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I've asked this previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22849208

But a few years have past and want to see what's emerged since. Although can be new to you vs. released in 2021 or 2022 necessarily.

Things I've come across in the meantime:

* mock AWS services https://github.com/spulec/moto

* query cloud services https://github.com/turbot/steampipe

* munge CSV https://github.com/johnkerl/miller https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

* page json https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless

* text to tree structure [I use this as a hack to version control my music library] https://github.com/birchb1024/frangipanni

I learned about a ton of useful CLIs, desktop apps, and SaaS products from this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13887237).

But it was posted 3 years ago, and perhaps some useful stuff has emerged in the interim, hence my starting this thread.

I've seen many good resources for SQL but nothing great strictly for ER modeling.

tldr: do/can you read at work?

Dan Luu has a great article, 'How I Learned to Program', in which he writes:

"I asked if I could expense books and read them at work. This seemed perfectly normal because a lot of other people did the same thing, and there were at least two people who averaged more than one technical book per week, including one person who averaged a technical book every 2 or 3 days"

this sounds 1) awesome! 2) fantastical; I cannot imagine pitching this to management and cannot management being ok with it. but maybe it's more common than I imagine, or more common in certain sectors (Luu was working at a chip design company).

Sublime Text is great, so I suspect many users would happily pay (or donate, if given the choice) $5-20 for the privilege of such a tool. Sublime's asking price is $80, however, and as a result no one seems to pay (even large corporates).

I'm curious 1) why Sublime doesn't allow smaller payments from devs who want to support the project and 2) what entities are actually paying for licenses (government, companies with strict procurement rules, &c.)

According to Hyde's 'Understanding the Machine', there would be three subsequent volumes, but so far only looks that 'Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level' has been released. Any word if further publication in the works?