Ask HN: What are your favorite software products to use and why?
In any class - could be an operating system, desktop application, website, language, library, framework, mobile app, IDE etc.
Linux, git, Typora, Brave, VS code, Bulma, Serverless, AWS, Vue, Laravel, Deno, Rails, Koa, Flask, D3/ Vega, Pytourch, tensor flow, Kubernetes, Docker, Jest, Sendgrid, Twillio, Salesflare, Heyspace, Robbinhood, Twitter, Metalsmith, Stripe, Wave
Linux - Because it runs the modern world
git - because it runs the modern world, and saves me from myself
Typora - the cleanest markdown editor, it makes writing a pleasure
Brave - Fast, Build in Tor, ad blocking built in, and hopefully someday they will pay content creators fairly
VS code - minimal light code editor. Microsoft has done a great job
Bulma - The Easiest, cleanest css framework. The way they do columns is SOOOO easy to implement with emmit
Serverless - Great Wrapper around AWS lambda. Almost infinite scale without the hard work
Vue (&react) - great solution for many of the front end problems that we face daily
Laravel (&rails) - The epitome of great taste. for simple applications, laravel (&rails) will let you fly through things that you shouldn't have to think about
Deno - Still waiting to see more, but thus far it looks like Ryan Dahl has the ring of power
Koa - beautiful, minimal web framework for node
Flask - beautiful, minimal web framework for python
D3 & Vega - Vega is an awesome wrapper to simplify charting and data visualizations in D3. D3 is the most powerful data visualization framework period.
Pytourch (and maybe the updated Tensorflow???) - Deep Learning is new for me... but I couldn't ever imagine implementing what they have with tourch and TF by myself. Big achievement for humanity
K8s & docker - Similar to my feelings about serverless. Being able to scale infinitely without personal overhead is awesome
Jest- My go to testing framework. I like it because of the little creature comforts.
Sendgrid - simplicity for transactional mail, I love their UI too. really easy to get around in and get work done
Twillio - makes interacting with SMS a pleasure. Their interface/ API design is sharp and easy to work with
Salesflare - Great minimal CMS. working in it is way more efficient than any other product (SF, Sugar)
HeySpace - Really impressed me even though I don't use it anymore :( had to move to a proprietary thing.
Robbinhood - Makes trading stocks fun! I really like the UI too. (Looking at tastyworks though)
Twitter - Has helped me find people and learn things I never would have before.
Metalsmith - Super flexible SSG. I really like the way that they give control to the developer for building out sites. SSGs were also a revelation. Combined with typora I've been writing blog articles more than ever.
Stripe - the UI and APIs are beautiful
Wave - great little small business accounting system.
I'm still looking for: - a minimal, well-documented CI/CD system thats affordable for a single dev ($7-$21/month. CircleCI is the closest)
- a marketing email system that is fairly priced
- a proposal generating system that is fairly priced
- a better banking solution
- a better way to automate KPI measurement
- contract version control, with redlining capabilities, for a fair price
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