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Ask HN: What 5 software tools do you use most for work?

28 points by cagrimmett 9y ago

What 5 software tools do you use most for work and what is your job? Another way of asking this: What software tools would someone need to learn if they had your job?

pwason 9y ago
Firefox, M$ Office (:/), XenCenter, RoyalTS (all on Windows), and misc. Linuxy stuff.. I'm the IT Guy for a small non-profit research and development company in the higher education sector. Firefox is used for Spiceworks, various web-based management consoles for our storage devices (and webmin on Linux VMs), and general web stuff. M$ Office is mostly just Outlook and Excel. XenCenter to manage our XenServer infrastructure, and RoyalTS is for RDC-ing to various servers and workstations. Most Linux admin is done via webmin, or shell.
Communitivity 9y ago
Emacs, Eclipse, Lein, Maven, Node. Two additional ones are in my kit box by default, for different reasons, Java and MS Office. Java is required for Lein, Eclipse, and Maven, and occasional Java components. Node is needed for tool automation, in my case. Emacs is used for general editing needs, and Clojure coding. MS Office is needed because any delivery which does not include documentation doesn't count, and many I work with require documentation in MS Office form.
AnimalMuppet 9y ago
Emacs, gcc, Android Studio, Putty, and, um, Outlook.
twobyfour 9y ago
Software team lead / manager. Aside from the self-evident non-role-specific stuff (browser, email, slack): 1) Jira 2) [Text editor of choice] 3) Mac/Unix command line 4) Git 5) [To-do manager of choice]
NumberCruncher 9y ago
Data Scientist: SQL Developer, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Excel, Jira We are a "SAS shop", therefore SAS is a must. Knowing other SAS products helps to recognize when a statement like "it is not possible" in reality means "I am not in the mood for working".
superasn 9y ago
[1] PhpStorm [2] adminer [3] Gdocs [4] Putty [5] Dropbox
wry_discontent 9y ago
Emacs, Chrome, Pry, Heroku, Git
1_player 9y ago
Full stack freelance engineer: Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Trello, Google Chrome, and Skype :(
- anywherenotes 9y ago
  don't like skype?
  - devopsproject 9y ago
    I'm sorry, you are breaking up. Can you repeat that?
jakebellacera 9y ago
Marketing web developer. Do web applications count? Atom, git, PHP, Databricks, Google Docs
jamesjguthrie 9y ago
Research engineer Every single working day for the past 3 or 4 years vim, terminal, C++, Chrome, and just recently CUDA.
- RUG3Y 9y ago
  Sounds fun =)
redpandaattac 9y ago
Game producer: Unity, Sourcetree, Trello, Sketch.app, Apple Notes
tmaly 9y ago
vim, tmux, bash, perl, make
cm2012 9y ago
Marketing consultant: Facebook ads Google ads Microsoft excel Google analytics/analytics of choice Mailchimp/Email automation of choice Zapier
kc10 9y ago
Fullstack engineer IntelliJ at home(Eclipse at work), Sublime, Office Suite, Sequel Pro, Chrome Dev Tools
qmarchi 9y ago
Hourly Programmer: * VS Code * TypeScript * _technically_ open source orchestration platform * Vivaldi * Sketch.app
akg_67 9y ago
Freelance Data Analyst/Data Engineering/Data Science... R, Python, Jupyter, Tableau, MySQL Workbench
mijndert 9y ago
Infrastructure engineer: iTerm, Sublime Text, 1Password, Slack, Google Chrome.
fuzzygroup 9y ago
Software Engineer: iTerm, TextMate, Enpass, Ruby, Git
richardknop 9y ago
Terminal (this is a requirement if you want to do any software related job other than .NET I guess), some sort of a text editor with code code highlighting (Sublime), internet browser (reading documentation is a big part of my job), email client (reading & replying to work emails), version control (git). Those are basics but there are additional tools which you'll probably need to use daily as well (JIRA, Slack or their equivalents, for example).
robpethick 9y ago
C# Software Developer: Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL Server, web browser, slack
12s12m 9y ago
1. Gnome Terminal 2. Neovim 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro) 5. Git
eswat 9y ago
Product Designer/Developer Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision
29052017 9y ago
SW Developer, Growth Hacker, Founder Heres the list:- 1. Operating system ( mostly Linux ) 2. Desktop ( mostly gnome ) 3. Keyboard/mouse/LCD .... drivers .. ( can't work without them, eh! ) 4. Browser ( mostly firefox ) 5. Google ( its a SW tool alright! )
awhiskeyshot 9y ago
1. Cygwin (Babun) 2. Sublime Text 3. Slack 4. Chrome 5. Mercurial
lambdafan 9y ago
Linux Haskell (stack) emacs (magit, intero)
RUG3Y 9y ago
- GNOME Terminal - Sublime Text 3 - Chrome / dev tools - Virtualenvs / Virtualenvwrapper
itsuzan 9y ago
Notepad++, Oracle SQL Developer, Google Chrome, Skype for Business
spcelzrd 9y ago
- Xcode - iOS Simulator - git - vim - bash (to automate things)
drakonka 9y ago
* Visual Studio * Notepad++ * Search Everything * Terminal * Google Chrome
justinclift 9y ago
Doing Go web application dev: • Linux (Fedora 25 atm), as debugging in Go only works well on Linux. Would use OSX if Go debugging actually worked properly there. ;) • Gogland (JetBrains Go IDE) • Terminal • pgAdmin (PostgreSQL GUI) • Git • and various web browsers
tumdum_ 9y ago
ssh, zsh, tmux, xterm, vim. In no particular order! I work in telco as sw dev.
T3RMINATED 9y ago
1. Windows 10 is the Best 2. Sublime 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro) 5. TeamViewer
amirouche 9y ago
As developper: 1. a GNU/Linux (Ubuntu or Debian) 2. urxvt or terminology, I use always the same commnands (cd, ls, git, emacs, find, ag) 3. emacs with elpy, rainbow-delimiters and web-mode using monokai theme 4. i3 window manager 5. weechat And I am looking for a proper email client (webmail or whatever).
aguilarm 9y ago
Sysadmin/web developer: kubectl/docker, Terminal, Intellij/jetbrains IDEs, Unix tooling, Git
miguelrochefort 9y ago
- Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server - Git - Outlook - Chrome
donaltroddyn 9y ago
CTO: 1. Chrome 2. Pycharm 3. Docker 4. Git 5. Boto TBH though, a lot of my time is spent in Gmail (in Chrome) these days.
OMARIONCLOVIS 9y ago
WHAT SOFTWARE DO USE IN YOUR EVER DAY FIFE OF BEING HACK
yshiran 9y ago
As a quality owner, I use Lotus Notes, Jira, PPT, Excel, and other in-house DB applications.

28 points by cagrimmett 9y ago

What 5 software tools do you use most for work and what is your job? Another way of asking this: What software tools would someone need to learn if they had your job?

pwason 9y ago

Firefox, M$ Office (:/), XenCenter, RoyalTS (all on Windows), and misc. Linuxy stuff.. I'm the IT Guy for a small non-profit research and development company in the higher education sector. Firefox is used for Spiceworks, various web-based management consoles for our storage devices (and webmin on Linux VMs), and general web stuff. M$ Office is mostly just Outlook and Excel. XenCenter to manage our XenServer infrastructure, and RoyalTS is for RDC-ing to various servers and workstations. Most Linux admin is done via webmin, or shell.

Communitivity 9y ago

Emacs, Eclipse, Lein, Maven, Node. Two additional ones are in my kit box by default, for different reasons, Java and MS Office. Java is required for Lein, Eclipse, and Maven, and occasional Java components. Node is needed for tool automation, in my case. Emacs is used for general editing needs, and Clojure coding. MS Office is needed because any delivery which does not include documentation doesn't count, and many I work with require documentation in MS Office form.

AnimalMuppet 9y ago

Emacs, gcc, Android Studio, Putty, and, um, Outlook.

twobyfour 9y ago

Software team lead / manager. Aside from the self-evident non-role-specific stuff (browser, email, slack): 1) Jira 2) [Text editor of choice] 3) Mac/Unix command line 4) Git 5) [To-do manager of choice]

NumberCruncher 9y ago

Data Scientist: SQL Developer, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Excel, Jira We are a "SAS shop", therefore SAS is a must. Knowing other SAS products helps to recognize when a statement like "it is not possible" in reality means "I am not in the mood for working".

superasn 9y ago

[1] PhpStorm [2] adminer [3] Gdocs [4] Putty [5] Dropbox

wry_discontent 9y ago

Emacs, Chrome, Pry, Heroku, Git

1_player 9y ago

Full stack freelance engineer: Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Trello, Google Chrome, and Skype :(

anywherenotes 9y ago
don't like skype?
- devopsproject 9y ago
  I'm sorry, you are breaking up. Can you repeat that?

jakebellacera 9y ago

Marketing web developer. Do web applications count? Atom, git, PHP, Databricks, Google Docs

jamesjguthrie 9y ago

Research engineer Every single working day for the past 3 or 4 years vim, terminal, C++, Chrome, and just recently CUDA.

RUG3Y 9y ago
Sounds fun =)

redpandaattac 9y ago

Game producer: Unity, Sourcetree, Trello, Sketch.app, Apple Notes

tmaly 9y ago

vim, tmux, bash, perl, make

cm2012 9y ago

Marketing consultant: Facebook ads Google ads Microsoft excel Google analytics/analytics of choice Mailchimp/Email automation of choice Zapier

kc10 9y ago

Fullstack engineer IntelliJ at home(Eclipse at work), Sublime, Office Suite, Sequel Pro, Chrome Dev Tools

qmarchi 9y ago

Hourly Programmer: * VS Code * TypeScript * _technically_ open source orchestration platform * Vivaldi * Sketch.app

akg_67 9y ago

Freelance Data Analyst/Data Engineering/Data Science... R, Python, Jupyter, Tableau, MySQL Workbench

mijndert 9y ago

Infrastructure engineer: iTerm, Sublime Text, 1Password, Slack, Google Chrome.

fuzzygroup 9y ago

Software Engineer: iTerm, TextMate, Enpass, Ruby, Git

richardknop 9y ago

Terminal (this is a requirement if you want to do any software related job other than .NET I guess), some sort of a text editor with code code highlighting (Sublime), internet browser (reading documentation is a big part of my job), email client (reading & replying to work emails), version control (git). Those are basics but there are additional tools which you'll probably need to use daily as well (JIRA, Slack or their equivalents, for example).

robpethick 9y ago

C# Software Developer: Visual Studio, VS Code, SQL Server, web browser, slack

12s12m 9y ago

1. Gnome Terminal 2. Neovim 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro) 5. Git

eswat 9y ago

Product Designer/Developer Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision

29052017 9y ago

SW Developer, Growth Hacker, Founder Heres the list:- 1. Operating system ( mostly Linux ) 2. Desktop ( mostly gnome ) 3. Keyboard/mouse/LCD .... drivers .. ( can't work without them, eh! ) 4. Browser ( mostly firefox ) 5. Google ( its a SW tool alright! )

awhiskeyshot 9y ago

1. Cygwin (Babun) 2. Sublime Text 3. Slack 4. Chrome 5. Mercurial

lambdafan 9y ago

Linux Haskell (stack) emacs (magit, intero)

RUG3Y 9y ago

- GNOME Terminal - Sublime Text 3 - Chrome / dev tools - Virtualenvs / Virtualenvwrapper

itsuzan 9y ago

Notepad++, Oracle SQL Developer, Google Chrome, Skype for Business

spcelzrd 9y ago

- Xcode - iOS Simulator - git - vim - bash (to automate things)

drakonka 9y ago

* Visual Studio * Notepad++ * Search Everything * Terminal * Google Chrome

justinclift 9y ago

Doing Go web application dev: • Linux (Fedora 25 atm), as debugging in Go only works well on Linux. Would use OSX if Go debugging actually worked properly there. ;) • Gogland (JetBrains Go IDE) • Terminal • pgAdmin (PostgreSQL GUI) • Git • and various web browsers

tumdum_ 9y ago

ssh, zsh, tmux, xterm, vim. In no particular order! I work in telco as sw dev.

T3RMINATED 9y ago

1. Windows 10 is the Best 2. Sublime 3. Google Chrome 4. Pymodoro (https://github.com/dattanchu/pymodoro) 5. TeamViewer

amirouche 9y ago

As developper: 1. a GNU/Linux (Ubuntu or Debian) 2. urxvt or terminology, I use always the same commnands (cd, ls, git, emacs, find, ag) 3. emacs with elpy, rainbow-delimiters and web-mode using monokai theme 4. i3 window manager 5. weechat And I am looking for a proper email client (webmail or whatever).

aguilarm 9y ago

Sysadmin/web developer: kubectl/docker, Terminal, Intellij/jetbrains IDEs, Unix tooling, Git

miguelrochefort 9y ago

- Visual Studio - Team Foundation Server - Git - Outlook - Chrome

donaltroddyn 9y ago

CTO: 1. Chrome 2. Pycharm 3. Docker 4. Git 5. Boto TBH though, a lot of my time is spent in Gmail (in Chrome) these days.

OMARIONCLOVIS 9y ago

WHAT SOFTWARE DO USE IN YOUR EVER DAY FIFE OF BEING HACK

yshiran 9y ago

As a quality owner, I use Lotus Notes, Jira, PPT, Excel, and other in-house DB applications.