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Applications

VS Code
- Karma theme by yours truly!
- Previously: Brackets, Sublime Text and Atom
Spotify
Pocket Casts
Arc
- Chrome for everything work related
- Safari to make sure whatever I build works across browsers, and when I need to conserve my battery usage (Safari is incredibly battery-efficient)
- ~~Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work~~
- Microsoft Edge for development since it's better at RAM usage than FDE
Notion for task management, long-term planning and notes
Obsidian for quick notes, mind-mapping and managing my newsletter
Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩
iTerm2 with Oh my Zsh and Starship
Iosevka font
Brew the package manager for macOS

Helper apps

Amphetamine super useful when you want to prevent your system from falling asleep
Raycast a better alternative for a growing list of apps:
- ~~Rocket~~ emojis, everywhere!
- ~~Alfred~~ a much better Spotlight
- ~~Maccy~~ for lack of better words, a copy-paste manager? allows you to search through your historical copy-s, super helpful
- ~~Rectangle~~ a window manager; I love that I can arrange my windows exactly how I want using just keyboard shortcuts
1Password password manager which really checks off all the right boxes
Karabiner-Elements Keyboard customizer with Caps Lock enhancement

VS Code Extensions

I believe that the tools and tooling that you use does play a role in making you a more efficient programmer, and a couple of mostly quality-of-life extensions that I use with VS Code are:

Error Lens highlight the entire line wherever a diagnostic is generated and print the message inline.
GitLens Find out who to blame quicker—spoiler, it's you.
Todo Tree search your workspace for comment tags like TODO and FIXME, and display them in a tree view. 🌳
Karma Duh.

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Applications

Helper apps

VS Code Extensions

Equipment

Keyboards

Sound