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Software discoveries

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Here are a few pieces of software Iā€™ve started using and really wanted to share.

Exercism

I rediscovered a very nice piece of software that I decided to donate to, since Iā€™ve been using it heavily for the past few weeks. That software, or website, is called Exercism. Itā€™s a platform that lets you learn many programming languages with exercises. The exercises are not as ho-hum as just doing LeetCode problems, and the platform has a very nice gamified feel to it all. What I like most about it is that most problems take a good 15-30 minutes depending on difficulty, and thatā€™s just perfect for days that I canā€™t dedicate several hours to programming, but still want to get my fingers moving a bit.

Qutebrowser

A major Arc browser vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher, and it has been the talk of the town. More worryingly for me though was that I am an Arc browser user. Reading this didnā€™t sit well with me, and I thought that yeah, maybe I donā€™t need to use this, that its features arenā€™t really all that great.

So I am giving my favorite browser another shot: Qutebrowser. That might sound weird, but Qutebrowser has a lot of issues that were hard for me to overcome, but about a week in, I am feeling hopeful.

New Reeder

My favorite RSS app came out with its new version, and I am loving it. While I find it unfortunate that its a subscription based product, the pricing is really lovely and I donā€™t mind paying for it at that price range. In truth, I found the older Reeder version a bit difficult to grasp. The UI was nice but a lot of the actions were not intuitive to me. This new one feels like its going in the right direction.