Uses

All sorts of things that I use on my computer (and occasionally phone), services I use for my daily life and web development, etc.

Feel free to make any recommendations to me through social media!

Apps #

General #

• Brave Browser for everyday tasks
• Librewolf for browsing and web development
• 1Password for password management
• Things for lists and todos
• Notion for personal documents and databases
• Spotify for music
• Microsoft Office for documents, presentations, etc.

Social #

• Mimestream for Gmail
• Discord for community involvement
• OBS for the occasional stream
• NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds

Development #

• iTerm2 for terminal
• VS Code for general development
• IntelliJ IDEA for Java development
• Figma for designs, mockups, and logos
• Docker for containers

Utilities #

• Raycast for a powerful, developer-oriented Spotlight alternative
• KnockKnock for macOS system scans
• IINA for video & audio player
• CleanShot X for screenshotting
• Stats for menubar stats
• Amphetamine for preventing system sleep
• Velja for multi-browser link opening
• Pure Paste for clipboard sanitization
• Upscayl for occasionally upscaling images
• GPG Suite for macOS-integrated GPG tooling

Browser Extensions #

• uBlock Origin for ad and tracker blocking
• 1Password browser extension
• Stylus for custom CSS styling & theming
• Refined GitHub for better GitHub UX

Developer tooling #

Package management #

• Homebrew for system package management
• fnm for Node.js version management
• miniconda and virtualenvwrapper for Python environment management

Terminal #

• Oh My Zsh for managing zsh plugins and such
• Starship for shell prompt
• tealdeer for command line tl;drs
• zoxide for smart directory jumping
• Helix for a modal text editor (replacing vim)
• fzf for fuzzy finding
• hyperfine for occasional benchmarking
• exa for an ls replacement
• bat for a cat replacement
• dog for a command line DNS client
• fd for a find replacement
• xh for a user-friendly HTTP client

Web Development #

• Next.js and React for larger production-grade sites and apps
• Nuxt and Vue for smaller multi-page apps
• Vue and Vite for small SPAs
• Eleventy for content-oriented static sites
• Tailwind CSS for utility-based CSS styling

Services #

General #

• 1Password for password management
• Tutanota for privacy-friendly custom domain email
• Notion for personal documents and databases
• Spotify for music

Web Development #

• GitHub for project source code hosting
• Vercel for web app hosting
• Cloudflare for DNS, static sites, serverless functions, etc.
• Netlify for some static site hosting
• Plausible for privacy-respecting analytics
• Fly for occasional small free server hosting
• Railway for a similar purpose
• Deno Deploy for some serverless functions built with Deno
• Porkbun for domain purchases and management
• MongoDB Atlas for NoSQL databases
• PlanetScale for MySQL databases
• Upstash for one free Redis database

Last updated on 2023-01-06