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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 Source Code Pro font Extensions: Better TOML Docker Duplicate action EditorConfig GitHub Copilot GitHub Pull Requests GitHub Repositories Live Share markdownlint npm 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. Tailscale For connecting to remote servers and my "homelab" without exposing ports to the world. Highly recommended! 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 Postman BrowserStack {" "} &{" "} Percy Sequel Pro {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus Robo 3T {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus ImageOptim Sip Local {" "} for WordPress development.

๐ŸŒŽ Browsing

Firefox {" "} ๐ŸฆŠ My default user.js settings. Add-ons: 1Password Classic BetterTTV Cookie Editor Decentraleyes Facebook Container Firefox Multi-Account Containers HTTPS Everywhere Mailvelope React Developer Tools OctoLinker Privacy Badger uBlock Origin Google Chrome {" "} ๐Ÿ˜ˆ For testing only! See more of my de-Googling efforts below. Add-ons: AMP Validator Lighthouse React Developer Tools

๐Ÿ’ป macOS

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

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 Dark Sky Xfinity Stream SiriusXM Audible Pocket Casts Sonos Plex (beta) Microsoft To-Do {" "} (RIP Wunderlist ๐Ÿ™) 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†’{" "} Netlify Analytics {" "} (my review) 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:

DNSimple {" "} (referral link) &{" "} Cloudflare {" "} for domain DNS. Netlify {" "} and{" "} Vercel {" "} for static sites. Linode {" "} (referral link) and{" "} DigitalOcean {" "} (referral link) for virtual Linux servers. Backblaze {" "} (referral link) for off-site MacBook backups. Gitea {" "} as a self-hosted Git backup/mirror. Plex {" "} +{" "} Sonarr {" "} +{" "} Radarr

๐Ÿ  Internet of Things Crap

Synology RT2600ac Synology DiskStation DS218+ Dell Inspiron 3647 , slightly upgraded and running{" "} VMware ESXi , as a really, really crappy home server. 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.) Petcube Play {" "} ๐Ÿ˜ป ); export default Uses;