Like any craftsman, I use many tools. Here are some that I use regularly.
Google Chrome
I’ve used these browsers roughly in this order.
I use Google Chrome primarily because it’s stable. I can count on two hands how many times Google Chrome has crashed while using it. In every scenario, it was caused by catastrophic events like disk failures.
I use a lot of extensions that make my life easier in Google Chrome.
Here they are.
- Joplin Web Clipper - Clipping articles I don’t want to lose if a website goes down.
- RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - I ♥️ RSS. We need more Aaron Swartz and less Jeff Bezos.
- Bitwarden - Free Password Manager - I use Bitwarden for password management.
- Blank New Tab Page - I like seeing nothing before I start working. I know what I want to do, don’t try to tell me, Google.
- Adblock Plus - free ad blocker - Nobody owns my eyeballs.
- uBlock Origin - What’s better than one adblocker? Two ad blockers.
- Anti Adblock Detector - I like wack-a-mole.
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay (Reloaded) - Auto playing videos were a bane of my existence.
- EditThisCookie - Cookie abuse.
- Disable Extensions Temporarily - I used this once, I recommend it if your extensions have gone haywire.
- Download table as CSV - Comes in handy from time to time.
- Don’t Fuck With Paste - Self-explanatory.
- F.B.(FluffBusting)Purity - I hate Facebook, but I love friends.
- Enhanced Image Viewer - I wish people would stop putting garbage images on the Internet. ( Disabled )
- GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture - A picture is worth a thousand words.
- Honey - I wish everyone would stop trying to rip me off.
- Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker - No, I won’t pay three times more for fancy pool accessories during a pandemic.
- Make Medium Readable Again - I hate medium. It sometimes has valuable content locked up behind garbage, detritus, and self-loathing.
- React Developer Tools - I see dead code.
- Incognito This Tab for Google Chrome™ - I like shortcuts.
- Personal Blocklist(not by Google) - I hate medium.
- Open Tabs Next to Current - Why isn’t this the default?
- Requestly: Redirect Url, Modify Headers etc - I like redirects & stuff.
- SEO Minion - I like clicks. Not the pointing device kind.
- Text Transform - More than meets the eye.
- Tab Modifier - I like sanity.
- Tab Suspender - I like CPU cycles.
- Copy as Markdown - I dislike pointing device clicks & I like Markdown.
- Timestamper - I use dates often enough to warrant time savings.
- Switchmarks - I like bookmark bars, but not ones filled with too many icons.
- DomListener - A lot of stuff happens to the DOM; this helps me solve DOM mysteries.
- Calm Twitter - I access Twitter for trends and other purposes but dislike anxiety.
- LinkOff - Ditto for LinkedIn
- ICS to GCal - Too many clicks for calendar tricks
Experimenting
- Bridgy - I’m working on joining the indy web.
macOS
I use macOS as my primary computing platform.
I use it for the following reasons.
- It works more often than Microsoft Windows or Linux-based computers.
- It’s built to last.
- It’s Unix under the hood.
- The user interface is consistent and pleasing to the eye.
- It’s simple and productive.
Alfred
I use Alfred and shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
I used Automator for a while, but Alfred is superior.
I use it for the following reasons.
- It’s user friendly
- It’s incredibly flexible.
- It works like Spotlight but with a lot more options.
- I dislike clicking a lot to get things done.
I hope you find some of these tools helpful.
Have a great day! 🤙
iTerm2
I use iTerm2 instead of the default macOS terminal. I use a few interesting features.
Command Line
I live on the command line.
A few shell enhancement tools.
- oh-my-bash - Primary use, themes
- fig - Auto-completion blesses my mind with reminders
Indispensible CLI Programs
You’ll pry these from my cold dead meatsticks.
- find - Where did I put that file again?
- grep - Unlock the mysteries of file contents
- jq - Json parsing FTW
- shellcheck - A clean shell script is a happy shell script
- … and hundreds more
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