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I regularly get messages asking about which tools I use to work.

Nobody has asked me what I use. Ever. But here's a list of my daily drivers and necessities anyways, mostly revolving around my Apple sheepy-ness. Inspired by many, many others. โค๏ธ

My mess of a desktop.

๐ŸŽ Hardware

MacBook Air (2020) Apple M1 (8โ€‘core CPU, 8โ€‘core GPU) ๐ŸŽ๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ 16 GB RAM 1 TB SSD MacBook Pro 15" (Mid-2018) Core i9 @ 2.9 GHZ, theoretically ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿงฏ๐Ÿš’ 32 GB RAM 1 TB SSD Radeon Pro 560X โ€“ 4 GB Most importantly, I haven't touched it since M1 stole my heart (for a third of the price). ๐Ÿ’” iPhone 13 Pro 512 GB in Graphite ๐Ÿ˜Ž Abyss Blue Silicone Case Saddle Brown Leather "Wallet" Belkin's MagSafe{" "} Car Vent Mount Pro {" "} is awesome too, btw. iPad Pro 10.5" 256 GB in Space Gray Smart Keyboard & Apple Pencil Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS) Aluminum โ€“ Space Gray 40mm (I have incredibly small wrists.) Usually with the{" "} Midnight Blue sport band , ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ{" "} Pride Edition woven nylon band , or employee ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ{" "} Close Your Rings Challenge woven nylon band . Google Pixel 4a For some recreational Android development and experimentation. Activated on Google Fi during rare trips. Really just putting this here in a futile effort to prove I'm not a complete Apple sheep. ๐Ÿ‘

๐Ÿ’พ Development

iTerm 2 My various{" "} ZSH aliases and{" "} functions are in{" "} my .dotfiles repository. Oh My ZSH zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting Visual Studio Code All of my settings. Themes: GitHub Dark theme Material Icon theme SF Mono font Extensions: EditorConfig ESLint GitHub Pull Requests GitHub Repositories Import Cost MDX Prettier Remote Development Pack Stylelint Word Count Homebrew View my messy Brewfile dump {" "} with all of my installed packages. Xcode Docker Desktop Parallels Desktop Pro Switched from VMware Fusion when Parallels beat them to the punch with{" "} M1 support. Sketch Adobe Creative Cloud Still on the $20/month{" "} Student Plan, somehow. ๐Ÿคซ Will need to re-evaulate once I'm kicked off; it's hard to justify spending almost 3x that... Transmit Sequel Pro {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus Robo 3T {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus ImageOptim Sip Local {" "} for WordPress development.

๐ŸŒŽ Browsing

Firefox {" "} ๐ŸฆŠ My default user.js settings. Extensions: 1Password Classic BetterTTV Dark Reader Decentraleyes Mailvelope React Developer Tools OctoLinker Privacy Badger uBlock Origin Google Chrome {" "} ๐Ÿ˜ˆ For testing only! See more of my de-Googling efforts below. Extensions: AMP Validator Lighthouse React Developer Tools

๐Ÿ’ป macOS

1Password Little Snitch iStat Menus Backblaze {" "} (referral link) Silicon Info MacUpdater AppCleaner GPG Suite VLC โ†’{" "} IINA Transmission Amphetamine coconutBattery The Unarchiver Unshaky {" "} โŒจ๏ธ (on my 2018 MBP) Toooo  lzy too vist   the  Aple Stre geeniusses oonce  agin  to fiix tthe  keeybbbboord. ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿฆ‹

๐Ÿ“ฑ iOS

I have far too many apps to count, but here the essentials that have earned a spot on my home screen:

1Password (beta) Waze (beta) Google Maps YouTube TV SiriusXM Audible Pocket Casts Sonos Plex (beta) Discord

โ˜๏ธ Cloud

I've been making recent efforts to de-Google my life, with mixed results...

Gmail โ†’{" "} Fastmail {" "} (referral link) &{" "} Mail.app Google Drive โ†’ Dropbox โ†’{" "} iCloud Drive Read why. Google Docs โ†’{" "} Microsoft Office {" "} (hey, it works ๐Ÿคท) Google Photos โ†’{" "} iCloud Photos Google Analytics โ†’{" "} Fathom Analytics {" "} (referral link) Google Public DNS โ†’{" "} Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 {" "} on my home network. GoDaddy โ†’ Google Domains โ†’{" "} Cloudflare Registrar {" "} (and{" "} ISNIC {" "} for this domain, of course ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ)

Other geeky stuff:

Vercel {" "} and{" "} Netlify {" "} for "serverless" sites. DigitalOcean {" "} (referral link) and{" "} Linode {" "} (referral link) for virtual Linux servers. DNSimple {" "} (referral link) and{" "} Cloudflare {" "} for domain DNS. Backblaze {" "} (referral link) for off-site Mac backups. Gitea {" "} as a self-hosted Git backup/mirror. Tailscale {" "} and{" "} Cloudflare Tunnel {" "} to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere.

๐Ÿ  Internet of Things Crap

TP-Link Archer AX90 Dell Inspiron 3647 , upgraded to a Core i7-4790S and 16 GB of memory to dress it up as a really crappy{" "} VMware ESXi {" "} server, running a few Ubuntu VMs with: Plex Sonarr{" "} Radarr Transmission (via web client) Homebridge WireGuard Philips Hue {" "} color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc. 2x{" "} ecobee3 lite {" "} smart thermostats (HomeKit support was a must.) 2x{" "} Sonos One {" "} (with Alexa turned off...allegedly.) 2x{" "} Apple TV 4K (2021) ); }; export default Uses;