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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I use multiple browsers for different things:

    Vivaldi - for work or personal projects because the workspaces and tab stacking allows me to keep an “L1 cache” of all the sites relevant to parts of projects I’m working on. Then when I’m done with that work the useful ones get bookmarked for future use.

    Firefox - personal browsing i.e. watching stuff, shopping, etc. because I wanted off chrome so I could continue to use adblockers.

    Brave - research purposes.

    Opera - for the occasional use of a VPN for getting around geoblocking.


  • Counter point: KiCAD

    Yes I know it’s schematic capture and PCB layout, but I’m giving it as an example for two reasons:

    1. The UX is genuinely really good and easy to use even for a novice following YouTube tutorials because it follows the norms of a schematic/PCB software package you’d expect to pay for (OrCAD, Altium, etc.)

    2. It’s open source and used in industry so GIMP and Inkscape have ZERO excuses for their horrific UX which is the prime reason industry professionals don’t want to spend an age re-learning all of their workflows.

    There I said it, I’ll get down off this soapbox now.