Uses

I have been asked to compile a list of tools and services I use. This is that list. I will try to keep it up to date.

Tools are related to my primary roles:

• individual contributor software developer
• tech lead of a small scrum team

For each tool I have highlighted what for me is the “killer feature”.

Development

• Visual Studio Code - fast startup time and good enough support for many languages
• Vim emulation for Visual Studio Code - learn once, use everywhere

Terminal

• jq - instead of writing a script to parse JSON, I can just use jq
• tig - quickly see git changes and history
• lazydocker - visualize everything happening in Docker in a single screen

Productivity

• Raycast - quick access to meeting links no matter if they are in Google Calendar, Zoom or Teams
• yabai - reduces time spent jumping between windows
• Things - my primary capture system

Knowledge Management

• Obsidian - creating notes from courses, books and saving interesting articles
• Excalidraw - visually explaining things while facilitating and brainstorming solutions
• Instapaper - reading saved articles on a Kindle
• Typst - simple way to produce beautiful document

Artificial Intelligence

• Llama.3.1 8B running with Ollama and Enchanted as UI
• Github Copilot - writing boilerplate code faster, also it is integrated into development environment and isn’t causing context switching