Uses
This is the list of tools, software and services I use on a daily basis.
If you are interested in more tech setups, you can check uses.tech.
MacOS software
Organisation
- Things: my task manager.
- Bear: for scratchpad, quick captures, daily notes, working on projects.
- Obsidian: to organize and archive all my personal knowledge.
Tools
- Raycast: App launcher, and much much more. Spiritual descendant of Alfred. I will probably write a dedicated post to detail how I use it.
- 1 Password: password manager ➡️ transitioning to Proton Pass.
- iStat menus: monitor your Mac in your menubar.
- Look Away: get periodically a nice reminder to rest your eyes for a few seconds.
- Itsycal: replace the default date & time in the menubar, with a drop down calendar.
- Transmit: robust app for transfer files through a lot of protocols (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and more).
- The Unarchiver: open archived files from any format.
Web
- Zen: current main Web browser
- Reeder Classic: RSS client (RSS is not dead!).
- Linkding: self-hosted bookmark manager.
Development
- PHPStorm: main IDE.
- TablePlus: database client.
- DBNgin: to work with database locally.
- Fork: Git client.
- iTerm2: terminal replacement.
- RapidAPI (formerly Paw): API client.
- Visual Code Studio: when I need to quickly edit a code file.
Development tools
- git: because who writes code without versioning it?
- Ansible: manage your installations as code.
- tfenv: terraform version manager.
- nvm: node.js version manager.
- nmap: network tool.
- telnet
- caddy: to setup local web server easily.
Terminal improvement
- Homebrew: package manager for MacOS.
- htop:
topwith a better UX.- btop: even better UX!
- fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder.
- fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' (used combined with fzf).
- fzf-git: bash and zsh key bindings for Git objects, powered by fzf.
- git-delta: improve how diff are displayed in the terminal.
- eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls.
- zoxide: a better
cd. - bat: a
catclone with syntax highlighting and Git integration. - tlrc: client for
tldrwhich provides simple human readable version ofmandocumentation. - jq: command-line JSON processor.
- gron: make JSON greppable.
- vim: powerful terminal text editor.
- Font: Fira Code Nerd Font: a patched version of Fira Code (which is an awesome coding font with ligatures) that includes also 10k+ icons.
Social
Entertainment
Services
Web
- Fastmail: Was on Gmail for years, switched for a more privacy-friendly company.
Entertainment
- Letterboxd: logging every movie I (re)watch 🍿
- Trakt: logging every TV show I (re)watch 📺
- Backloggd: logging every video game I play 🎮
- Last.fm: logging every song I listen to 🎵
Finance
- YNAB (You need a budget): manage your money, changed my life.