toolkit

A collection of applications, tools and other items that are essential for me.

• General
  • Basics
  • Communication
  • Entertainment
  • Security
  • Text & Notes
  • IDEs
• Development
  • Universal
  • Mobile
  • Frontend
  • Backend
  • Debugging

General

Collection of general applications and tools for day-to-day use.

Basics

The absolute basic apps to function on a Mac.

• 1Password - all the passwords 🤯
• Fantastical - a better calendar (Google, Apple...)
• Magnet - to snap all those pesky windows
• Firefox - secure & private browsing
• Things - the best GTD app there is

Communication

All the communication apps.

• Messages - native app for iMessage
• Airmail - a better email client
• Slack - for pretty much all work related communication
• Goofy - for Facebook Messenger communication
• WhatsApp - for all the WhatsApp communication

Entertainment

• Spotify - for all the listening needs
• Sonos - to control the speakers

Security

• Little Snitch - outgoing connection monitoring and filtering
• GPG Suite - for encrypted communication
• Tunnelbear - for anonymous and secure browsing

Text & Notes

• TextEdit - native text editing application
• TexPad - for anything LaTeX related
• Bear - personal & work related note taking

IDEs

• VSCode - for scripting, development, markdown and tech notes
• Xcode - must have for Swift development (iOS, macOS, Vapor...)

Development

Universal

• Homebrew - a package manager like no other
• iTerm - the one and only terminal app
• oh-my-zsh - command line made even easier/faster
• scm-breeze - source control made fast and easy
• bfg-repo-cleaner - for the ocassional api keys or passwords in git
• GitUp - a simple and fast GUI for Git
• Broot - better directory tree navigation in the command line

Mobile

• TBA -

Frontend

• TBA -

Backend

• DBngin - tool to manage local DBs (MySQL, PostreSQL...)
• TablePlus - tool to connect to local and remote DBs

Debugging

• Proxyman - for all kinds of connection proxying