![]() ![]() Xnedit editor - classic NEdit modernized. Useful for margin notes in plain text files. Some of the other favourites include a bunch of old and obscure programs:īerkeley par paragraph formatter - formats tight paras. The GNUstep build has been remarkably glitch-free.įossil is self-contained and almost perfect for personal projects. I use a custom build with GNUstep as it produces a portable app bundle which can be used without installation. Perhaps it shows that in order to become an industry behemoth, it’s necessary to focus on things other than software quality.Įmacs for org-mode, eshell, eglot and the various modes. Even putting aside the downright evil aspects of surveillance and monopolistic tendencies, things like Google products, AWS products, Spotify, Twitter, Netflix are absolute rubbish – not in all ways of course, but in many important ways like UX or performance or reliability. What’s interesting is that the products from most of the industry behemoths (who should surely possess the capability to make good software) are comically bad. There are also many small mobile apps and games that are useful and just work year after year. On the PL front, I have a soft spot for Elm - it influenced both the quality of compiler error messages and the front end frameworks. DuckDuckGo is a decent enough search engine without surveillance thrown in. Bear is great for my personal cross-device knowledge base. Stripe is a good product with good UI for payment processing. AdGuard just chugs away in the background and is quite good for my sanity.įastmail is pleasant to use and doesn’t seem to cause me any issues. iTerm has been fading into the background and not bothering me for years. I’d say VSCode is surprisingly good it has problems but it’s something that seems like it can’t possibly function as well as it does so it’s notable for that at least. PostgreSQL and sqlite are remarkable pieces of software. You can have performance and still have security.Įven though I think our industry and its products are generally a wasteland, I was surprised to be able to come up with quite a few examples of great software when I started thinking about it. DD2.3 Power9 and the M1 prove that it doesn’t have to be this way. I can’t stand the performance penalties that Spectre mitigations have on there, even in the current generations. ![]() As soon as the other cloud providers catch up and provide alternatives to x86_64, I’ll be the first to migrate off. Production for my startup is split between aarch64 (Oracle Cloud) and x86_64 (Vultr/Akamai). I find syslog-ng easier to configure to push to remote log servers than journald, and that is not a positive take on syslog-ng. One thing is I just really don’t want to deal with journald when I don’t have to. It has a great community, great QA, and fantastic docs. If I had to use a glibc/systemd distro I would use Fedora. From my past experience that is not Alpine. I’ve encountered a lot of QA issues using Alpine in the past and while they are quick to fix things, I’d rather just use something that already works. I founded Adélie and still contribute to it (though no longer lead it) which is why I tend to use it. But for something long form, like a novel, where I need to maintain notes and references, I haven’t encountered anything as good as scrivener.Īll of my development takes place on ppc64 (a Talos II) or aarch64 (a Mac Studio M1 Ultra). ![]() I maintain a laptop from the late 90s that dual boots NetBSD/FreeDOS and often write in WordStar on it. To use an analogy: novelWriter is like Kate, usable and somewhat extendable, whereas Scrivener is like IntelliJ, batteries and even a UPS included.ĭon’t get me wrong, I like more minimalist setups occasionally. In Scrivener, I can drag and drop a web page or PDF into my project, and it’ll be archived there in full as something I can refer back to and annotate. It also didn’t have the same support for notes/supporting documents that scrivener does. Last time I used novelWriter, HiDPI support was lacking on macOS (Scrivener isn’t the only thing tying me to it unfortunately), and font-rendering was piss-poor (not a reflection on the authors of the novelWriter, it seemed to be related to HiDPI support and GTK+, which… yeah… there’s a reason I use KDE Plasma/QT on Linux). I’ve tried it (and manuskript, another similar tool), but there’s really no comparison at the moment. ![]()
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