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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

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  Syncthing

  Their words

  I switched to using Syncthing to avoid the overhead of running a server instance, which works particularly well when combined with Tailscale.

  jnsgr.uk

Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  ASUS ROG Swift PG27UCDM

  Their words

  Since I switched the monitor, I have never experienced a failure. The system works perfectly, flawlessly waking the laptop and bringing the desktop online in under a second.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand

  Their words

  I prefer using monitor arms over the default stand that most monitors come with, and at the end of 2022 I switched to the HUANUO Dual Monitor Stand. It's a single mount with two monitor arms, and it holds the monitors in place nicely. Each arm is flexible in where I can position them.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  He runs tests locally and pushes straight to main, DHH-style; there is no develop branch and main should always be shippable.

  Their words

  I even switched to local CI, you know, like DHH inspired where I don't care so much more about the CI on GitHub. We still have it. It's still, it still has a place, but I just run tests locally and if they work locally, I push to main.

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Freelance web developer and instructor. Author of the Dive Into Docker course; writes tutorials on Docker, deployment and development environments at nickjanetakis.com.

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  KeePassXC

  Their words

  For password management I used a command line tool called pass. I switched to KeepassXC in mid-2025.

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  Microsoft PowerToys

  Their words

  For launching applications, I used Keypirinha in about 2017 and then I switched to Microsoft PowerToys in May 2020.

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  Firefox

  Their words

  I used Opera as a browser in 2006 for ~8 years, then I tried Firefox and went to Chrome until March 2025 when finally I switched back to Firefox.

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Indonesian fullstack engineer, speaker and instructor; writes about JavaScript, SvelteKit and Linux tooling at kalwabed.com.

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  Fira Code

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  Fira Code: my favorite dev font since I first encountered it. And now I switched to Iosevka for good reason.

  kalwabed.com

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  Arch Linux

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  Arch Linux: has become my go-to distro after years of using EndeavourOS. I've recently switched to Hyprland as my window manager, and it's been a game-changer. Currently, I'm using CachyOS with KDE. It's been a great experience so far! Here's my

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

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  Safari

  Their words

  I switched to Firefox when Safari 15 was released. John Gruber summarized the issues I had with it perfectly. Since Apple reverted their design changes in recent releases, I'm back at using Safari as my primary

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Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.

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  Pixelmator Pro

  Their words

  is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.

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  Photoshop

  Their words

  is an Incredible image & photo editor. I switched to it completely from Photoshop about a year ago and haven’t looked back.

  nuclearbits.com

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  Unread

  Their words

  I was using Reeder 5 for the longest time, but since that seems to have been abandoned, I’ve switched to Unread as my RSS app recently.

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

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  Starship

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  I switched to zsh around 2013 and have used it every day since: starting with the infamous Oh My Zsh, powerlevel9k, and subsequently powerlevel10k, and finally settling on Starship with a couple of zsh plugins such as zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting.

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Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.

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  England switched from wood to coal because deforestation had made firewood scarce.

  On changing their mind

  As I set out last time, the usual story — that this was caused by deforestation, making firewood so scarce that people resorted to burning an inferior but cheaper fuel — simply does not stack up.

Pen name of the Canadian-American writer behind mrmoneymustache.com, a blog on frugality, early retirement and index-fund investing that has run since 2011.

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  Google Fi

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  I switched to Google Fi in 2015 for worldwide, $20-per-month phone service that just works.

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  Safeco

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  So I switched to Safeco, and so far rates have been stable. I am paying about $500 per year for a $275,000 rebuild coverage with $5k deductible.

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Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.

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  Kindle

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  Audiobooks is what got me started on my reading journey. I've since switched to the Kindle for the majority of my reading but I keep Audible specifically for biographies.

  seastone.io

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  Audible

  Their words

  Audiobooks is what got me started on my reading journey. I've since switched to the Kindle for the majority of my reading but I keep Audible specifically for biographies.

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Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.

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  Notion

  Their words

  Notion - Too slow to use, and my current team switched to Jira.

  garden.narze.live

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

American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.

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  Arc Browser

  Their words

  I recently switched to Arc Browser, so some of these no longer apply.

  mina.codes

Brazilian-American staff software engineer working on platforms, AI and developer productivity. Writes about engineering and his setup at ivansantos.me.

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  Raycast

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  I've been using Alfred for many years and have many workflows but have recently switched over to Raycast which is a very powerful alternative!

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