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Manu uses

A comprehensive list of software & plugins I use in my day to day work
Posted over 1 year ago
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In the many years of development and more recently since I've started teaching & mentoring, I get a lot of questions in regards to the stack and the settings that I use.

Generally, my favorite OS to work on is MacOS but I swap consistently between Mac and Windows, because my Windows machine is the gaming rig and I can do things easier there than on Mac. But for everything work related, I go with Apple products, albeit their pricing point is (I would say it was) higher.

Apps

  • VSCode for everything From time to time I dabble with Fleet, when learning Rust as I feel the "Smart Mode" does a better job at indexing libraries and helps out better with autocomplete
  • Hyper (Windows) as my terminal
  • Warp (Mac)Classy & lovely terminal, interesting features out of the box, AI automplete, using it at the moment as my main terminal
  • iTerm (Mac) as my stable backup in case some serious bugs creep up in Warp
  • DBeaver Should satisfy most of your UI DB needs
  • Postman should help with any API calls

Others

  • Fira Code as my main programming font - besides it's beautry, I like to look for a monospaced font that has font ligatures . Usually when you go with ligatures, you don't really come back
  • Notes (Mac) iOS native app for my notekeeping, brainfarts, shopping lists and everything in between
  • Brave as my main browser of choice (Before that it was Chrome and before that for most years I''ve used Opera)
  • Discord as one of my base communication tools
  • Spotify For my music needs
  • GitLab as my main Git repo storage with GitHub as the backup Git service.
  • f.lux For late night coding sessions
  • Signal for private messaging

Extensions for VSCode

Now extensions are subjective because they can change, some people might preffer X instead of Y, but here goes a general list:

  • Material Icon Theme In general I recommend having any kind of icon theme, usually better than the default.
  • One Dark Pro The Darker version works well for me
  • CodeSnap For whenever I need to do a nice looking snippet, codesnap is there to save me
  • Docker Although I don't use it as much as I previously did, it's still a useful tool to have to start/stop/visualize your docker containers
  • DotENV I would have hoped to have this syntax support by default, but it's not (yet?); so a extension to help with this
  • ESLint For all the missing linting needs that you might have in VSCode
  • ImportCost Very useful when you want to quickly see how much a import will add to your bundle
  • NpmDepencency I don't know why this is not a feature

Devices

  • MacMini 2021
  • MacBook Pro 2021 16"
  • Desktop - Ryzen 9/32GB/3070

Other hardware

  • Wireless Magic Keyboard 2021 with Numpad
  • Corsair K70 LUX
  • Logitech Pro Superlight
  • Logitech MX Master 3S
  • Logitech C922
  • Blue Yeti
  • Logitech ProX Headset
  • 2 x 2K 27" Dell monitors

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