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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 15 Pro 512 GB in Natural Titanium TORRAS Magnetic Shockproof Case (surprisingly nice, also in Natural Titanium) 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 Zero Trust {" "} to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere.

๐Ÿ  Internet of Things Crap

UniFi Dream Router , plus: 2x{" "} Switch Flex Mini SmartPower Plug{" "} (It's Comcastic!โ„ข) An overpowered custom homelab server, powered by an{" "} ASUS Q87M-E board,{" "} i7-4790S , 32 GB of RAM, 3x recertified{" "} 16TB WD Ultrastar {" "} drives, and Ubuntu Server 22.04, in a cheap{" "} Thermaltake Versa H22 case with expensive{" "} Noctua ๐ŸคŽ fans. Used mainly for local file sharing via Samba and running{" "} a few Docker containers, including: Plex Sonarr, Radarr,{" "} Bazarr,{" "} Prowlarr qBittorrent (web client) Tautulli Home Assistant WireGuard Cloudflare Tunnel Full post with more details coming soon! Philips Hue {" "} color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc. 2x{" "} ecobee3 lite 2x{" "} Sonos One {" "} (with Alexa turned off...hopefully? ๐Ÿคซ) 2x{" "} Apple TV 4K (2021) ); }; export default Uses;