My Essential Software
List of my essential software and services at the moment.
On a laptop (MacBook Pro, pre-M generation):
- JetBrains IDEs: PyCharm and GoLand
- Firefox (because of Containers for work accounts) and Safari (energy efficient)
- MailMate - outstanding mail agent that keeps me sane
- MS Teams - team collaboration (quite buggy)
- MS Outlook - to accept office invites (mail is handled by MailMate)
- Vorta and Borg Backup - incremental backups of important files
- Typora - Markdown editor in which I'm typing this blog post.
- Apple Notes - gets the job done and surprisingly lean
- Monosnap - making screenshots and quickly annotating them
- Anki Desktop - to manage my collections of flash cards for learning
- iTerm2 - terminal
Mobile (Pixel 3a, Android):
- Firefox (because runs uBlock)
- AnkiDroid - flash cards client for Anki. This where I learn German vocabulary
- CoolReader - for reading books in epub and fb2
- Telegram and WhatsApp - primary chats
CLI (shared across systems via dotfiles):
- vim - lightweight editing
- Emacs - just for the org-mode (timesheets)
- zsh - just a shell that I'm used to
- tmux - to keep things running and have multiple tabs in the terminal
On a server:
- Jupyter Notebook - to play with ideas, data and charts
- PyJournal - web app to extend my brain when working with multiple projects
- Wireguard - private VPN (mobile and laptop are in that network)
Services:
- Hetzner - dedicated server for apps, VPN gateway and encrypted off-site backups
- Integromat - automation service used for tracking interesting (for me) tweets and posting them to my Telegram channel
- Spotify and Netflix
- DigiCal - because beautiful calendars
- AWS - S3, Route 53 and CloudFront to host this blog
iPad:
- Adobe Draw - for sketches (discontinued)
- GoodReader - to read and annotate PDFs
Published: December 12, 2021.
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