/uses

Applications

• VS Code

  • Karma theme by yours truly!

  • Previously: Brackets, Sublime Text and Atom

• Spotify

• Pocket Casts

• Arc

  • Chrome for everything work related

  • Safari to make sure whatever I build works across browsers, and when I need to conserve my battery usage (Safari is incredibly battery-efficient)

  • Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work

  • Microsoft Edge for development since it's better at RAM usage than FDE

• Notion for task management, long-term planning and notes

• Obsidian for quick notes, mind-mapping and managing my newsletter

• Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩

• iTerm2 with Oh my Zsh and Starship

• Iosevka font

• Brew the package manager for macOS

Helper apps

• Amphetamine super useful when you want to prevent your system from falling asleep

• Raycast a better alternative for a growing list of apps:

  • Rocket emojis, everywhere!

  • Alfred a much better Spotlight

  • Maccy for lack of better words, a copy-paste manager? allows you to search through your historical copy-s, super helpful

  • Rectangle a window manager; I love that I can arrange my windows exactly how I want using just keyboard shortcuts

• 1Password password manager which really checks off all the right boxes

• Karabiner-Elements Keyboard customizer with Caps Lock enhancement

VS Code Extensions

I believe that the tools and tooling that you use does play a role in making you a more efficient programmer, and a couple of mostly quality-of-life extensions that I use with VS Code are:

• Error Lens highlight the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated and print the message inline.

• GitLens Find out who to blame quicker—spoiler, it's you.

• Todo Tree search your workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and display them in a tree view. 🌳

• Karma Duh.

Equipment

• M1 MacBook Pro 13" 2020

• MacBook Pro 13" 2019

• Phone 13 Pro

• Apple Watch Series 7

• Dell UltraSharp 27" 4K USB-C Monitor

• Rectangles.store gradient wave deskmat

• Logitech MX Master 3

• RØDE NT-USB Mini

• Logitech C925e Webcam

• Oculus Quest 2

Keyboards

• Ginkgo65 with KTT HaluHalo switches and GMK Striker 2 keycaps

• Discipline65 with L+F T1 switches and MT3 /dev/tty keycaps

Sound

• Marshall Acton II

• AirPods Max

• Sony WH-1000XM4

• AirPods Pro (2nd generation)