Here’s an updated list of tools I’m using right now.

Dev Computer setup

• MacOS configuration
  • Trackpad
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    • Turn on 3 finger drag: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204609
  • Keyboard
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  • Configure Screenshot location link
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• Chrome (main browser), Fi****refox (secondary browser)
• Homebrew
• Git, preferably install via Homebrew
• Terminal
  • https://iterm2.com/
  • Warp
  • 12oh-my-zsh
    • configure powerlevel10k
  • Volta
• Fonts
  • JetBrains Mono
  • FiraCode
  • Dank Mono
  • DejaVu Sans Mono
• IDEs - Code editors, coding tools
  • VSCode Insiders
  • GitHub CLI
  • LunarVim
    • https://nvchad.github.io/quickstart/install#pre-requisites -Learning Neovim
• Productivity
  • Centered
  • Alfred
  • ScriptKit
  • Karabiner Elements
  • RescueTime
• Communication
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • Zoom
• Screencasting
  • SwitchResX (for adjusting the screen resolution when recording full-screen)
  • ScreenFlow
• Utilities
  • Speedtest CLI
  • Timeular
  • NordVPN
  • Cron
  • LittleSnitch Firewall
  • 1Password7
  • [Amphetamine](https://apps.apple.com/it/app/amphetamine/id937984704?l=en&mt=12
  • Hand Mirror
  • Rectangle
  • Scroll Reverser
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  • Disk Inventory: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-inventory-x -Code screenshots

Note Taking

• Obsidian

Productivity and General Utility tools

MacOS

• Karabiner Elements

Programming

Code Editing

• VSCode Insiders - I’m using the insider build already for a while and it works perfectly for me
• VSCodeVim extension - forVIM support within VSCode

Time tracking

Time tracking is useful for different reasons

• personal analysis on where you spent time and possibilities for optimization
• invoicing clients 🙂

Currently I’m using Timeular, using their physical tracker. It also syncs nicely with Harvest.

Previously I’ve been using Toggl which I was highly satisfied with as well.

Music

• Spotify
• https://lofi.cafe/
• https://www.pretzel.rocks/ => for streaming

Photo Editing

I’m no designer and terrible at this. But here are the poor man’s tools to get things done in terms of blog posts images, banners and stuff

• Google Slides (yeah, you won’t believe it) to create the shapes etc
• Pixlr to do some final touches (e.g. background transparency etc)
• https://vectorizer.ai/

(yeah, feel free to suggest better tools 😅)

Budgeting andFinances

I’ve discovered a nice little tool called ActualBudget that allows to easily doEnvelope Budgeting.

Interesting tools to look into

• Converting / manipulating files
  • https://tinywow.com/ - PDF Editing, merging & splitting; PDF -> JPG, JPG -> PDF
  • https://convertio.co/ - converting files
• https://temp-mail.org/en/ - temporary, disposable Email service
• Free Images
  • https://www.pexels.com/ - cool background images useful for blog post thumbnails, Youtube etc
  • https://www.remove.bg/ - Image background removal