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

by konsuko on 12/20/22, 5:21 AM with 17 comments

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

  • by powersnail on 12/20/22, 10:41 AM

    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.

  • by alwillis on 12/28/22, 4:56 AM

    - Neovim

    - fish

    - WezTerm (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm)

    - Logseq

    - Arc (https://arc.net)

  • by bsg75 on 12/20/22, 5:34 AM

    Awk. I might be weird but it solves a myriad of tasks that land on me.

  • by ikeserbestian on 12/20/22, 8:45 AM

    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.

  • by tagawa on 12/20/22, 5:27 AM

    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.

  • by zig on 12/20/22, 12:21 PM

    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.

  • by LouDNL on 12/20/22, 6:50 AM

    Total Commander is arguably the one that brings me the most joy. Others are: Windows Terminal WSL1 VSCode Sun Java

  • by mfld on 12/20/22, 11:06 AM

    Emacs - getting better since 40+ years.

    Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.

    Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.

  • by namuol on 12/20/22, 6:05 AM

    Safari’s “Reader Mode” and the ability to make it default to on.

  • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on 12/20/22, 6:17 AM

    /bin/shutdown

  • by rchaves on 12/20/22, 5:22 AM

    Right now Arc browser

  • by gigatexal on 12/20/22, 6:35 AM

    Neovim, alacritty, i3 are my happy place.

  • by abudabi123 on 12/20/22, 6:24 AM

    Sun Java running on Microsoft Windows.

  • by brettkromkamp on 12/20/22, 6:02 AM

    Blender. With a wide margin.

  • by coder4life on 12/20/22, 5:30 AM

    pics Paint.NET or Faststone image viewer

    audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions

    text Notepad++

  • by austin-cheney on 12/20/22, 9:30 AM

    Ffmpeg