I often get a asked about the specifics of some piece of software or hardware I use.

I change up things fairly often, so this page will serve as a living document and a place to point curious developers/designers to when I get asked.

Code Editor

Visual Studio Code is my current editor which I switched to in June 2018 after years of Sublime Text.

VSCode Extensions

• Auto Rename Tag (automatically rename paired HTML/XML Tags)
• AWS Toolkit (useful if you work with AWS)
• Bracket Pair Colorizer (colorize matching brackets, improves readability when using a lot of curly-braces!)
• Code Spell Checker (spell-check your code!)
• ESlint (integrates ESLint into VSCode)
• GitLens (best extension ever for Git related tasks!)
• Indenticator (visually highlights the current indent depth)
• Live Share (allows other developers to collaborate in real time)
• markdownlint (linting & style checking for markdown files)
• Material Icon Theme (improves VSCode folder icons)
• Material Theme (better VSCode themes)
• npm Intellisense (autocompletes import statements)
• Path Intellisense (autocompletes file names)
• Prettier (code formatter)
• Python (linting, Debugging (multi-threaded, remote), Intellisense, Jupyter Notebooks, code formatting, refactoring, unit tests, snippets, and more...)
• Quokka.js (Javascript playground)

You can see most of my config files (.eslint, VS Code settings) over at my Dot Files repo but please don't just take these settings carte blanche - they work for me but might not be the best.

Desktop Apps

• For image processing, I use Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom.
• For video processing, I use Final Cut Pro + Adobe After Effects
• I design almost entirely in Figma. In my opinion, it is much better than Adobe XD and Sketch. I still use Adobe Illustrator for more advanced illustration tools
• I'm a huge Alfred fan and have many workflows to boost my productivity (ie: Github, FontAwesome, Spotify, Can I Use, Faker, StackOverflow, Package Managers ...etc). Most of them you can find and download in this repository.
• BetterTouchTool is essential to boost my workflow/efficiency using Keyboard shortcuts, custom gestures & special mouse movements, custom Touch Bar.
• Insomnia for HTTP request testing (similar to Postman)
• Little Snitch, a privacy must!
• f.lux to reduce blue colors & eye strain
• CleanMyMac to always keep my mac clean from junk & boost the memory
• I backup with 1 time machine local HDD, Dropbox and iCloud Drive for most files.
• Slack & Discord to communicate with people

Hardware & Setup

• My desk is an Ikea standing desk: Skarsta
• My main monitor: LG 29" UltraWide
• I use an M1 MacBook Pro 13" 16Gb Memory & 1To Storage.
• I have an iPad mini 2019 that I use from time to time when I need multiple screens or when I have to use the Apple Pencil.
• Apple Watch 6 44mm
• The Mouse & keyboard is are Logitech MX Master 3
• Main Speaker/Lamp is a Synfonisk
• Apple Airpods Pro & Bose QC35 as a main headset
• Plus, some decoration items from Ikea (clock, lamp, ipad holder ...)