🖥 Hardware
- iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021) 16 GB RAM
- iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
- Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
- Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones
- Yeti Stereo Microphone
👨🏽🎨 Create and Design
- Affinity Designer - For vector-based illustration and design.
- Affinity Publisher - For desktop publishing.
- Affinity Photo - For photo editing and manipulation.
- Obsidian - Markdown-based writing and note-taking tool.
- Figma - UX design and prototyping.
🧑🏽💻 Other Development Tools
- ColorSlurp - I’ve tried a bunch of color picker tools. For some reason, this one has stuck.
- DataGrip - Cross-platform database IDE by JetBrains.
- Ghostty - Fast, extensible, cross-platform terminal emulator.
- ImageOptim - Batch image compression. Makes optimizing image files super fast and easy.
- Visual Studio Code - Code editor for just about anything (Go, React, Rust, Typescript, etc…)
🖥 Typography
- Blambot - All the comic fonts you will ever need. But for reals, this time.
- Floodfonts - By Felix Braden.
- Harbor Type - A small but amazing collection.
- Mark Simonson - Proxima Nova and other fonts that aren’t Proxima Nova.
🖌 Everything Else
- 1Password - Everyone should be using a password manager.
- AltTab - It’s CMD-Tab, but BETTER! SO MUCH BETTER!
- Drafts - Writing notebook. Where ideas go to germinate. It integrates really well with Shortcuts on MacOS.
- Homebrew - The missing MacOS package manager.
- iStat Menus - Menu-bar based performance statistics.
- Keka - File archiving and unarchiving.
- Little Snitch - Ever wonder what your apps are connecting to while you’re not looking? Little Snitch will tell you.
- MacUpdater - It, well…it keeps your apps up to date.
- Mela - I resisted a dedicated recipe manager for ages. Mela showed me how mistaken I was.
- PDF Expert - The absolute best PDF reader/annotator/editor for MacOS.
- Paste - If you copy and you paste, you want a clipboard manager. Paste is currently my favorite.
- Raycast - Scriptable, extensible app launcher geared to developers.
- Rocket - Do you wish there were a system-wide Slack-like way to use emoji? The correct answer is yes. Yes, you do. The answer is Rocket.
- Unclack - It mutes your microphone when you type (but only when you type), so you’re not that annoying person making clacky noises in Zoom calls.
🕸️ This Site
- Astro - Static site generation.
Inspired by https://uses.tech/.