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RE: Favorite software

RE: this post.

Immediately what comes to mind for favorite pieces of software is ngninx and prosody, especially compared to apache (#changethename) and ejabberd. So straight-forward and clean.

dwm is also great. I hope the nazi stuff from precious threads on here is just BS. It’s a really good piece of code.

For music, seq24 (I guess new sequencer64 iirc) and audacity. Hexter and whysynth are still my fave synths. It’s been a decade since I did music but I have some plans to get back into it, with hydrogen.

For drawing, I use mypaint, krita, gimp (#changethename), blender, inkscape all for different things. That last one is, uh, it’s hard to love because of its keyboard unfriendliness. Usually what I wanna do is deep in a nested dialog. Blender and Gimp are much better at being scriptable, remappable, adaptable to doing things beyond just the basics.

Programming languages... inform 7! I guess even when the job is to list software I actually like, I can’t help thinking about it in terms of replacing software I didn’t like, such as inform 6. Inform 7 is a declarative dream.

For writing, markdown-mode in emacs.

History: I never had Atari, Commodore or Amiga. We started on Win 3.1, went to DOS from there (kind of a backwards evolution? Just loved CLI) then win 95, win 98, KDE, Blackbox, Ion, OpenBox, and now DWM. KDE was just a few weeks and the switch to OpenBox was in 2003. I’ve been on dwm for ages and ages and ages.