Christian Heilmann had a post this week around things he always installed when he was setting up a new Mac. Seeing his list made me realize how different my top 10 was so thought I’d pull my own list together.
- Arc - My favorite daily-driver browser, but also install all the others (Chrome, Chrome Canary, Firefox, Edge)
- Volta - Volta is my preferred tool for managing my JavaScript tools (e.g. Node).
- Warp - Terminal alternative. After a long-term use of iTerm2 I’ve been using Warp for about the last 6 months. It has built-in AI and some nice conveniences with completion and keyboard support.
- VSCode (Insiders) - Don’t hate neovim folks ??
- RunJS - Great little JavaScript and TypeScript tool to get instant evaluation. Some people like Quokka, I’m team RunJS.
- Notion - My go-to for note taking, tasks, etc.
- Alfred - Spotlight replacement with the ability to build custom workflows, etc. Productivity booster.
- Dash - Offline docsets for easily searching against docs and jumping straight in. Combined with the Alfred workflow and custom search triggers you can search isolated docs very quickly.
- LICEcap - My favorite tool to capture my screen and save to GIF. Quick, easy to use, and what’s more good output file size which has always been a problem with other tools like this that I’ve tried.
- PostgreSQL / DBeaver - for local db support for side project development.
What does your “first install” toolkit look like?
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1 年Doesn't matter the os but zsh/oh-my-zsh/tmux for me. I'm lost without that combo.