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“Coda (a document collaboration platform) is often mentioned as what devs would like to replace Confluence (Atlassian’s team collaboration and knowledge management platform) with.”
“Linear is mentioned positively mostly in comparison to JIRA (see below), for being a snappier experience, and more pleasant to use than Atlassian’s flagship product.”
“Slack is often mentioned as the tool devs currently using Microsoft Teams say they wish they could use, instead.”
“JetBrains AI: AI assistants built into JetBrains IDEs. Interestingly, across all responses, most developers using JetBrains IDEs seem to use other AI tools that integrate into JetBrains IDEs – most notably, GitHub Copilot.”
“Coda (a document collaboration platform) is often mentioned as what devs would like to replace Confluence (Atlassian’s team collaboration and knowledge management platform) with.”
“The presence of so many IDes and text editors on this list, such as VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Neovim, Vim, Zed, and Emacs, indicates that engineers spend a good part of their days inside the editor.”
“Most-loved tools The presence of so many IDes and text editors on this list, such as VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Neovim, Vim, Zed, and Emacs... Cursor being the third-most loved product is a standout achievement, especially because the product is barely two years old.”
“Adding ads was what made me remove Disqus comments from my blog. Up to 2019, I had a Disqus widget that allowed people to add comments to the blog. I used the free version, which version would inject ads into the comments box. Carbon Ads would not approve my application while there were other ads...”
“Choosing an advertising provider I wanted to have a less intrusive advertising provider and avoid irrelevant spam-like ads that Google Ads and other advertising providers. I also wanted to avoid the dark pattern of ads re-appearing as you scroll, which are trademarks of many online magazines. Car...”
“Terminals mentioned: Neovim: an extensible, Vim-based editor”
“Terminals mentioned: Vim: an editor part of most Unix / Linux systems”
“Gergely uses a tool called Pallet to put together a job board.”
“In what is confusing, after I applied to join Carbon Ads, I got a contact form from a company called BuySellAds. Apparently, Carbon Ads was bought by BuySellAds in 2013, but the brands are treated differently. I would only interact with BuySellAds from there on. BuySellAds verified my ad placemen...”
“Slack is often mentioned as the tool devs currently using Microsoft Teams say they wish they could use, instead.”
“Most-disliked tools JIRA is by far the most-disliked tool among respondents, with more negative mentions than the next four tools combined! For example, many mentions of Linear were in the context of devs wishing they could use this more lightweight tool instead of JIRA.”
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