Some of what I use
Includes my desk setup, apps I use daily and more.
Development
- Zed is my primary code editor, with XY-Zed theme and BerkeleyMono Nerd Font
- iTerm2 terminal with ZSH and OhMyZsh! Trying out Ghostty, liking it so far
- Orbstack a really fast alternative to Docker Desktop
- Postico a wonderful GUI to browser Postgres Databases.
- Hoppscotch for API testing, slowly moving to posting
- Tuple for code pairing
- Tailscale for connecting with my VPS and other devices, also for tunnelling
Daily Apps
- Rectangles.app for window management
- Notion Calendar is my calendar app these days, formerly known as Cron
- Raycast, spotlight replacement
- Craft.do and Apple Notes for note taking
- Picoletter for newsletters
- Cleanshot X
- Pika Color Picker
- Termius for SSH
- Bitwarden and 1Password are my go-to password managers for personal and work profiles
- Ente Auth for 2FA
- GoodNotes for reading and annotating papers on my iPad, trying Research by UNMS on my Mac
- Discord for interacting with the Chatwoot and VueIndia community
- Flighty for keeping a track of my flights
- Fold Money for tracking my expenses and investments
Hardware
- BenQ DesignVue PD2706UA is my monitor of choice, excellent colors and runs the whole setup with a single USB-C cable
- I use a M1 Pro, MacBook Pro 2021 with 16GB RAM for work, I also have a personal M1 Macbook Air I ocassionaly use
- I keep an iPad Air M1 with an Apple Pencil as a secondary display when I am on the road and need some screen real estate.
- A Yubikey for hardware 2FA.
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for hacking or as a mobile terminal over tailscale SSH
- My Logitech MX Master 2S has been running strong for the past 5 year, I’ll probably replace it with the 3S if it stops working
- Been using the 1st gen Airpods Pro for over 3 years now, super convenient, great noise cancellation
- Apple Magic Keyboard & Trackpad, they are great default options, so got em
- Herman Miller Celle chair I bought at a clearance sale.
- RodaNotes Notepad Slim on the side to quickly write ideas, todos, etc.
- Apple Homepod Mini on my desk for music and podcasts.
- Kickstand MagSafe Charger from ESR.
Last updated on 7 Jan 2025