Uses

I try to be minimalist and keep it simple with the tools I use.

Gear

• Apple Macbook Pro 16"
• Apple iPad as a 2nd monitor
• Apple Magic Mouse 2
• Apple iPhone 13
• Apple Airpods Pro: active noise reduction is a must on planes and loudly places where I want to work
• Hard drive for backups
• Ringke Folding Stand 2: laptop stand and mouse pad
• Rootstand knockoff
• Satechi Slim X1 keyboard

My tech pouch is AER Slim Pouch XPac. Lightweight and organized, it's now the perfect pouch to carry my tech gear. Here what I have inside:

• Anker Nano Pro to fast-charge my iPhone
• Anker 717 USB-C 140W Charger to charge my Macbook Pro 16"
• Anker 621 Power Bank as a small backup power bank
• Apple Earpods as backup earphones
• Airpods cleaner kit to clean my Airpods Pro
• 100W 2m USB-C retractable cable + ligthning <-> USB-C adapter to charge my Macbook Pro 16"
• 100W 1m USB-C retractable cable to charge my iPhone, iPad and AirPods Pro
• USB adapters: USB-C female to USB-A male, USB-C female to Apple Lightning male, Apple Lightning female to USB-C male, USB-C female to Micro-USB male, USB-C female to USB-C female
• A paper clip in case I would need to remove the SIM of my iPhone
• Polishing cloth to clean screens and glasses
• A big polishing cloth to protect the screen of my Macbook Pro from the keyboard

Apps

Browsers

• Ungoogled Chromium with Chromium Web Store to be able to use Chrome extensions

Password

• Bitwarden
• 2FAS Auth for two-factor authentication on my iPhone
• KeepassX for clients account

Management (calendar, notes, todo)

• Apple Notes and Apple Freeform for personal notes
• "TODO" note in Apple Notes 🗿
• Apple reminders for things to do with a fixed deadline (date)
• Plain text files synchronized in cloud services (iCloud, Google Drive) and updated using iA Writer for writings
• Google Calendar
• Google Sheets
• Table Tool to quickly edit CSV files

Read

• NetNewsWire for blog and Youtube channel RSS
• Apple Books

Mac tools

• DeskPad to have a virtual monitor for screen sharing
• EasyFind like Spotlight for experts
• Espanso text expander
• FlashSpace, a blazingly-fast virtual workspace manager
• Flycut, simple clipboard manager for developers
• Hand Mirror to check my face before a video meeting
• Ice menu bar manager
• Marta file manager
• MeetingBar, calendar in the menu bar
• OpenInTerminal to open the current directory in Terminal from Finder
• PDF Gear
• qlmarkdown and quicklook-csv for quick views of files in finder
• Rectangle to move and resize windows in macOS using keyboard

Dev

• Cyberduck / Transmit for FTP / Backblaze / Amazon S3 navigation
• DB Browser for SQLite
• DBNgin to manage local databases
• DevHub
• Docker
• Ghostty terminal
• MongoDB Compass
• Postico 2 for PostgreSQL
• RapidAPI for HTTP requests
• Sequel Ace to manage MySQL databases
• Visual Studio Code with extensions and Sublime Text

Design

• Inkscape for vector files

Communication

• Gmail
• Telegram for groups and bots

Misc

• Chat GPT
• LanguageTool
• TunnelBear or ProtonVPN if I need a VPN
• VLC for multimedia player

... and more

CLI

I use a lot of CLI tools.

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