Uses

Tools I use for software development and technical writing.

Inspired by Wes Bos' Awesome Uses page.

Code

Editors

IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition

Full stack development IDE from JetBrains.

Cursor

Main code editor. AI features and productivity focus are excellent.

Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

Use occasionally. Cursor has largely replaced it for daily work.

Webstorm

Excellent IDE. Keep it around for select projects.

Android Studio

From the same folks that built Webstorm.

Xcode

For iOS development tools and React Native builds.

Editor

Configurations

Emmet

Code snippets for HTML and CSS. Available for most IDEs.

Prettier

Code formatter. Works well once configured.

ESLint

Works alongside Prettier for code quality.

Terminals

Zsh

Default shell after macOS switched. Good features.

Oh My Zsh

Configuration and management for Zsh terminal.

Warp

Modern terminal with AI features.

Productivity

Tools

Things

Simple, effective todo list.

Linear

Issue tracking and project management.

Obsidian

For all non-code writing.