zsolt_terek

The holiday season is coming and I'm tired of buying another unused toy or gadget for my kids. It would be great to see what worked for others, I'm particularly interested in seeing gift ideas that made a profound change to a kid, e.g. opening them up to a new hobby. Or just a toy or a visit together to some place that made joy. Non-digital is a plus.

Please include one or more keywords about the matching age group so that the list is easily searchable, like: TODDLER (for 1-2yo), PRESCHOOL1 (3-4), PRESCHOOL2 (~5-6), SCHOOL1 (~7-10), SCHOOL2 (~11-14), TEEN (15+).

I recently stumbled upon Krita on HN, which I really like. Would be great to collect the most powerful, feature-rich free software that are among the best in their category, and that get close to or even beat the commercial ones. I know some other great pieces like Gimp, Inkscape, but what's the state of the art for animations, music notations, audio mixing, etc? GUI & CLI should be both ok.

Here is a list of my favorite software that are worth learning:

  - Gimp: photo editing
  - Krita: digital painting, illustration
  - Inkscape: vector drawing
  - sox: sound processing (command line)
  - ffmpeg: video processing (command line)
  - imagemagick: image processing (command line)