mhwaveedit

often thought, that, by now, Audacity somewhat suffers from "feature creep", including GUI-wise. mhwaveedit has managed to escape adding features. Quoting a passage grom TAOUP: "Several features of this UI are subtly excellent and worthy of emulation /.../. But these are details. The central virtue of this program is that it has a superbly transparent and natural user interface, one that erects as few barriers between the user and the sound file as possible." /3 I'd say Dillo managed to maintain the same core idea in terms of web browsing, have as few barriers between the user and the HTML file as possible. No added bloat, for 22 consecutive years. This is quite remarkable, actually -- as compared to GUI (and other) changes of many other browsers. Obviously, the scope of those "other browser projects" is different as well; it's a different world. Also, possibly the consistency of the GUI has to do with the use of FLTK, which kind of forces the devs to focus on the bare essentials. Let's hope that these indications of Dillo's death (because no homepage) are greatly exaggerated. Greetings and a thousand thanks thus far to all of Dillo's devs! 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtPaint 2. https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit 3. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch06s01.html#au...

zes pdf files for mobile readers. Started in around 2011; judging by the website, very probably a single-person thing. One more is, edbrowse, a "command line editor browser" with ed-like command language [6]. Originally written in 2002 by Karl Dahlke for blind users, but might be interesting to many others as well because of its scripting abilites. Ah, and also mhwaveedit [7], Magnus Hjorth's wave editor, developed by him since around 2002. And Mark Tyler's mtpaint [8], which was apparently very much inspired by mhwaveedit. A fascinating single-person made digital audio workstation is Non DAW by Jonathan Moore Liles [9], started in around 2006. I've used it a lot, great modular design, ran really well on an old Thinkpad T42. Serenity OS [10] has also been in development for 3 years. Andreas Kling's amazing effort. Possibly Dwarf Fortress [11] would also almost count as a two-man project, by Tarn and Zach Adams, going on since 2002. Nils M. Holm's creations also deserve a mention for sure. Scheme 9 From Empty Space, Klong array language, several books, etc [12]. Really inspiring guy. Not wishing to turn HN into Wikipedia, so I'll stop here. The dedication behind this kind of projects is amazing, really. 1: https://www.freedos.org/ 2: http://retroforth.org/ 3: https://picolisp.com/ 4: http://collapseos.org/ 5: https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ 6: http://edbrowse.org/ 7: https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MtPaint 9: http://non.tuxfamily.org/ 10: http://serenityos.org/ 11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress 12: http://t3x.org/s9fes/