If you are wondering what I use for X, Y, or Z, the resource is probably below. Trying to keep this updated.

Enjoy!

On the daily

I use Alfred for opening apps and docs for now…

I have a lot of bash aliases for doing things and workflows. Examples:

• I’ve set my terminal to open on starting my computer. I type asdf and hit enter and all the apps I need for the day open up (VSCode, Asana, Teams, Arc, etc.)… the idea was to be able to do that with one hand and drink coffee with the other )
• I’ve shortened common git commands ( status, add, commit, etc) and actions (checking out merge requests, merging, pushing, fetching, etc.) so that I have some quick methods to do a lot of that. 
• I’ve got those and more listed here if anyone is interested.

I use Clipy for clipboard management, Ice for menu bar management, and Rectangle for windows management. 

For local development, Herd for managing sites, TablePlus and DBngin for databases, and Transmit for SFTP (honestly, I would try to go Linux if it weren’t for Transmit, it’s the only app that has tied me to MacOS that I have a really hard time letting go of). I’ve started using Ghosty for my terminal and have used Spaceship for years and some other plugins installed for autocomplete and syntax highlighting.

Also a big fan of an app called Boop, which I mostly use for check out serialized data, hashing, and encoding and decoding. Homebrew for managing applications as much as I can.

Obsidian for notes and tracking my daily work and braindumping. I use their sync service, can’t be losing these notes!

For AI: I use plenty, but I pay for Github CoPilot (different than Microsoft’s CoPilot) for my personal use. It’s affordable, and has been a massive productivity boost for me coding. I’m starting to use the CLI agent to write tests, review code, and help manage personal projects and learning, for example, this My Reads WP plugin, which you can see in use here.

Hosting and domain registry

Cloudflare for domains.

This site is hosted on Pantheon, they are awesome, and I always recommend them.

If I’m doing a small side project:

• I try to make it “static” first, and will host that for free on Netlify.
• If I need to host something with a DB, I’ll probably do that on Cloudways.

Web and software dev

This site and most of my work is built with WordPress. It’s awesome, flexible, open source, and is a great community.

Laravel is also amazing, and I use it for some projects where WordPress isn’t a good fit.

Hardware

…coming soon