Amazon Alexa!
It all started 21 years ago. HTML & JavaScript first. Then, ASP Programming, Search Engines, PHP/WordPress, HTML5/CSS3, Windows Laptops, A Mac Book pro, J2ME MIDP, Touch Screens, Macromedia Fireworks/Dreamweaver to name a few.
I agree with Paul Wolke. I used Notepad++ for over a decade. Then I went to Atom (since it was the free, open source, version of Sublime), and because of Hashnode... I learned that everyone and their grandmother was using Visual Studio Code. After about a month of using nothing but VS Code, at this point in the game, it beats the liver out of Atom, imo.
However, if I were to give credit to three things, they would be...
Blockchain technology has absolutely changed my life.
When I first understood its potential I realized that this technology would change the world and be the next internet. I am glad that I understood its potential not too late and still have the time to explore, learn every piece of this technology and become a blockchain expert in the near future.
Mobile apps.
I'm part of the "old timer's" crowd and I'll add a few things that I feel have changed for the better:
For me ..
Some of 'em:
Insert this in your url address tab and voila! You can type things quickly
data:text/html, <html contenteditable>
I tried using localstorage to retrieve already stored things / store while one inputs into the contenteditable html, but alas! data urls aren't given access to localstorage.
I guess everyone is going to go for positives, so I'm going to talk about a negative:
My smartphone has shrunk my attention span and overall limited a lot of my mental abilities. It's a change that I only became aware of recently and am now looking to reverse (without becoming an outcast).
Tools
Technologies
Detail description of why on tools : hashnode.com/post/tools-or-for-developers-and-man…
Ludovic Lagouardette
C++, Elixir, NodeJS, C#, Lisp... And lots of others
Addition of Threading in the C++ standard in 2011. Really, C++11 was a game changer in my way to code and made me eager for more features in my favorite language