My Setup

Software

Mac Apps

• Contexts - a much better app switcher for macOS. Easily my most indispensable Mac app.
• Moom - a window manager with excellent keyboard shortcut support.
• Amethyst - a sleek tiling window manager inspired by xmonad.
• Alfred - a much faster Spotlight replacement.
• Mimestream - a stellar email client with deep Gmail integration.
• Keyboard Maestro - a swiss army knife for keyboard-driven automation.
• BetterTouchTool - a swiss army knife for trackpad- and mouse-driven automation.
• AirBuddy - a much better Bluetooth device manager, especially for AirPods, and Magic Handoff to use the same bluetooth keyboard/mouse with multiple Macs.
• Soulver - a hybrid text editor and calculation engine. Much more frictionless and intuitive than spreadsheets for many calculations.
• CleanShot - a much more powerful screenshot and screen recording tool.
• IINA - a highly feature-rich media player for playing videos.
• NetNewsWire - a simple, fast, open-source RSS reader.
• DaisyDisk - a playful UI for analyzing storage space.

Chrome Extensions

• Vimium - keyboard-driven web browsing in Chrome.
• WhatFont - the best way to discover new fonts.
• Library Extension - easily saves me hundreds of dollars per year.
• Twemex - surface more interesting content from Twitter.
• Octotree - a very helpful set of feature enhancements to the GitHub web app.
• VisBug - a powerful set of design tools to dynamically tinker with any web page.

Software Engineering Tools

• vim - the editor I keep coming back to.
• fish shell - a command line shell for the 21st century.
• iTerm 2 - much more features than the default Terminal app.
• Fork - the simplest Git GUI.
• Dash - the fastest and most comprehensive local documentation viewer.
• Postico - a fully Mac-native Postgres GUI.
• Homebrew - straightforward macOS package manager.