Saurabh 😎

My Setup

Hardware

  • 14" MacBook Pro (10-core M1 Pro, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD)
    16" MacBook Pro (6-core Intel i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD)
  • Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 49"
    Apple Studio Display
    Dell UltraSharp U3818DW
  • Apple Magic Keyboard & Logitech MX Master 3S Apple Magic Mouse 2
  • iPhone 13 Pro
  • AirPods Max

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.
  • Alfred - a much faster Spotlight replacement.
  • Keyboard Maestro - a swiss army knife for keyboard-driven automation.
  • Homerow - system-wide keyboard navigation using vim-like shortcuts.
  • 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.
  • rcmd - an easy way to assign keyboard shortcuts for rapidly switching between apps.
  • 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.
  • Maestral - a much leaner and open-source Dropbox client.
  • Smart Scroll - a very useful utility to configure scrolling behavior, such as holding down a modifier key while scrolling to scroll much faster.
  • Keyboard Scroller - system-wide shortcuts for keyboard scrolling.
  • WhichSpace - a surprisingly helpful menu bar app which displays the active space number.

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.