Uses
🖥 Hardware
- iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021) 16 GB RAM
- iPad Pro (11-inch, M1, 3rd generation)
- Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
- Apple AirPods
- 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.
- Craft - Simply the finest long-form writing tool around.
- Dungeondraft - For making D&D dungeon maps.
- 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.
- Dash - Documentation browser.
- DataGrip - Cross-platform database IDE by JetBrains.
- ImageOptim - Batch image compression. Makes optimizing image files super fast and easy.
- Oh My ZSH - A framework for Zsh. Makes the terminal awesome.
- Termius - Cross-platform SSH terminal.
- Transmit - For moving files from here to there (FTP, SFTP, S3).
- Visual Studio Code - Code editor for just about anything (Go, React, Rust, Typescript, etc…)
- Warp - A modern, Rust-based terminal. It’s fast and does things that terminals should have done a decade ago. IT’S GREAT, even in beta.
🖥 Typography
- Adobe Fonts - All the fonts you’ll ever need. Except for all the others. Because you can never have enough fonts.
- 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.
- AirBuddy - Better bluetooth management than the built-in functionality of MacOS. Especially awesome with AirPods.
- AltTab - It’s CMD-Tab, but BETTER! SO MUCH BETTER!
- Bartender - For managing your menubar icons.
- CleanShotX - The best screenshot tool for MacOS.
- Drafts - Writing notebook. Where ideas go to germinate. It integrates really well with Shortcuts on MacOS.
- Edge - I know. I know! But it’s a pretty great Chromium browser without the crypto-for-ad-viewing nonsense of Brave.
- Homebrew - The missing MacOS package manager.
- Hyperkey - Turn your caps lock key into an extra modifier key for keyboard shortcuts. It does one thing, but it does it really well.
- 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.
- Mate Translate - Menubar-resident translation tool.
- Mela - I resisted a dedicated recipe manager for ages. Mela showed me how mistaken I was.
- Ooooo - Binaural beats. If you know, you know.
- PDF Expert - The absolute best PDF reader/annotator/editor for MacOS.
- Pastebot - If you copy and you paste, you want a clipboard manager. Pastebot is my favorite.
- Raycast - Scriptable, extensible app launcher geared to developers.
- Reeder - RSS reader.
- 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.
- Spark - Email done well.
- Strongsync - A brand-new way of mounting cloud storage in MacOS. I’m super happy with it so far.
- 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.
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