A good kind of an update: The responses

Thank you to everyone who answered the call for good software updates from last week. I received so many nominations that the list below is severely narrowed down, but I appreciated every response! I grouped the answers in sections I saw emerge organically, I included links to apps, and did some light editing for clarity. (You can always explore more answers on Mastodon and Bluesky.) I hope you find this inspiring in some way – I know I did! – or at least enjoyable. Something I asked for People shared examples of improvements they particularly asked for, improvements that meant something for people close to them, or even simply seeing people given credit for ideas: I’m a space educator and bring a mobile planetarium in schools. I use a piece of open source software called Gaia Sky. It is developed by only one developer, and I seem to be one of only a handful of people in the issue queue requesting updates. Always a prompt and incredible reply from the developer. I filed a request: “In…