Uses

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

Devices

• 13" MacBook Air M1 (Work, company provided).
• 14" MacBook Pro M1 Max (Personal, experiments, personal projects).
• Lenovo Q24H-10 23.8" Monitor.
• Magic Keyboard.
• Magic Mouse.
• Sony WH-1000XM5.
• iPad Mini.

Editor

• Neovim.

Terminal

• I use plain old iTerm2.
• I use Fish as my command line shell.

Other Dev-ish Tools

• 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.
• 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.

Productivity Apps

• Recently gave up on Bear, and switched over to 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.
• Slack for work.
• Forcing Discord for non-gaming use.
• 1Password for now, but figuring out how to ditch this one soon.
  • The older I get, the more Asian I become, i.e. the more cheapskate I become.
  • Bitwarden is great, but their desktop app isn’t.
• 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.
• Maccy as my clipboard manager.
• Grammarly. Still better than Microsoft Editor.
• Firefox at work, just because.
• Safari for personal use.
  • Not because it’s great, but because I’m trying out Apple Keychain as an alternative that would eventually help me ditch 1Password.

Other Apps for weird flex

• 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 backup 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 photos, notes, and files.
• Procreate for drawing.