My personal favorite is Telegram, I use it extensively, the one feature I cannot live without is the Bot.

I think you should add another option stating something in the line of "Dont have an opinion yet". Since this is a pretty recent phenomena not many people including me would not have had the required information to make their mind up.

I would like to think of it this way. Most full time jobs require us to use one specific language like Java or JavaScript or Python and what not. But there comes a point in every developer's life when they need to build custom tools to assist with their development, this is when there's a need for what I call utility languages, I use Python and Go for all my utility scripts.

I have been using hashflare since August of 2017, they are legit. But sometimes they can be annoying, recently they hiked up the minimum withdrawal to 0.05 Bitcoin, which will take ages if you buy tiny amounts of hash rate.

A Windows Laptop with 28 inch AOC monitor.

I tend write down lot of notes about the project before I actually start to program it. But not so much while I am developing, I would always go back and refer to my notes. Since most decisions I make in my notes rarely change, there's very little writing afterwards.