- WezTerm (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm)
- Logseq
- Arc (https://arc.net)
Debian, Emacs, w3m mostly.
Maybe Firefox and Vivaldi to a degree but I would prefer more simple "world wide web" infrastructure if possible.
Years ago I was enjoy using 7zip, IrfanView and Winamp on Windows.
Let's more nostalgia; I was fond of almost every software on Amiga and of course AmigaOS/Workbench. I'm not a designer or musician but Deluxe Paint and Protracker makes me happy.
Turbo Assembler, Koala Paint, DMC and JCH music editors, GEOS from Commodore 64.
Not really using it daily nowadays, but OpenBSD still giving me sweet sixteen vibes.
Maybe Firefox and Vivaldi to a degree but I would prefer more simple "world wide web" infrastructure if possible.
Years ago I was enjoy using 7zip, IrfanView and Winamp on Windows.
Let's more nostalgia; I was fond of almost every software on Amiga and of course AmigaOS/Workbench. I'm not a designer or musician but Deluxe Paint and Protracker makes me happy.
Turbo Assembler, Koala Paint, DMC and JCH music editors, GEOS from Commodore 64.
Not really using it daily nowadays, but OpenBSD still giving me sweet sixteen vibes.
Airtable (and others like it). Having a user-friendly spreadsheet that doubles as an easy website backend is like a dream compared to my early days of web development.
Datagrip.
I spend a lot of time working in databases and this has been a huge quality of life improvement over ssms and related tools.
I spend a lot of time working in databases and this has been a huge quality of life improvement over ssms and related tools.
Total Commander is arguably the one that brings me the most joy.
Others are:
Windows Terminal
WSL1
VSCode
Sun Java
Emacs - getting better since 40+ years.
Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.
Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.
Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.
Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.
Safari’s “Reader Mode” and the ability to make it default to on.
/bin/shutdown
Right now Arc browser
Neovim, alacritty, i3 are my happy place.
Sun Java running on Microsoft Windows.
Blender. With a wide margin.
pics Paint.NET or Faststone image viewer
audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions
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audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions
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Ffmpeg
For me, it's software like: - Neovim - Zig - Alacritty - Reaper - Obsidian