My Uses page

Hardware

• 💻 Macbook Air M1 8GB. 20+ years using Mac and macOS. It's enough for my Python/Django development.
• 🖥️ External LG UltraWide LG 29" 29WK600-W. Not a great one but it works as a wide second screen.
• ⌨️ Macbook's keyboard. No external one.
• 🐭 No mouse. Macbook touchpad as my main pointer tool - I used to have a Logitech one. I even tried the vertical one but it didn't work.
• 📱 iPhone 13 Pro.
• I also have an old Macbook Pro 2010 laying around that serves a Plex server for media content and an eventual study notebook for my bass practicing.

Software

• As I mentioned, I use macOS for my O.S.
• Raycast as my launcher. I cannot stress enough how this tool is a game changer for macOS. I'll right a separate post on it.
• Jetbrains Tools as main to-go development tools. I love the productivity that it brings. Since on my side projects I need to develop in PHP, JS, Java and Python, I pay for the "All Products Pack". It worth every penny.
• Arc as my main browser. It used to be Firefox. But once you go Arc, you never go back.
• Spark Mail is my mail app. I have 2 main mail accounts and I like to keep things simple and have all my mail in one place. Apple Mail is so dated that I can't even look at it.
• UpNote is where most of my life is organized. I don't really like Apple's Notes app so I tried to find something that was simple and reliable. It lacks E2E encryption but I do not keep sensitive stuff on there.
• 1Password as my password manager. I pay for the family plan and it's a nice tool. I was disappointed when they moved to a non-native interface. And I also abandoned the browser extension since it's too intrusive and it's buggy as hell.
• Shottr it's a CleanShot X alternative. It has almost all the same functionality but it costs a lot less.
• iTerm as my terminal app. Willing to switch to Alacrity for simplicity.
• oh my zsh as my terminal prompt.
• I use Alt Tab as macOS alt-tab replacement. Mainly because macOS native alt-tab doesn't bring hidden/minimized windows to front. Raycast's application hotkey's are becoming my main app switcher. Just need to make my brain feel natural with that.
• I migrated from Bartender 5 to Ice after the not-nice movement when they sold the company. I could not rely on that anymore.

Services

• Fastmail is my primary email provider. I migrated from Gmail 2 years ago and I don't have any regrets.
• Gitlab as my code repository and CI/CD. I use their free tier and I have my runners on Linode VPSs.
• Linode is where I host everything for my side projects.
• Cloudflare for domain names registration. I used to use Namecheap but I'm migrating off of them since I heard a lot of bad stuff coming from them.
• RegistroBR for domain names registration in Brazil since they're the official place where you can register .com.br tld's.