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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

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242 points simonebrunozzi | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 19:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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analogpixel ◴[11 Dec 25 22:00 UTC] No.46237814[source]▶
I've been noticing lately, at least for myself, that useful technology stopped happening like 10-20 years ago. If all you could use was tech from 2000 and before you would have a pretty stable stack that just worked (without a monthly subscription.)

There is also this article today: https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.h... about how great good ol' svg is. And then every recurring article about using RSS instead of all the other siloed products.

textfiles, makefiles, perl, php, rss, text based email, news groups, irc, icq, vim/emacs, sed, awk; all better than the crap they have spawned that is supposed to be "better".

Out of curiosity, what technology in the past 5 years do you use that you actually find better than something from 20 years ago?

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1. calmbonsai ◴[12 Dec 25 01:33 UTC] No.46239849[source]▶
- Uv for Python

- Nix

- Performant Virtualization

- Ghostty

- DuckDB and, in general, performant OLAP

Don't get me wrong as I do feel the core of your thesis is correct. Emacs is my editor and I just finished writing a nicely recursive set of gMake for cloud a pipeline. Most of my core software tools haven't changed appreciably since the mid 2000s--right around the time git came out.

edit: I had no idea Nix was so old. I guess it just feels very "new" in my zeitgeist.

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2. ioma8 ◴[12 Dec 25 08:58 UTC] No.46242208[source]▶
In which ways is ghostty superior to other common terminal emulators?