It’s that random time of the year when I list the tools I’ve been enjoying.
Browser
1 Brave
2 Opera
3 Firefox
IDE
VS Code
Sublime Text
Design
Figma
Noun Project
Lucide icons (https://lucide.dev/)
Dev tools, Devops CI/CD
Supabase
Render.com
Vercel
Gitlab and Bitbucket are out Github is in
MAMP
Fork (client for Git)
Cloudflare
AWS and AliCloud is out Digital Ocean is in
Docker much more in this year
Database
Postico2
DB visualiser
SQL pro
MySQL is out Postgres is in.
Multimedia & Rditing
Davinci Resolve 18 is in this year
Fotor
VLC
Audacity
Ableton
AI
ChatGPT
Github Copilot ditched
No Code
Webflow
Plasmic
Appsmith
Retool
Flutterflow
Project Management & Tools
Jira
Confluence
Jira Product Discovery
Trello
1password
Google Drive / Keep
Slack
Toggl
Hardware
MacBook Pro 2021, 14″ 32GB M1 1TB
Logitec M650L mouse. Love it. AA battery powered.
Original neglected K1 Keychron Gen 1. Had bluetooth problems from the start.
Saumsung C27JG5x 27″
On the move
Magic Keyboard small with leatherette sleeve.
Nulaxy Aluminium fold-flat laptop stand
Frameworks
NextJS – not really enjoying the transition.
Tailwind
CMS of choice
Still WordPress