Seems that a lot of developers are creating these /uses pages after discovering Wes Bos’s /uses page.

My favorite of these happens to be from Jon Suh. His /uses page includes a photo, which is what I did here.

I’m finally doing big girl work at a company so I was able to upgrade everything, and will soon upgrade the iMac.

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Gear

Let’s start with my gear.

• Mac mini - Apple
  • My old iMac’s hard disk, a Fusion Drive, was failing because APFS isn’t good on spinning drives. The CPU constantly ran high and I couldn’t get my work done. I got my old MacBook Pro back from a friend, a 2013 13” but that was much slower than the Fusion Drive 2015 iMac. This thing is a dream compared to those two machines.
• MacBook Pro 13” Late 2013
  • Used for quickie code/blog edits and admin stuff. Too slow for anything else.
• iPhone 12 Pro 256gb, Silver
• iPad Pro 12.9” late 2018 256 gb
  • This thing is a beast. Fast, and the industrial design is my favorite of Apple’s iPads to date.
• Apple Pencil
  • Still trying to figure out a use for it. I use it for editing videos and podcasts currently.
• WASD Custom Keys Mechanical Keyboard, Mac layout, MX Cherry Blue
  • Got my “brand” colors. Next is a Keychron, RGB backlighting…Down the rabbit hole I go…
• Audio-Technica ATH-MSR7BK SonicPro Over-Ear High Res Headphones
  • These things sound amazing. Seriously good upgrade over my previous Audio-Technica cans, the M50s.
• beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro 250 ohm Headphones, Gray
  • My daily drivers. All-around comfort and great sound.
• Drop + HIFIMAN HE4XX Planar Magnetic Headphones
  • New daily drivers.
• Steelcase Leap Chair
  • I bought this chair open box from Madison Seating because…well…check out the retail price…
• Heil PR 40 mic kit
  • I’ve got a rig setup where I will use this more often than I had.
• AirPods Pro
• IKEA LINNMON/ALEX Desk
  • Every programmer needs a good desk. This one is relatively inexpensive.
• Tabletop Bulb Base
  • Cute lamp that sits on my KALLAX bookshelf with a LIFX bulb in it.
• HomePods, White
  • Sold my Edifier speakers reluctantly as I really had no place and no use for them 😥. UPDATE: I bought another HomePod because of Best Buy’s ridiculous sale for $199 to make a stereo pair and damn. I can only turn the volume up to about 3 because it is so loud and just…awesome.
• KALLAX Shelf unit - black, white - IKEA
• LG 4K Monitor
• North Bayou VESA Mount
• Logitech MX Master 3 Advanced Wireless Mouse - Mid Grey
  • The best mouse I have ever used is an understatement. Better than the original in every way.
• M-Audio M-Track C-Series USB Audio Interface
  • This will drive a lot of audio…as well as record from an XLR mic which I have. Said I was cooking things up.
• FORSÅ Work Lamp from IKEA
• Amazon Echo Dot 3rd Gen
• LIFX Z Wi-Fi Smart LED Strip Starter Kit
  • Yeah. I am on the bandwagon. I am a programmer and I want my desk to feel like a rocket ship. Sue me.
• LIFX A19 Wi-fi Smart LED Bulbs
• Anchor Pro by ElevationLab
  • Great under the desk, hide your cables, headphone rack.
• IKEA Holmo 46” Floor Lamps
  • Where else am I going to put the LIFX Bulbs?
• Logitech C920S Pro HD Webcam with Privacy Shutter
  • As I do more webinars, Egghead videos, and yes, soon, streaming, I need a good webcam. I have a Streaming Amazon List that I’ll be adding to my arsenal in the next couple months.
• Asus 28” 4K UHD LED LCD Monitor
  • Getting rid of the low res monitor.
• EVEO Premium Monitor Arm Desk Mount
  • For the new monitor.
• Edifier R1280T Powered Bookshelf Speakers¹

Software

• VS Code
  • I only use this anymore for Foam, a VS Code version of Roam Research, both tools for Zettelkasten.
• Nova Editor for macOS
  • Yes, I paid $$$ for a text editor. It’s feature rich and native to macOS, which I usually don’t care about. However, you can’t deny the speed increase and easing of stress on your CPU and RAM. Plus, it’s beautiful.
• Oh My Zsh
  • I will never use a terminal without this installed.
• Boom 3D
  • This makes everything sound amazing.
• Chrome
• Alfred
  • Workflows make this my favorite app. I can’t live without it. You can find my workflows here. I have way too many, I admit.
• Text Expander
• Todoist for tasks.²
• Notion for Project management.³
• Drafts
• Fantastical for scheduling. I pay for the premium version.
• Sip for Mac for a color picker
• ScreenFlow
  • As I get into making egghead lessons and more screencasts for tiffany.blog, I need a heavy duty piece of software to do so. Screenflow fits the bill.
• StreamLabs OBS Software for Mac
  • Best OBS client on the Mac.
• CloudApp
  • This is how I share bugs and other things with devs and dev teams. Also an easy way to make a gif of a feature or bug on my Mac.
• Setapp
  • It finally has enough utilities to make it worth the subscription price for me.

I Use a lot of software, I admit

But I use ALL OF IT.

So this is my setup and what I am currently using. You can show me your dev setup on Twitter.

       

1. The latency of the HomePods when watching video on my Mac was atrocious. I bought my favorite bookshelf speakers again and couldn’t be happier. Still have the HomePods when I want to have apartment filling sound with AirPlay 2 Sonos Play:5 2nd Gen, Sonos One, and the two black HomePods I use as home theater audio with my Apple TV. It’s a party for sure. 😉 ↩

2. This is the only task manager that I actually look at and use. It is that beautiful, simple, and it has impressed me far more than any task manager in recent memory. ↩

3. This is such a deep app and I am in love with it. After avoiding it because I was a heavy user of Evernote and quite liked it, there were things that annoyed me about it. Everyone talked about this app, Notion and I signed up. Been using it for two weeks and I have paid the subscription. It’s that good. Still setting it up but here’s my dashboard. ↩