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 (❦) list marker are my favorites <3
computers & programming
text editors
sublime
text⬩ sublime text ❤️❤️ 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