![]() ![]() Not vi on Linux (which is almost always a painfully minimal vim). Job control, input and output redirection, pipes, scripting (when I can't justify to coworkers / manglement that it'd be better to do it in another language), everything. I was going to say the shell's | operator (so, so grateful Doug McIlroy exerted management prerogative to get that in!), but it's really the shell as a whole. I'm listing these based on how important they are to what I do every day. This is going to be a pretty boring list with items that mostly explain themselves. IMHO, those guys already have big enough slices of the pie. If Spotify goes away, it would very likely be because they were dethroned or bought out by Google, Apple, or Amazon. If anything, I want to see Spotify get as much support as possible. The "all your eggs in Spotify" is a valid concern, but I'm not worried about becoming unable to listen to music because of it. ![]() I was busy with a big learning curve at a new dev position and family stuff going on, and I completely stopped putting energy into it.Įventually I started listening at the computer to some of the services that came and went for a while, and then one day Spotify all of a sudden got popular and good, and that's that. It's weird to think about now, but for a couple years I mostly stopped listening to music. I did it once, it took me like half a day when it stopped working I just bailed on the whole thing completely. They each had their own weak points, so I kept the music collection but just put less energy into it.Īt some point, the only piece of Windows software I could find that was capable of interfacing with my iPod Classic was Foobar2000, and an update or something made it so that a user had to do some convoluted thing like download iTunes, extract some files out of it, and chant in a foreign tongue under the first full moon of November, and maybe it would work. I experimented with Rhapsody, 8tracks, a couple others. It was nice to be able to have so much music and so much control, and countless hours could be spent customizing things and tweaking and making everything just so.Īs I started doing more office work, and getting software gigs, I found my passion for building playlists, hunting down more music, and doing backups to get less and less as my other mandatory keyboard time increased. I forget the names of both, but one was for renaming and handling meta information in bulk, and one was a volumizer. I also had a couple other programs, Windows things from when I had Windows on my machines. Around 2010-2012 there were a lot of random WMs coming out, but i3 seems to be the most popular for good reason.įor close to fifteen years I used first Winamp, then later Foobar2000 to manage playlists and put them on various portable devices. If I'm doing a live-coding session with tidalcycles, I'll use i3 because I can cut my distractions down and put my windows precisely where I want them with minimal effort. It's the current hype for the *nix ricing crowd, the kids who want to look like l33t hax0rs and such, but it's also just damn fine software. ![]() The i3 window manager: Back when I started learning Linux, I fell in love with wmii after about a year using DWM. Renoise is also important because if its modular interface, even if it isn't as obvious as Buzz or Radium's pseudo cable-routing systems. Seven years later, and it's my favorite DAW. After a year on OpenMPT and another on Buzz (RIP) and Aldrin (also RIP), I decided to shell out for Renoise. Renoise: For making music, the tracker interface always made more sense to me with its straightforward representation of all data values, and you can program your sequences with just a computer keyboard. Honorable mention to TidalCycles and FoxDot, two of the best environments for interacting with SC, but SC's JITlib is pretty powerful anyway, and what they're built around. SuperCollider: You can code synthesizers and make music, in a way that is in some ways a bit more intuitive than a DAW. As a predominantly Windows user, I hate Notepad, but use it because I'm rarely doing text editing. Vim: Once you learn the basics, it's almost impossible to use anything else. Firefox: It's a damn fine browser run by a damn fine team, and works well for like 98% of my browsing needs, and the other 2% are weird, inconsistent failures. ![]()
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