Tools I use
I'm always curious what tools other developers are using, this is my list:
Hardware @office
- Macbook Pro - Fast & reliable
- Apple external keyboard - Fast & reliable
- Razer DeathAdder Chroma - No more RSI complaints
- Steelseries XXL mousepad - Antislip mousepad which holds keyboars as well
- Monitor IIyama 40" inch - Lot of screen real estate for an affordable price
- Secret Labs chair - It's big and heavy, but no more lower back problems
Hardware @home
- Custom build desktop PC - Linux Mint
- Secret Labs chair - Same as at the office, it's that good
- 8BitDo Retro Keyboard - Small mechanical keyboard with two power buttons which I mainly use for copy & pasting code
- Razer Deathadder V2 - No more RSI complaints
- DELL UltraSharp U4323QE - 43" - Lot of screen real estate
IDE's
- Visual Studio Code - My main IDE, mostly for frontend and NodeJS development
- Rider - Jetbrains - My preferred IDE for .NET development
- Datagrip - Jetbrains - Cross-platform tool for relational and NoSQL databases
Visual Studio Code extensions
- Dracula Theme - Lovely dark theme, I'm using the PRO version myself
- Material Icon Theme - Good looking file icons
- EditorConfig - Code formatting 1.0
- Prettier - Code formatting 2.0
- ESLint - Code formatting 3.0
- GitHub Copilot - A rubber duck that talks back
- Hugo Language and Syntax Support - Syntax highlighting and snippets for Hugo websites
- Tailwind CSS IntelliSense - Indispensable when working with Tailwind's utility classes
- Jest - Running Jest tests
Apps
- Spark - Thoughtful email client
- Rise - Calendar app I've been waiting for. Cross-platform, supports gmail and microsoft accounts, slick interface.
- Trello - All my tasks go here in GTD style, preferably all in one board
- Pocket - Great at storing online content I want to remember or read later. The tagging makes enables to find what I'm looking for easily.
- Obsidian - I use this for journaling and also as my second brain
- 1Password - Easy to use and secure password manager
- Cyberduck - Mainly use this as S3 client
- Cyberduck - Free replacement for Microsoft Office, works on all platforms including Linux
Services
- DigitalOcean - My go to cloud provider. Simple and focussed, don't expect 100's of different cloud services here.
- Cloudflare - Hosting this blog
- SendPro (formerly Flowmailer) - European alternative to mailgun
- SslLabs - Test your site's certificate and configuration
- Internet.nl - Dutch variant for checking your site's configuration.
- Rollbar - External error monitor
- GitHub - Version control, container registry and CI/CD with GitHub actions.
NodeJS
- NestJS - Awesome backend framework inspired by Angular
.NET
- OpenIddict - Flexible and versatile OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect stack for .NET