Tools That I Use

Uses

Things I use to get stuff done. Inspired by awesome-use

Hardware

• 💻 Laptop -> MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019)
• 🖱 Mouse -> MX Maste 2S
• ⌨️ Keyboard -> G213
• 🎧 Headphones -> Airpods Pro for personal use & h600 for office use

Development

Editor

1. VS Code

   • Solarized Dark, built-in theme with below confguration

     {
         "workbench.colorTheme": "Solarized Dark",
         "workbench.colorCustomizations":{
             "editor.background": "#121212",
         },
     
     }
     

   • I alternate between default and Nerd Fonts - Hack

   • Extentions,

     • Bracket Pair Colorizer 2, it is deprecated and its a built-in feature now in VScode.

       {
           "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true
       }
       

     • Ansible by Red Hat

     • HashiCorp Terraform by HashiCorp

     • Docker by Microsoft

     • markdownlint by David Anson

     • YAML by Red Hat

     • Go by Go Team at Google

     • autoDocstring - Python Docstring Generator by Nils Werner

     • Python Extension Pack by Don Jayamanne

     • Jinja by wholroyd

2. Notepad++, just for casual editing

Terminal

1. iTerm2 - Much more customizable than Terminal.app. Has better theming support, and a bunch of other functionality that I don’t really use
   • I’m using BlueMatrix theme
2. Fish Shell is a smart and user-friendly command line shell with a ton of productivity features, git status in the prompt, super great auto-completion and history searching
   • Fisher - Plugin manager
   • TIDE - Shell theme. Use version 5: fisher install ilancosman/tide@v5
   • Nerd fonts - Powerline-patched fonts. I use Hack.
   • z for fish - Directory jumping
   • Exa - ls replacemen
   • ghq - Local Git repository organizer
   • peco - Interactive filtering
3. tmux - Terminal multiplxer
4. dotman - my own tool to manage and version control dotfiles

Apps

• Notion - my day to day note-taking app
• bitwarden - password manager
• Microsoft 365 - my personal office suite
• Sidekick - recently moved to this browser
• Firefox & Chrome browser
• Slack & Teams - for office communication
• Outlook - for both office and personal use
• Figma - for designing, editing and creating logos
• Blender & MagicaVoxel - for creating 3d objects and lighting