🖥 Hardware
- iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021) 16 GB RAM
- iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
- Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
- Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones
- Yeti Stereo Microphone
👨🏽🎨 Create and Design
- Affinity Studio - The best Adobe competitor on the market.
- Obsidian - Markdown-based writing and note-taking tool.
- Figma - UX design and prototyping.
🧑🏽💻 Other Development Tools
- ColorSlurp - I’ve tried a bunch of color picker tools. For some reason, this one has stuck.
- DataGrip - Cross-platform database IDE by JetBrains.
- Ghostty - Fast, extensible, cross-platform terminal emulator.
- ImageOptim - Batch image compression. Makes optimizing image files super fast and easy.
- Visual Studio Code - Code editor for just about anything (Go, React, Rust, Typescript, etc…)
🖥 Typography
- Blambot - All the comic fonts you will ever need. But for reals, this time.
- Brandon Nickerson - A tremendous collection of versitile fonts.
- Floodfonts - By Felix Braden.
- Harbor Type - A small but amazing collection.
- Mark Simonson - Proxima Nova and other fonts that aren’t Proxima Nova.
🖌 Everything Else
- 1Password - Everyone should be using a password manager.
- TabTab - I used to use AltTab, but now I use TabTab. I really like its UX choices.
- Capture - A newer note-taking app that grabs your ideas and gets out of the way.
- Homebrew - The missing MacOS package manager.
- iStat Menus - Menu-bar based performance statistics.
- Keka - File archiving and unarchiving.
- Little Snitch - Ever wonder what your apps are connecting to while you’re not looking? Little Snitch will tell you.
- Mela - I resisted a dedicated recipe manager for ages. Mela showed me how mistaken I was.
- Paste - If you copy and you paste, you want a clipboard manager. Paste is currently my favorite.
- Raycast - Scriptable, extensible app launcher geared to developers.
🕸️ This Site
- Astro - Static site generation.
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