/uses
I sometimes get asked about the software, hardware, and tools I use, so here is the full list.
Hardware
- Coding laptop - M1 MacBook Air 13" 2020
- Keyboard - Das Keyboard 4Q
- Mouse - Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
- Monitor - LG 27UL850
- Gaming laptop - Gigabyte Gaming G5 KF
Accessories
- Laptop stand - Roost V3
- Glasses - Gunnar Optiks Attaché
Software
- Blog (this website) - hosted on Ghost
- Browser - Brave
- Coding - I use Visual Studio Code for web development. For Flutter projects I use Android Studio.
- Clipboard management - Maccy
- Emojis - Rocket
- Journaling, reports, lists - Notion
- Music - YouTube Music
- Notes - Obsidian
- Password management - Bitwarden
- Screenshots - Lightshot
- Terminal - iTerm2
- Diagrams and graphs - Excalidraw
Mobile Apps
- Blinkist - audiobooks in short versions
- Duolingo - I start every morning with coffee and one Duolingo lesson
- Genopets - a pet that grows with steps you make
- Google Keep - an easy-to-use app for notes, lists, and reminders
- Reddit - best entertainment app
- Shazam - you won't ask "What's that song?" with this app
- Stocard - store loyalty cards in the app instead of carrying them all the time
- Strava - record your time and steps on runs and walks
- WhatsApp - best messaging app
Visual Studio Code extensions
- Auto Close Tag - automatically adds closing HTML tag in code
- Auto Rename Tag - automatically renames paired HTML tags in code
- Beter Comments - helps you write better comments in the code
- Bookmark - "bookmark" positions in project files so you can easily jump to them later
- Code Spell Checker - detects those pesky typos in code
- DotENV - syntax highlighting for
.env
files - Error Lens - error/warning messages that scream to you, so you don't miss them
- ES7+ React/Redux/React-Native snippets - must-have for React devs
- Git Lens - makes work with git easier
- Highlight Matching Tag - highlights paired HTML tags
- Import Cost - displays "cost" of your imports
- Live Server - quick development server with browser reload
- Material Icon Theme - files and folders look better with this theme
- Prettier - best code formatter
- Project Manager - my favorite project/repository organizer
- Svg Preview - lets you preview SVG files in VS Code
- Tokyo Night - my favorite theme
Android studio plugins
- CPU Usage - CPU usage indicator in the status bar
- Inspection Lens - shows errors, warnings, and other inspection highlights inline.
- Flutter Asset Autocompletion - helps you complete the asset path
- Grazie Lite - intelligent spelling and grammar checks
- Nyan Progress Bar - pretty progress bars with nyan cat
- Rainbow Brackets - highlights matching bracket pair
- String Manipulation - case switching, sorting, filtering, incrementing, aligning to columns, everything you need when working with strings
- Tokyo Night Theme - my favorite theme