Software

Tools used

My preference is for FOSS software and no electron apps but beggars can’t be choosers…

Using the macOS Dock

My MacOS Dock

Many years ive attempted to have a “clean” dock but it never works. I also don’t autohide my dock since i just find it to be more cumbersome to summon it from under the screen…its small enough that the screen real estate it takes is negligible

Programming Tools

  • JetBrains IDE’s - PyCharm, IntelliJ, RustRover
  • Nova Text Editor - Probably one of the better text editors for Mac and is one of the factors that I think it will be really hard for me to switch to Linux. I make my website on this
  • Fork (Git client) - Im allergic to the git cli so mostly everything git related is done through here
  • iTerm2 Terminal - mostly got it because the current beta has a seperate auto light / dark theme selector
  • Friendly Interactive Shell (fish) - autocompletion feature is killer
  • Hugo

Visual Tools

  • darktable - It is harder than Adobe Lightroom, slower than Adobe Lightroom, but i still keep coming back
  • RawTherapee - This is a more “lightroom-based” photo manipulator, where everything has simple dials
  • Affinity Photo - My brain is photoshop-poisoned so i use the best photoshop clone there is
  • Blender for 3D modeling and renders
  • DaVinky Resolve - It’s not Premiere
  • PureRef - Extremely simple reference collages and extremely fast

Audio Tools

Utilities