built with coffee ☕

This is an infrequently updated (last: January 7th, 2023) list of tools I use / apps I like. I currently exist in an entirely Apple/iOS/Mac world so it’s irrelevant to Windows / Linux users for now.

Apps I would recommend to anyone:

• Bear for note taking.
• Things 3 for todo lists.
• Procreate for drawing.
• 1Password for saving passwords and sharing documents with the family in a secure place.
• iA Writer for long form writing.
• News Explorer for reading RSS feeds.
• Tweetbot to make Twitter not the worst thing on Earth.

Apps I use as a developer:

• iTerm 2 as a replacement for the default Terminal.
• Visual Studio Code with:
  • the Moonlight II italic theme
  • GitLens
  • Project Manager
  • Prettier
  • Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
• Homebrew to install things on MacOS without borking the entire system.
• Alfred for a bunch of weird little tasks, mostly text snippets but also launching apps in a particular state or running small scripts / automations. With MacOS 12 getting the iOS shortcuts, however, I’ve migrated some of these tasks there.
• Rectangle for managing windows.

Stacks

I’m currently working on projects built with:

• Create React app put into a larger page layout using single-spa.
• Next JS deployed to Netlify.
• Gatsby deployed to Netlify with Storyblok and Simplecast integrations.

Previously worked on:

• Two Vue SPAs on top of a .NET backend with a Contentful integration.

Changes, updates, revisions

January 1, 2022

• Replaced Magnet with Rectangle. Added Tweetbot. Added the stack I’m currently working with.

December 2nd, 2020

First entry.