/uses 💻

I regularly get messages asking about which tools I use to work.

Nobody has asked me what I use. Ever. But here's a list of my daily drivers and necessities anyways, mostly revolving around my Apple sheepy-ness. Inspired by many, many others. ❤️

🍎 Hardware

• MacBook Air (2020)
  • Apple M1 (8‑core CPU, 8‑core GPU) 🏎️💨
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 1 TB SSD
• MacBook Pro 15" (Mid-2018)
  • Core i9 @ 2.9 GHZ, theoretically 🔥🧯🚒
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 1 TB SSD
  • Radeon Pro 560X – 4 GB
  • Most importantly, I haven't touched it since M1 stole my heart (for a third of the price). 💔
• iPhone 13 Pro
  • 512 GB in Graphite 😎
  • Abyss Blue Silicone Case
  • Saddle Brown Leather "Wallet"
  • Belkin's MagSafe Car Vent Mount Pro is awesome too, btw.
• iPad Pro 10.5"
  • 256 GB in Space Gray
  • Smart Keyboard & Apple Pencil
• Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS)
  • Aluminum – Space Gray
  • 40mm (I have incredibly small wrists.)
  • Usually with the Midnight Blue sport band, 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Edition woven nylon band, or employee 🏋️ Close Your Rings Challenge woven nylon band.
• Google Pixel 4a
  • For some recreational Android development and experimentation.
  • Activated on Google Fi during rare trips.
  • Really just putting this here in a futile effort to prove I'm not a complete Apple sheep. 🐑

💾 Development

• iTerm 2
  • My various ZSH aliases and functions are in my .dotfiles repository.
  • Oh My ZSH
    • zsh-autosuggestions
    • zsh-syntax-highlighting
• Visual Studio Code
  • All of my settings.
  • Themes:
    • GitHub Dark theme
    • Material Icon theme
    • SF Mono font
  • Extensions:
    • EditorConfig
    • ESLint
    • GitHub Pull Requests
    • GitHub Repositories
    • Import Cost
    • MDX
    • Prettier
    • Remote Development Pack
    • Stylelint
    • Word Count
• Homebrew
  • View my messy Brewfile dump with all of my installed packages.
• Xcode
• Docker Desktop
• Parallels Desktop Pro
  • Switched from VMware Fusion when Parallels beat them to the punch with M1 support.
• Sketch
• Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Still on the $20/month Student Plan, somehow. 🤫 Will need to re-evaulate once I'm kicked off; it's hard to justify spending almost 3x that...
• Transmit
• Sequel Pro → TablePlus
• Robo 3T → TablePlus
• ImageOptim
• Sip
• Local for WordPress development.

🌎 Browsing

• Firefox 🦊
  • My default user.js settings.
  • Extensions:
    • 1Password Classic
    • BetterTTV
    • Dark Reader
    • Decentraleyes
    • Mailvelope
    • React Developer Tools
    • OctoLinker
    • Privacy Badger
    • uBlock Origin
• Google Chrome 😈
  • For testing only! See more of my de-Googling efforts below.
  • Extensions:
    • AMP Validator
    • Lighthouse
    • React Developer Tools

💻 macOS

• 1Password
• Little Snitch
• iStat Menus
• Backblaze (referral link)
• Silicon Info
• MacUpdater
• AppCleaner
• GPG Suite
• VLC → IINA
• Transmission
• Amphetamine
• coconutBattery
• The Unarchiver
• Unshaky ⌨️ (on my 2018 MBP)
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📱 iOS

I have far too many apps to count, but here the essentials that have earned a spot on my home screen:

• 1Password (beta)
• Waze (beta)
• Google Maps
• YouTube TV
• SiriusXM
• Audible
• Pocket Casts
• Sonos
• Plex (beta)
• Discord

☁️ Cloud

I've been making recent efforts to de-Google my life, with mixed results...

• Gmail → Fastmail (referral link) & Mail.app
• Google Drive → Dropbox → iCloud Drive
  • Read why.
• Google Docs → Microsoft Office (hey, it works 🤷)
• Google Photos → iCloud Photos
• Google Analytics → Fathom Analytics (referral link)
• Google Public DNS → Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 on my home network.
• GoDaddy → Google Domains → Cloudflare Registrar (and ISNIC for this domain, of course 🇮🇸)

Other geeky stuff:

• Vercel and Netlify for "serverless" sites.
• DigitalOcean (referral link) and Linode (referral link) for virtual Linux servers.
• DNSimple (referral link) and Cloudflare for domain DNS.
• Backblaze (referral link) for off-site Mac backups.
• Gitea as a self-hosted Git backup/mirror.
• Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere.

🏠 Internet of Things Crap

• TP-Link Archer AX90
• Dell Inspiron 3647, upgraded to a Core i7-4790S and 16 GB of memory to dress it up as a really crappy VMware ESXi server, running a few Ubuntu VMs with:
  • Plex
  • Sonarr
  • Radarr
  • Transmission (via web client)
  • Homebridge
  • WireGuard
• Philips Hue color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc.
• 2x ecobee3 lite smart thermostats (HomeKit support was a must.)
• 2x Sonos One (with Alexa turned off...allegedly.)
• 2x Apple TV 4K (2021)