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Applications

VS Code
- Karma theme by yours truly!
- Previously: Brackets, Sublime Text and Atom
Spotify
Pocket Casts
Figma
Firefox
- 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
Discord
Insomnia
Cron for managing calendars and quick scheduling
iTerm2 with Oh my Zsh and Starship
Iosevka font

Helper apps

Brew the package manager for macOS
Amphetamine super useful when you want to prevent your system from falling asleep
~~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~~
Raycast a better alternative for a growing list of apps like: Spotlight/Alfred, Maccy, Rectangle and Rocket.
Flux helps dim/yellow/orange your screen down when it starts to get late at night
Muzzle prevent notifications from popping up when you're sharing your screen
1Password password manager which really checks off all the right boxes
Pock make your touchbar actually useful
Unsplash regularly changing wallpapers of absolutely wow quality
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.

Equipment

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