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If only they could "slip on some tea"...
There are currently 94 issues labeled as UI in the hacktoberfest effort on Github: https://github.com/search?q=label%3Ahacktoberfest+label%3Aui...
I don't claim to be especially "savvy"-- but with more than a third of the market value held "passively" (meaning investors in indexed funds), a lot of people have traded voting with their feet for a sense of security. Thus, there isn't actually a lot of pressure in the stock market reservoir to bubble back up to the Beltway. After reading yesterday's HN topic: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-valuations-havent-... and the accompanying paper from Grantham, Mayo & van Oterloo: https://www.gmo.com/docs/default-source/research-and-comment...

...my pithy summary would be "Winter is coming."

Re:Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @04:33PM (#11997322)
As a MS stack dev:

Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)

VsVim for Visual Studio (https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3...)

Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/)

Wox (http://www.getwox.com/)

and of course PowerShell