My Software Stack is (Mostly) Old Too

After reading My software stack is old by Manu (Manuel Moreale), I became curious about the age of the software I use day in and day out as well. So, I spent a few minutes making a note of what tools I use daily, and found that I have an interesting mix of tools from basically two distinct time periods.

I’m writing this post presently in Obsidian (2020), which replaced Evernote (2000) a few years ago, and is the newest software I use daily. I’ll then be publishing to my website via Hugo (2013).

For work, I use Sublime Text (2008) and Sublime Merge (2018) on the software development side, and Altium (2005) for hardware development.

On the less technical side, I’m split between Apple Mail (2003) and Outlook (1997) for email (personal vs work), manage my tasks in Todoist (2007), communicate with coworkers via Slack (2013), and browse the web with Firefox (2004).

I think my summary after pondering that usage a little bit is that while I’m quite easily distracted by new tools, and enjoy investigating them, I rarely find a reason to move on from the older tools I already know and can rely on.