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Ask HN: What software are you thankful for?
- superchroma 4y agoBlender by a country mile. Free forever, cohesive and powerful, and growing to boot. It's a shining light in the darkness; the platonic ideal of what free software can be.
- SanjayMehta 4y ago1. Scrivener 2. Reeder 3. VLC
- ffsoftboiled 4y agoSumatraPDF. Best pdf/epub/mobi/cbz reader.
- gaws 4y agoHow is it better than, say, evince?
- CrypticShift 4y agoSpotify. This is a highly controversial choice. Most artists and a lot of people (including many of its own users) are critical of the company. However the music explorer in me can't help but feel gratified, every day.
- SpiralLibrarium 4y agoI'm in a similar boat. Ever since Google Play Music went bust, it's been my go-to for better or worse.
- wiihack 4y agoGoogle Docs. I use it every day and it's a pleasure.
- daltont 4y agoFfmpeg and pretty much any free IDE.
- billylo 4y agoOctoprint (3D printing job management) Flipboard (news reader, still the best UX)
- mikewarot 4y agoGIT -- You have no idea how much better it is to be able to use git to push changes to a remote repository and have high confidence the copy is intact. It is WAY better than a stack of floppy disks with the words Project Name / Backup mm/dd/yyyy on them.
- hw-guy 4y agoArduino IDE. Eagle (Free PCB Layout tool). LTSpice.
- simonblack 4y ago"WordStar" In its original persona on both CP/M and MSDOS I used it as a text editor. On Linux I use "jstar" which is a WordStar clone, as one of the alter-egos of "joe". I could also use "wordtsar" but "jstar" works for me. I even rename "jstar" to 'ws' to maintain my imprinting over nearly 40 years of usage.