software i use
now everything i link to here (and nearly everything i use) is, generally
speaking, free, and sometimes also open-source, not for any sort of grand
ideological reason but because i'm a cheap bastard and extremely paranoid
about downloading viruses from sketchy sites .
for reference i have a windows 10 laptop so some of the items here might
not be compatible with or work differently on your machine etc etc
items with a heart (❤️) are my favorites <3
computers & programming
text editors
sublime
text sublime text my beloved!!! a lightweight text editor that i use for
coding as well as making this website
notepad++ i mostly use this for miscellaneous notes and making quick edits to
files
recommended themes / plugins
i just can't stop making lists
general:
sublime text (via package
control ):
comment marks ⬩ since the native bookmarking function
sucks ass
cattleya ⬩ ourple color scheme
DAneo theme ⬩ which is for some reason different from
a color scheme
colorsublime
⬩ a collection of textmate themes, compatible with ST
notepad++
(plugins
list ):
menu search ⬩ functionally similar to the command
palette in ST or VS code
take notes ⬩ take notes
command line tools
conemu terminal emulator (i still don't really know what this means)
scoop package manager for windows, what i use to install some of these
programs
pandoc convert between a ton of different document formats
imagemagick quickly edit images from the command line
oxipng lossless png compression optimizer (please use this on your websites so
people don't have to download 6.8MB images every time they visit)
writing
libreoffice FOSS alternative to
microsoft office suiteobsidian writing / note-taking in markdown
focuswriter distraction-free word processor
art / graphics
krita digital art software
libresprite FOSS alternative to aseprite, for pixel art and animations
inkscape for working with vector graphics (which i do not do often)