Re:Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?
by reubenmorais on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:29AM
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> I consider this a quite unique trait of our profession.
(In case you really meant unique rather than special or valued). Machinists, woodworkers, and craftsmen in general all make their own tools when the situation calls for it.
You use the word "unique" in the strict database sense. That is also a unique trait of our profession.
(and yes the above sentence was meant to be a logical moron)
Making our own tools in software used to be more common.
Although the difference between tool-making and yak shaving is itself a yak shaveable debate.
Yep a private repo in GitHub goes a loooong way. With git you can be offline, dump whatever comes at any time. Markup syntax is remarkable in its simplicity but how much you can get out of it.
GitHub UI for on the move web committing is also pretty well done.
For a lot of things in life, you want to have simple interface yet sophisticated functionality. It’s incredibly hard to achieve that balance and so many software products screw up that balance.
I strongly agree with this. Actually I'm surprised that creating one's own tools is not more widespread in our industry as I consider this a quite unique trait of our profession.