Software I use, gadgets I love.

I get asked a lot about the things I use to build software, stay productive, or buy to fool myself into thinking I'm being productive when I'm really just procrastinating. Here's the list.

Workstation

• 14" MacBook M3 Pro My trusty sidekick for most dev needs.
• Apple Studio Display Coming from LG's 27" UltraFine 5K IPS monitor, I have enjoyed the transition to the Apple Studio Display.
• MX Mechanical Love the travel time and sound of this keyboard.
• MX Master 3S Long-time MX Master user.

Development

• Ghostty A fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
• Stacks The Stacks.js ecosystem is key to my productivity. It streamlines my local development experience and automates management of all my resources.
• Zed Zed is an amazing code editor! Reminds me a little of Sublime Text.
• TablePlus Over the years I have used many database tools, and TablePlus is the one that stuck. Great tool for working with databases.
• GitHub Desktop My trusty sidekick for most git needs. No shame.

Design

• Figma We started using Figma as just a design tool, but now we dump much more into it.

Productivity

• Raycast Makes it simple, fast, and delightful to control my tools. I love assigning custom keyboard shortcuts to anything I use frequently.
• Apple Passwords Go-to password manager.
• SavvyCal Great tool for scheduling meetings while protecting my calendar.
• Muzzle Automatically blocks incoming notifications when I'm in meetings.
• Caffeine Automatically keeps my computer awake when it should not be sleeping.