I use it to “reduce distributed state” so that I can understand everything with just a function stack trace. SQLite (I start with this and then move to a SQL server if it cannot keep up with write throughput. Excel (I see this as just an advanced calculator. I’d prefer to pay a team to add core features instead of messing around with plugins). Webstorm (I switch languages often and I like to use the same keyboard shortcuts to navigate and search functions, types etc. These days I'm mostly modeling in 3D using OpenSCAD (which I'd like to find a better tool than - ideally one which can write out text files as part of 3D modeling), but I'm kind of stuck w/ OpenSCAD 'cause I use BlockSCAD as the front-end. Really miss PenPoint and its intensely notebook-oriented, object-oriented, component-centric UI - the high-water mark of my user interface experience was the year in college where I used an NCR-3125 running Go Corp.'s PenPoint as a mobile device, and a NeXT Cube w/ a Wacom ArtZ graphics tablet and Microtek ScanMaker 600ZS for input.
CRACKER XYPLORER MAC OS X
Really miss NeXT/OPENstep, and don't find Mac OS X comfortable at all (miss the Unix Expert checkbox). Macromedia Freehand is a tool I've been using since v1 of Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube - currently running it on Windows, I'll probably give up drawing on the computer and switch to paper and pen and pencil when it no longer runs Rather than Excel, I'd rather use Lotus Improv or Quantrix (wish that Flexisheet was in a usable state) I haven't been able to use it since I last tried Löve2d over 6 years ago, as I have actively been trying to but haven't gotten a chance to properly use it again, so I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. Currently I'm over the moon with Lua (pun intended), as I think it's a very neat little language housing a ton of power and expressiveness in an impressively tight package. I assume this is the way everything eventually goes.
CRACKER XYPLORER ANDROID
Vim, i3, linux distributions (arch and later slackware), the unix shell in general, various browsers, weechat/irc, android apps such as Transportr and Episodes (both in fdroid), programming languages (python and C), hell even websites and communities (such as this one), and many more things are tools that at one point I would've raved about, and while I still like them, their various sets of unfixable flaws keep me from fully enjoying them and recommending them whenever the topic comes up.
Lots of things which I used to sing the praises of have lost their magic to me. The more I use a tool the more I become aware of its warts and the more they start to irritate me. Probably I forgot about something - but these are most important. Jails containers for flexible, easy and fast separated environments ZFS Boot Environments with beadm(8) for bulletproof upgrades wine and dosbox for allowing 'alien' executables run with native speed on FreeBSD
rsync for its versatility in transferring/updating files audacity for simple audio modifications xnview image browser for finding similar images thunar file manager for its bulk rename feature gimp and inkscape for various graphics related stuff I tried to gather some of the reasons 'Why?' I prefer FreeBSD instead of other OSes but I probably did not covered everything that it brings:įrom 'smaller' tools I definitely appreciate that these exist (and use them daily): Not sure if OS fits into the 'tool' category but for me it was FreeBSD where I finally found home after trying various Linux distributions, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X and Windows. New candidates include zstd, Rust, Golang, STM32, RISC-V, lzip, Sympy, PARI/GP, Wayland, systemd, Guix, and XPra.Įxcel, Zoom, and Slack are proprietary, and I know better than to invest my time in proprietary tools I made that mistake already last millennium and lost my entire investment in Borland C++, Visual C++, MFC, Quattro Pro, DR-DOS, 4DOS, Visual Basic, Ultrix, AIX, SunOS 4, INFORMIX-OnLine, VMS, Epsilon, and an in-house source-control system that's blessedly forgotten today. I'd say 9/10 on Python, SQLite, Git, Emacs, Inkscape, Vim, screen, Bash, Lua, GCC, Audacity, Debian, Octave, Docker, R, Bitcoin, GDB, Matplotlib, OCaml, and Gnumeric Linux previously belonged to that list but has gotten dramatically worse over the last 25 years, even more noticeably than Python. Math, English, computers, TCP/IP, Wikipedia, willingness to change my mind when evidence shows I was wrong, coreutils, C, ssh, Hypothesis, gzip, Markdown, HTML, SQL, 8-bit AVRs, vise-grips, rsync, JS, zipfiles, less, Audacity, kitchen knives (steel and zirconia), CSS, wget, PNG, TeX, solder braid, SVG, PostScript, ffmpeg, LuaJIT, Tor, qemu, mpv, xxd, Arduino, yt-dlp, graphviz, Jupyter, netpbm, ImageMagick, and Numpy.
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