Stuff I use on the daily.
Software that makes my life easier, hardware that makes my life better, and everything in between.
Workstation
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16” MacBook Pro, M1 Max, 64GB RAM
This is by far the best laptop I've ever owned, period. The screen is downright amazing, the performance incredible and a full charge lasts all day! I reckon I'll be using this piece of kit until it falls apart.
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Dell U3818DW and Dell U2717D
Monitors that I've accumulated over the years. The ultrawide one was from back when I was rocking an Intel Mac mini (2018) and was supposed to replace the 27" monitor, but I've kept both for some reason. They now provide more than enough screen real estate for me to do my thing. I'd love something with a higher DPI though...
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Herman Miller Aeron Chair
The Ikea Markus chair that I was using prior to this had seen better days. When the pandemic hit and working from home became the default, I figured a new desk chair would be in order. Following the "spend your money where you invest your time" motto led me to this chair. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? Absolutely.
Development tools
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Sublime Text
I once wrote code full-time using Sublime Text. Those days have passed, but I still keep this editor around for quick edits and text manipulation.
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Sublime Merge
I'm generally more of a CLI man myself, but after giving Sublime Merge a try I've become rather fond of it. Makes it more pleasant to review commits and doing a rebase.
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Jetbrains IDE's
As a generalist, I'm using different Jetbrains IDE's for different projects. GoLand and WebStorm are seeing the most mileage these days.
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Ghostty
I can't live without my terminal, I just can't.
I've used iTerm and the default Terminal.app from macOS quite extensively but Ghostty is on a whole other level: it feels native, it's fast and needs less fiddling with the configuration.
Design
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Affinity Designer & Photo
I don't really do much design, but whenever I do: Affinity Designer & Photo will do the trick.
Productivity
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Bear
I'll use Apple Notes on occasion, but Bear is currently the default for note taking. It gets so many things right: typing in markdown, code snippets, tagging, ...
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Things
I've basically poured every aspect of my life into Things. I'm using it for the obvious things but I've also used it for habit-building.
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Alfred
A fine alternative for Spotlight! I use it for triggering custom workflows, opening applications and searching for files and folders.
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1Password
A place to store passwords and other secrets. Liked v7 better though.
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Transmit
Doesn't see much use as of late, but the license I bought back in 2017 still works and the app does have a pretty icon, I mean... Also comes in handy for quick file transfers across servers.