Ask HN: What is your favorite software that you adopted in 2019?

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ScanKey.

I wrote in its App Store review that it shouldn’t be free.

It’s a soft keyboard with integrated barcode scanner AND OCR scanner for iOS.

It saves me a ton of time.

Oh I’ve been asking for this for years. I couldn’t believe it didn’t exist. Finally does, thanks for this!

Original use case I had was having a long password on one device on screen but needing to enter it on a different one.

Godot engine. I've finally found something that enables me doing some silly small games I've always wanted to do in short amount of time.
Visual Studio Code. It feels like every other week there is another release with one or two very useful features.
Mermaidjs and plantuml.

Being able to make technical diagrams and version them is great.

flex and bison. GNU Forth. PostScript + GhostScript.
Two  menu bar apps:

- Shush: Quickly mute and unmute your microphone using a hotkey (e.g. fn).

- Clocker: Easy way to keep track of your friends and colleagues in different time zones.