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Amit Merchant

Indian developer and prolific blogger on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript; open-source enthusiast writing daily at amitmerchant.com.

8 things

Casio F-91WHardware Casio

loved

Apart from this, I own three watches of which one is a classic Casio F-91W, a Casio Royale, and a Casio G-5600UE-1. I love all of them equally.

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2019-07-17·amitmerchant.com ↗

Dracula themeSoftware Zeno Rocha

loved

Both my editor and IDE is rocking Dracula theme. It’s a great dark theme and gives me a consistent environment across my devices and setups.

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2019-07-17·amitmerchant.com ↗

HTTPieSoftware HTTPie

loved

I use HTTPie to perform API calls. It’s a great tool and I love it!

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2019-07-17·amitmerchant.com ↗

Visual Studio CodeSoftware Microsoft

liked

I use VS Code as my primary editor mainly because it’s more modern, highly configurable, and lightweight in comparison to other Electron-based editors such as Atom.

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JetBrains MonoOther JetBrains

liked

I’m using JetBrains Mono fonts across all my text editors and IDEs. These looks great overall and supports ligatures which is nice!

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UlauncherSoftware Ulauncher

uses

I use Ulauncher as the application launcher of my preferred choice on Linux.

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KDE ConnectSoftware KDE

uses

I use KDE Connect to sync my files and clipboard across my Android phone and Ubuntu desktop.

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TinyPNGService TinyPNG

uses

When I need to compress images, I use TinyPNG. It uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.

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2019-07-17·amitmerchant.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

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