Uses

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

Devices

Ghostty.
Zellij.
I use Fish as my command line shell. There has been some rough edges, should’ve went with a bash-compatible shell.

I use lazygit most of the time.
I also bought licenses for both Fork and Sublime Merge back when I was a normie. But admittedly, I still use them at times when I get frustrated at git log --graph (Also, because lazygit does not have pretty graphs).
TablePlus for relational databases. Caved in with the limited tabs, and now I got two licenses, one for my work laptop, and another for my personal use.
Figma at work, Penpot for personal endeavors.
Excalidraw for quick diagrams and even wireframes.
I still use Balsamiq Wireframes Desktop app. For some reason, it’s still faster to wireframe using Balsamiq.

Obsidian.
I still use Apple Notes when using my iPad because it got better Apple Pencil support.
- Although admittedly, I find myself using Freeform more often than Apple Notes in my iPad during meetings. The infinite canvas behavior is just awesome.
We use Confluence at work… because Jira.
Teams for work.
Slack and Discord for communities I’m part of.
1Password for now, but figuring out how to ditch this one soon. It’s too good to ditch as of now though :|
CleanShot X.
Shottr when I need the pixels. Got a license, here’s to me hoping the dev continues to improve it. Still cheaper than Cleanshot’s PixelSnap.
Presentify for screen annotations while presenting. Easily the most used app that I bought out of impulse.
Raycast.
Grammarly. Still better than Microsoft Editor.
Arc for my primary browser. Still using it even though the browser company is pivoting to another project.

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 from Amazon.
Apple Books is a pretty decent ePub reader. Most books from Manning is read here, as it isn’t as nice looking to my eyes when loaded to Kindle.
OneDrive as my primary cloud storage.
- 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.
- My wife went back to Android, so we’ll use M$ for anything collaborative (Word, Excel, etc.).
iCloud for my notes and files.
Procreate for drawing.