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What software that you use daily “sparks joy” for you?

4 points by konsuko ↗ HN
Based on the "Kon Mari Method", where you clean your apartment by inspecting everything you own and intuitively judging whether or not it "sparks joy", which of your applications fit that feeling?

For me, it's software like: - Neovim - Zig - Alacritty - Reaper - Obsidian

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tagawa
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.
coder4life
pics Paint.NET or Faststone image viewer

audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions

text Notepad++

bsg75
Awk. I might be weird but it solves a myriad of tasks that land on me.
wrp
Some one-liners just give me goosebumps. So much power with minimal complexity. (Looking at you, Perl.)
namuol
Safari’s “Reader Mode” and the ability to make it default to on.
abudabi123
Sun Java running on Microsoft Windows.
gigatexal
Neovim, alacritty, i3 are my happy place.
LouDNL
Total Commander is arguably the one that brings me the most joy. Others are: Windows Terminal WSL1 VSCode Sun Java
ikeserbestian
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.

powersnail
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.

mfld
Emacs - getting better since 40+ years.

Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.

Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.

zig
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.