Uses

Below is a list of tools and environments that I use in my daily work as a software developer, lecturer and technical writer.

Inspired by Wes Bos' Awesome Uses page.

CodeEditors

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition

Jetbrains has always produced amazing IDEs. I use the Ultimate Edition for full stack development at Lindy. It is a paid product but well worth it.

Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

Became my main code editor sometime in mid 2018 taking over from Webstorm. It feels lightweight, is free, and unlimited extensions are available.

Webstorm

Webstorm is an excellent IDE. I very reluctantly moved over to VSCode and still keep it around and use on a few select projects just because it is so great.

Android Studio

Built by the same folks that brought you Webstorm and many other amazing IDEs.

Xcode

Don't use this so much as an editor but rather use many of the tools that are available with Xcode. Also needed for generating iOS apps from React Native.

EditorConfigurations

Emmet

An amazing time saving plugin for generating code snippets for HTML and CSS. Available for most IDEs.

Prettier

Alright, some controversy exist over this, but I have no problem with prettier formatting my code for me after I set up the rules that I like.

ESLint

Sometimes ESLint and prettier gets into a fight but both are useful so its worth making them work together.

Terminals

Zsh

Adopted this after macOS did. Spent years on Bash. There are a few features of Zsh that I like but so far no impactful difference.

Oh My Zsh

Pretty decent tool for configuring and managing the Zsh terminal. I may have used less than 1% of the goodies that it offers so far but I'm happy with it.

ProductivityTools

Things

Amazing what a simple todo list can do.

Things

Obsidian

Super extendable and feature rich text editor. For all my non-code writing.