Does anyone here use bare Attiny85s to drive their LEDs?

Does anyone here use bare Attiny85s to drive their LEDs? If so what programmer do you use to program your Attinys and what Arduino version are you using? Ive been having issues programming my Attinys using Arduino 1.8.7

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=571976.0

go back to 1.8.5?