Ask HN: What are some excellent pieces of software written by a single person?

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TempleOS

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 26 social mentions

2

Kitty terminal

TIL that my favorite terminal[1] was written by the author of Calibre. [1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/.

#SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions

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Doom Emacs

Doom Emacs maintained by Henrik Lissner is the best starting point for getting started with emacs that exists today. The documentation is exhaustive. https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs.

#Text Editors #IDE #Knowledge Management 154 social mentions

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Dato

I've been amazed almost every single day since I installed it few months ago by how useful and well done Dato on macOS is. https://sindresorhus.com/dato It fixes one of my main issue with macOS, its inability to show a calendar by clicking on the day in status bar, and adds tons of great feature without feeling bloaty. Great great job. Thank you Sindre Sorhus for making my life easier !

#Calendar #Email Clients #Productivity 21 social mentions

Https://flatassembler.net Unfortunately it won't run on recent Macs since it's written in 32-bit assembly, so some modifications are needed.

#IDE #Text Editors #Cloud Computing 13 social mentions

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cURL

Surprised nobody mentioned https://curl.se and it's author: https://daniel.haxx.se.

#API Tools #APIs #Developer Tools 105 social mentions

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Reaper

#Audio & Music #Audio #Audio Recording 79 social mentions