I am in the same boat, except all of the software I’ve ever written has been TeX
I'm sorry
giving contrived examples to undergrads to demonstrate why
dp[i][j]
is a shit table name or why∞
is better thanfloat('inf')
orMAX_INT
in pseudocode
that sound you can hear is my despairing screaming[0]
VPN client where ... jump through the hoops of learning a new shitty client
(not a pitch, but multiple commercial references) I really liked how simple tunnelbear made this for a lot, and also quite like how slick the wireguard desktop-style handling is (you can see this for example with fly.io's integration to that). I think there's long context here, and if you buy me a beer I could rant in detail
PS: There is Goldwarden
oh good, it's in Go, my other code allergy
shitposting aside, re the password manager thing: @self and I have co-ranted in dms, and about similar gripes.
so, by way of idea, loose laundry list for foundations/design: modern crypto (jfc why is so much still going "yeah gpg is fine"), crdt sync, a sane fucking language to build everything on, own-devices friendly (in the "you can sync device to device peer-wise" sense, vs the "there's a remote server broker" sense), and pretty okay(tm) interfaces for client building/extensibility
GPUs: not even once