For me, it's software like: - Neovim - Zig - Alacritty - Reaper - Obsidian
- 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.
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.
I spend a lot of time working in databases and this has been a huge quality of life improvement over ssms and related tools.
Ripgrep - Fast & exactly the results I need.
Google Chat (!) - simple and just works.
audio Audacity or Foobar2000 with DSP extensions
text Notepad++