For sites created by an agency, making a web page is still a combination of designer and programmer tasks. Some people do both task types but it's usually a division of labor.
Generally, each page type (template) is drawn at a desktop and mobile resolution to dial in the responsive experience and visual elements on the page. Designers have personal app preferences but it's always something from the Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Fireworks. Some people tinker with wireframing or prototype apps but I've found them distracting.
We sketch wireframes on a paper and go right to coding for something small or internal. When client approval is needed there is always a polished design presented in PDF or PNG with notes explaining the intended functionality.
I like editing in Coda (paid) and Brackets (free). Classic WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver are being replaced with interactive apps like Adobe Muse or hybrid custom-hosted templates like Squarespace.
There are so many good CSS frameworks available that you can learn one and make an excellent page in a day. We use Bootstrap for the full blown responsive CSS/HTML/JS framework and Susy for a CSS-only Sass system.
Grunt, Bower and Yeoman are the command line tools we use. Grunt helps you automate tasks like minifying your code to save file size or update your browser live while writing HTML, CSS and JS. Brackets has Grunt built in so local page refreshing already works. Bower lets you install lots of well tested CSS and JS (with version dependencies). Yeoman lets you create the shell of that "pro" web page or app from the command line, leveraging Grunt and Bower.
Franklin was the equivalent of an open source purist. He was determined to uncover truth, better himself, and inform the world.
"I had form'd most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which was called the Junto;… every member, in his turn, should produce ... queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company;”
Hacker News might benefit from Junto policy, making members pay money for encouraging and destructive comments that are not in the spirit of inquiry.
"Our debates were ... conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties."
Discussion in his Junto meetings led to volunteer fire departments, America’s first circulating library, and a school that became the Univ. of Pennsylvania. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junto_(club)
If these reports are accurate then we have a staggering average above 4,000 violent daily deaths. (http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/7/2/104.full) (http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/67403/1/a77019.pdf)