Uses

VS Code – beautiful, functional, and free code editor with plugins galore

Arc – hipster Chrome

Slack – participate in local communities as a remote worker

iTerm2 and Oh-my-zsh – terminal replacement with extensibility, back outta retirement

CleanShot – Ultimate screen capturing tool

Dropbox – mostly used to access files between devices (no more emailing yourself attachments)

Homebrew – install mac system apps with ease

1password – I don’t know any of my passwords, 1password remembers them all for me

Postman – organize, test, and perform HTTP requests from a local GUI

Screenflow – use to record screen for demos, tutorials, gifs etc.

Twitter – news and friends, but also lots of vitriol

SaverScreensson – my favorite screensaver

Affinity Photo – flat rate $49 photoshop replacement

GitHub – code repositories

Bench – Bookkeeping for online businesses

Gusto – Payroll for online businesses

HelpScout – customer support tools for online businesses

Node – Javascript is the future

Yarn

Apple Music – new curated playlists every Friday

iCal

(haven’t used in >6 months)

Chrome – dislike the company, but it’s the best dev option available as of September 2022

Hyper – terminal written in JavaScript

Smallchat – live chat from website to slack channel

ChurnBuster – credit card dunning with prewritten emails and templates

ConvertKit – newsletters with better tagging and segmenting than MailChimp

TunnelBear – snuggly VPN to keep you safe and secure

nvalt (retired, replaced by Things) – the note-taking and scheduling app that has clicked for me

Alfred – huge productivity booster for me, easy launch just about anything (notes, calculations, definitions, snippets, multi clipboards. A++++)

Moom by ManyTricks – move and resize windows to preset dimensions

Local by Flywheel – best way to one-click setup a local WordPress environment

Flux – gotta protect your eyes from that blue light

Propellerhead Reason – music production

Easy Digital Downloads – the best way to sell digital products with WordPress

Arq – automated backups to the cloud

Momentum for Chrome – mostly just like the pretty images on new tabs.

Virtualbox

Vagrant

Ansible

GraphiQL

Composer

SequelPro – use to manage local and remote relational databases.