There are times where people ask me about what software or gear I am using. This page will serve as a living document for people to always know the latest and greatest.

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This page is inspired from Wes Bos' Uses page.

Hardware

  • Laptop
    • MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) with M1 Max + 64GB RAM + 2TB SSD
  • Tablet
    • iPad Pro 11-inch
  • Phones
    • iPhone 15 Pro
    • Pixel 8 Pro
  • Headphones
    • AirPods Pro v2
    • AirPods Max

Editor & Terminal

  • Visual Studio Code is my code editor of choice. I was a die-hard Sublime Text fan before and even bought a license with my own money. So suffice to say I went kicking and screaming over to VS Code, but honestly I can't imagine going back.
    • Night Owl (Dark) has been my theme of choice for many years now. I occasionally switch to a new one from time to time, but this is a staple for me and has even made it into my Obsidian theme as well!
      • If you're looking for another option, Cobalt2 Workspace Theme was a favorite of mine for many years as well. Highly recommended!
  • iTerm2 is my terminal of choice.
    • oh my zsh with powerlevel9k theme is what I use instead of bash since the overall experience is more enjoyable for me in the terminal and makes everything visually pleasing to look at
    • starship cross-shell prompt brings it all together to the perfect minimalist setup for my terminal.
  • IBM Plex Mono is my current font of choice given I do a lot of teaching and removing the ligatures helped reduce confusion.
    • That said, Operator Mono still has a special place in my book. Yes, I was crazy enough to pay $200 for it. My basic rationale was that this is something that I will be staring at for hours on end and if I love it it would be worth it. And it was.

Apps

  • 1Password is my password manager of choice. Worth every penny and I'm never going back to a password managerless life!
  • Obsidian is my note taking app of choice and will probably continue to be so for a long time.
  • Keyboard Maestro is an incredible tool for creating your own custom macros so you can get even faster with your keyboard.
    • Combining this with Karabiner-Elements allows me to create an array of scoped shortcuts with the hyper key (Cmd + Alt + Ctrl + Shift simultaneously)
  • Fantastical 2 is my calendar tool of choice since it has an incredible natural language parsing ability which allows me to very easily add new events. Also, it's very visually pleasing to look at when managing multiple calendars.
  • Dropbox is my cloud sync tool of choice. I tried other ones from Amazon and Microsoft, but the user experience on them were pretty bad. There were multiple times it would crash but not let me know why and that created a big rift of distrust on my part that they would have the files I need when I needed them.
  • Rocket is the emoji picker you always needed. It's sadly macOS only, but I imagine there is a PC alternative somewhere. Basically, you can queue up the emoji selector with a hotkey which makes for a more Slack/Discord like experience for any app you're in. And if you're concerned, you can exclude apps too if you don't want it to trigger.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about other aspects about my workflow, please submit an issue and I'll do my best to get it addressed!