Uses | rmrz

Here’s a list of equipments and tools that I use for work and personal work-like hobbies.

Devices

I have no loyalty here.

Current Primary: Visual Studio Code.
Secondary: Sublime Text 4 (Yes, I bought the licenses for both Sublime Text 3 and 4, weird flex, I know XD).
GoLand when I need better refactoring features than what Visual Studio Code could offer.
- When I get frustrated with Visual Studio Code, I sometimes swap this as my primary IDE.
- This is a must-have plugin when using GoLand (or any Jetbrains IDE).
Victor Mono is my font of choice.

I use Fork as my go-to Git GUI client. (I have a license, another weird flex.)
- I also have a license for Sublime Merge since I bought it as a bundle with Sublime Text 4.
- Sublime Merge has better keyboard shortcuts, but you have no control on how the git log graph is grouped unlike in Fork. The whole purpose of using a Git GUI Client is for the graph though, so it’s a deal breaker.
- Resource usage wise, both are comparable, hovering around 100-300MB depending on how many repos are opened at a time.
  - Sublime Merge - Written in C++.
  - Fork - Objective-C + Swift.
I use MongoDB Compass for… MongoDB.
While TablePlus for relational databases.
I still use Postman.
Figma at work, Penpot for personal endeavors.
Excalidraw for quick diagrams and even wireframes.
- I used to use Balsamiq a lot, but they’re discontinuing their native apps. Might as well stick with the free alternative then.

Bear for almost everything note-related.
- I dabbled with Obsidian, but I have the “Electron” fatigue, where my brain prefers to go native than a webapp pretending to be native.
- On that note, I’m eager to see Bear 2 get released which would have the feature that I loved the most in Obsidian: backlinks.
I still use Apple Notes when using my iPad because it got better Apple Pencil support.
We use Confluence at work… because Jira.
Slack for work.
Forcing Discord for non-gaming use.
1Password.
CleanShot X.
Shottr when I need the pixels.
Presentify for screen annotations while presenting.
Maccy as my clipboard manager.
iStats Menu. One of my most useful impulsive buy ever which lead me see just how much RAM are eaten up by those Chrome-based apps.
Grammarly. Still better than Microsoft Editor.
Just recently started using Microsoft Edge for easy access to Bing Chat. My co-working pal that never leaves me in seen-zone.

I am unfortunately sucked into Steve’s walled garden, so I use Apple Music.
Apple Podcasts.
Reeder 5 to stay up to date with my favorite bloggers.
Kindle for my ebooks
OneDrive for personal use. It also has a personal vault which I really appreciate.
- Side note: Microsoft 365 Family is the cheapest “known” cloud service out there, even if you don’t get to take full advantage of its office desktop apps.
Unfortunately, iCloud for my photos and notes.
I use Microsoft’s office apps instead of Apple’s built-in ones.
- MS Excel is still years ahead of Numbers in my opinion.
- MS Word is still a much more pleasant writing experience than Pages when I do need to use it instead of Bear for whatever reasons I can’t think of while writing this down.