Building, boosting, and maybe blanking out

My toolbox for software, productivity, and (the occasional) mental escape.

Laptop

• I am currently using M1 Macbook Pro 2020 - 16GB - 512GB SSD. Purchased it in late 2020 December.

 Gaming PC

• OS: Windows 11 Pro
• Processor: Intel Core i7-12700K
• RAM: 32 GB DDR5
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060Ti
• SSD: 1TB
• DDR5 Gigabyte Motherboard

Displays

• 27-inch Samsung Gaming Monitor @240HZ

Keyboard and Mouse

• Keyboard: I use a  Keychron K2-V2 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard with Blue switches ⌨️
• Mouse: I use  Razer Viper Mini for gaming.  Logitech Signature M650. It’s doing the job for now. I use it while using Mac. 
• Previously I had Lenovo Legion Mouse, It stopped working after 6-7 months. 

Headset And Microphone

• Microphone: SoloCast – USB Gaming Microphone
• Airpods ProFirst Gen
• 1MORE Piston Fit Wired in Ear Earphone

Smartphone

• iPhone 13 (Primary)
• OnePlus 7T (Secondary)

Smartwatch

• Apple Watch Series 7

Editor

• Visual Studio Code is my current code editor.
• I also use  Neovim time to time.
• Trying out Zed these days.

Terminal

• I use the iTerm 2 terminal emulator with Starship prompt
• Zsh is my default shell.

Software (Desktop Apps, CLI tools and Others)

• fzf: an awesome fuzzy finder written in Go!
• ripgrep: better replacement for grep. Also written in Rust.
• bat: A better version of cat
• zoxide: A great tool for jumping between multiple directories.
• exa – a modern (?) replacement for ls. It’s been pretty good so far
• Delta (for showing pretty diffs in terminal)
• pyenv, goenv, nvm: for managing multiple versions of python, go, and node respectively.
• rectangle: for organizing windows. Pretty sleek since I just need to press ⌘⌃← to move current window to the left, etc.
• BeeKeeper Studio: A good looking SQL GUI client for Postgres, SQLite and MySQL.
• Amphetamine: I have been using it from past 3 years. It helps keep my Mac awake. 
• MQTTX: GUI MQTT Client Toolbox. Works really great.
• Postman App and Thunder Client (VSCode Extension)for API testing purpose. 
• grpcurl: Like cURL, but for gRPC
• RedisInsight:  GUI for redis client. Helps visually browse and interact with Redis data.
• Docker: Container management.
• HashiCorp Nomad:  Simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator for managing containers. Kind of an alternative to Kubernetes.
• ngrok - A quick way to setup reverse shells and test complex environments locally.

Hosting and Services

• NameCheap - Domain Provider
• Github - Software Repository hosting
• Vercel - I am hosting this site here
• AWS - Cloud services
• Railway - Faster deploy and prototyping

 Browsers 

• I use Google Chrome as my main browser. And brave as secondary.
  • For chrome extensions I use:

    • uBlock Origin

    • Grammarly

    • Octotree – useful when browsing files in GitHub repositories

    • OneTab

    • JSON formatter

    • React Dev Tools

    • Save to Pocket

    • UpNote Web Clipper

Note Taking App

• Upnote: I made a one-time purchase for upnote a long time back. I have been liking it so far.
• Sometimes I use Google Keep and Apple Notes.

Desk and Chair

• IKEA Thyge height adjustable desk
• I purchased the chair from a local store.

Other Tech

• Unigen Magsafe Charge Station

• Amazon Echo Dot 4th Gen

I will update the post, If something new adds up to my list.