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)
• Homebrew
• Git, preferably install via Homebrew
• Terminal
  • https://iterm2.com/
  • Warp (became my default)
  • 12oh-my-zsh
    • configure powerlevel10k
  • Volta for managing Node versions
• Fonts
  • JetBrains Mono
  • FiraCode
  • Dank Mono
  • DejaVu Sans Mono
• IDEs - Code editors, coding tools
  • Cursor AI
  • VSCode Insiders
  • GitHub CLI
  • LunarVim
    • https://nvchad.github.io/quickstart/install#pre-requisites -Learning Neovim
• Productivity
  • Raycast (🔥)
  • ScriptKit
  • Karabiner Elements
  • RescueTime
• Communication
  • Slack
  • Discord
  • Zoom
• Screencasting
  • SwitchResX (for adjusting the screen resolution when recording full-screen)
  • ScreenFlow
• Utilities
  • Speedtest CLI
  • NordVPN
  • Cron
  • LittleSnitch Firewall
  • 1Password7
  • [Amphetamine](https://apps.apple.com/it/app/amphetamine/id937984704?l=en&mt=12
  • Hand Mirror - replaced by Raycast’s camera feature
  • Rectangle
  • Scroll Reverser
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  • Disk Inventory: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14393/disk-inventory-x / DaisyDisk -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/

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

• Canva
• Affinity Photo
• Pixlr to do some final touches (e.g. background transparency etc)
• https://vectorizer.ai

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