Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.

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  Visual Studio Code

  Their words

  My primary code editor. Extensible, fast, and has excellent TypeScript support. The integrated terminal and Git features are fantastic.

  emanuelebartolesi.com

Writer and developer. He runs the Latent Space newsletter and podcast about AI engineering, and writes essays on software and careers at swyx.io.

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  pnpm

  Their words

  Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager

  swyx.io

American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Homebrew

  Their words

  Homebrew — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.

  jeffpaul.com

Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.

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  tmux

  Their words

  Tmux: Terminal multiplexer.

  carlosbecker.com

Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

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  For an experienced programmer the bottleneck is usually not thinking but typing, getting what is already in your head into the editor fast enough.

  developer tools

  Their words

  Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.

  youtube.com

Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  VS Code

  Their words

  I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.

  alialaa.dev

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  Nix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.

  Nixdeveloper tools

  Their words, before

  I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.

  Their words now

  I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me

Indian software developer working with React and TypeScript; writes and publishes a newsletter at sreetamdas.com.

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  Brew

  Their words

  Brew the package manager for macOS

  sreetamdas.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.

  developer tools

  Their words

  Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.

  Write plain text filessive.rs

Writer and education-technology critic; published Hack Education for a decade and wrote Teaching Machines.

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  Byword

  Their words

  For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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  NeoMutt

  Their words

  I use NeoMutt as my email client. It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.

  usesthis.com

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  Vim

  Their words

  I use NeoMutt as my email client. It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.

  usesthis.com

Artist and developer who makes esoteric software, games and tools aboard a sailboat as part of Hundred Rabbits with Rekka Bellum; creator of the Uxn virtual machine and the Orca livecoding environment.

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  Micro

  Their words

  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

  usesthis.com

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  cmus

  Their words

  here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.

  usesthis.com

German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  Sublime Text 3

  Their words

  Many years ago I bought a license for Sublime Text 3 and have been using it ever since. I don't use any IDEs, just a text editor.

  usesthis.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  mutt

  Their words

  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

  usesthis.com

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  WeeChat

  Their words

  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

  usesthis.com

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.

  developer tools

  Their words

  What I know and what I'm sure about is that without knowledge of parsing you won't be able to build tools like these.

  Higher Value Toolsthorstenball.com

Security technologist and author of books including Applied Cryptography and Data and Goliath; writes the Schneier on Security blog and the monthly Crypto-Gram newsletter.

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  Notepad++

  Their words

  If I need a text editor, I use Notepad++. Occasionally, I use Excel.

  usesthis.com

Web developer and writer; an early GitHub employee, author of speaking.io and of widely read essays on startups and product.

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  Atom

  Their words

  I write code in Atom, the text editor we've been working on for six years at GitHub. It's based on Chromium, so to customize it you can inspect it just like any other web element.

  usesthis.com

Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  Smultron

  Their words

  On my Macs, I use Smultron as a text editor when I am not in a bash shell, despite the fact that it is buggy.

  usesthis.com