I'm a (mostly) backend programmer, the majority of my work I do in PHP and Java, typically with a Postgres database.

I really like Javascript as a language, but I'm sceptical about the modern JS frameworks, I sometimes wonder if I'm just getting too old for that kind of thing? ;)

I'm being very very unfair to Python by using it most of the time for admin scripts and cronjobs instead of "real" software.

Things that have made my professional life a happier one over the years include PHP 7, and Joda Time, and Guava. Also, git and JIRA, and JSON, and new Postgres versions, and UTF-8. And coffee.