Uses

Last updated August 8, 2023

Here’s a list of the hardware and software tools I use regularly. The list is not complete, but it includes the things that contribute the most to my workflows. This page is inspired by uses.tech.

Hardware

💻 MacBook Pro 14-inch, 2023 with Apple M2 Pro
🖥 Apple Studio Display 27-inch
⌨️ Apple Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad
🎧 Sony MDR7506 Headphones
🎧 Apple AirPods Pro
🪑 Herman Miller Sayl Chair

Software

Safari is my main browser. I use Firefox for client side web development and Brave when a site requires Chrome.

1Password
CleanShot X
Itsycal
Little Snitch Mini
NetNewsWire
Obsidian
Pastebot
Sketch
Things

Development

Terminal
I use iTerm and my default shell is zsh and my prompt is customized using Starship.

My dotfiles have a bunch of alises and do many nice things that make my life easier.

Apps
Core Data Lab
DevCleaner
OrbStack
Insomnia
Postgres.app
PyCharm
Visual Studio Code
Xcode

Visual Studio Code
My current favorite font is Iosevka with ligatures enabled, my theme is Eva Theme and the file icons are from Material Icon Theme.

Extensions
Code Spell Checker (English and Spanish)
DevContainers
Django
djlint
Docker
Error Lens
ESLint
Even Better TOML
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Pull Requests and Issues
GitLens
Go
isort
Markdown Preview Mermaid Support
markdownlint
Open in Application
Paste JSON as Code
Prettier
Prettier SQL VSCode
Pylance
Python
Rainbow CSV
ShellCheck
sort-imports
Tailwind CSS IntelliSense
Todo Tree
XML Tools

PyCharm
This is my current favorite development environment for Python.

AppSec

These are some of the tools I use more often when doing any kind of cybersecurity assessment.

amass
gobuster
masscan
nmap
theHarvester
ZAP