My Current Dev Machine and Setup

• My main machine is a late 2024 14-inch Macbook Pro with 48 GB memory. I absolutely love it and I don’t think I can get back to less than 48 GB memory at this point.
• With this being the typical usage while coding in the front-end, I don’t think I want to go back 🥲
• I use this Flexispot Standing Desk Converter as my back hurts if I sit down too much.
• I absolutely love this ULTi Anti Fatigue Mat when standing up.
• Much of the coding is done while wearing these Bose Quietcomfort Headphones on this Spotify playlist.
• I also have a pair of Jabra Elite 75t wireless earbuds, as going to the gym with those headphones is pretty nasty 🤢.
• For the last 6 years or so, I’ve bought and re-bought the Logitech G502 mouse as it fits my mouse grip well, and I am very comfortable with my Ducky One2 keyboard with red switches, thought I put noise suppressors on to not disturb the people around me 😷.

OS X Software

• Blogging. I primarily start rambling on and letting a transcription app create the initial draft of text. Sometimes, I pass it through an LLM to clean up the grammatical and some typo errors, if ever. And then, I do my editing afterwards. I find the LLM output to be too... formal.
  • 🤫 MurmurType (https://www.murmurtype.me/) for transcription.
• Editors. Vim and Cursor with Vim keybindings. I used Vim for 10 years, and I still use it too, but Cursor code generation (within reason, of course) is just too fast.
  • I frequently run terminal Vim on Tmux and Iterm. While I can move around in other people’s editor config decently (especially since almost all engineers are on VS Code or Cursor nowadays), Vim is still my first love when it comes to IDES. I did use Sublime Text before Vim though.
  • My dotfiles (need to be updated) are here.

• OS X Tools.

  • 🌞 Raycast (http://raycast.com/) as my Spotlight (Cmd-Space) replacement. I use Alfred before, but I find that Raycast has all features that I used there anyway, so I switched.

    • I especially love Quicklinks, I have most of my favorite URLs bound to Cmd-Shift-1 all the way to Cmd-Shift-0.

  • 🌚 Nightfall (https://github.com/r-thomson/Nightfall) to set Dark Mode on the system level. Keyboard bound to Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-D.

  • 🪟 Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/) as a Window manager.

  • 🏀 Shottr (https://shottr.cc/) as my Screenshot tool of choice. Cmd-Shift-4 is bound to Capture Area Screenshot and Cmd-Shift-5 is bound to Recognize Text/OCR.

  • 🥶 Freedom (https://freedom.to/) to block Facebook and Tiktok and those sites for 23 hours a day.

  • 🧊 Ice (https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice) to control what gets put on the menu bar.

  • 🐢 Atuin (https://atuin.sh/) for an insane shell history.

  • Tabset (https://github.com/jonathaneunice/iterm2-tab-set) to organise my iTerm windows.

    

  • zsh-autosuggestions (https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) to save time when commands get forgotten.

• Chrome Extensions.
  • 🏃🏾 Vimium because of the aforementioned Vim sickness lol.
  • 🚫 Saner Social Media is pretty lifechanging too.
  • 💾 Save to Notion to, well, save to Notion lol. I used OneTab in the past and lost it when my last machine was wiped.
  • 👮🏾 FakeFiller for just filling in forms for local development.
  • 📷 Screenity is a Loom alternative for recording videos.
• Language Learning.
  • 🦉 Duolingo (My profile) to learn Spanish 🇪🇸 🇲🇽. Mi meta es aprender suficiente español para poder viajar por los países hispanohablantes.
  • 🧑🏾‍🎓 I am also talking formal classes at Instituto Cervantes. I’m currently at A1, going to A2 level. My ultimate goal is to get to C1 or at least somewhere close.
  • 🍓 I use Rememberry to add a fast way to translate from English to Spanish in my right click menu in Chrome.
  • https://www.raycast.com/gebeto/translate for a quick Google Translate from Cmd-Space.
• Raycast setup.
  • https://www.raycast.com/xeric/currency-exchange to save a few clicks.
• Websites I use as a software engineer.
  • https://excalidraw.com/ is the whiteboard I use for quick demos especially in calls.
  • https://screenshot.rocks/app# to make my screenshots look better.
  • https://sankeymatic.com/ helps for diagram building.
  • https://readme.so/editor is pretty good for writing a README.
  • https://www.brainboard.co/: Used to show cloud diagrams.
  • https://deepwiki.com/: For learning the different repos.

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