I change up things fairy often, so this page will serve as a living document. Softwares are changing fast, if you know anything works better for you please let me know as well.
Hardwares
- Monitor: Dell 4k P2715Q. I am pretty happy with this screen, as it does not contains a speaker, I connect it to Bose SoundLink Mini II.
- Speaker: Bose SoundLink Mini II for desktop, an awesome speaker both at home or camp outside; and 2 x Sonos Play 3 White mounted at wall for casual music.
- Headphone: Bose QuietComfort 35, it is my most used headphone yet, wireless, long battery life, and good noise cancellation. The only downside is that it is a bit hot in Singapore.
- Laptop: Macbook Pro 15 inch Mid 2015. It is a bit old but I feel it can get work done, especially it works with 4k monitor without any problem. Personally I don’t like USB-C used in later MBPs.
- Dock: OWC Thunderbolt 2 dock. With this dock, I just need to connect a thunderbolt cable to my laptop, and the dock connect with Gigabit Ethernet, my keyboard, Wacom Intuos and sometimes my SD cards. But it is kind of disappointing.
- Keyboard: I use Filco Ninja Majestouch 2 with red switch at home and Poker II with red switch at work.
- Mouse: Logitech Anywhere MX 2. Wireless, rechargeable with ultra long battery, it is the mouse I can trust with, and easy to carry.
- Drawing Tablet: Wacom Intuos Medium size, I use it for post processing my DSLR photos.
- Laptop Stand: Rain mStand. This stand sits besides my 4k monitor.
- Monitor Stand: iQunix Spider. I put my 4k monitor and Bose SoundLink Mini on top of it, keyboard and Wacom Intuos beneath it.
- Chair: Red Herman Miller Sayl, it is well designed, very functional and very comfortable.
- Desk: IKEA LILVER with bamboo table top.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS): Synology DS916+ with 4 x WD Red 4TB NAS Hard Drive and RAID6 configurations. I was using Synology DS251j before this.
Editor & Terminal
- Code Editor: Visual Studio Code is my current editor which I switched in 2017 after a few years use of Atom.
- Terminal: Hyper, previously I use iTerm2.
- Shell: oh-my-zsh.
- Font: Operator Mono, combined with Fira Code’s ligatures. I am using it for both editor and terminal.
- You can see most of my config files (VS Code settings, .zshrc, .hyper.js) over at my Dot Files repo.
Desktop Apps
- Writing: iA Writer: for iOS and macOS for writing, I love the font they were using called Nitti. Occasionally I also use Hemingway Editor to do some final check before publishing.
- Password management: 1Password.
- GTD: Things App for both iOS and macOS.
- Workflows: Alfred for daily tasks and search with some custom workflows.
- Design: When I comes to digital design(mostly mobile apps), I work in Sketch, Principle and Framer.
- Dealing with images: I use ImageOptim to reduce image file sizes, SVGO to optimise SVG size, and ImageMagick to convert format and scale images.
- Cloud Storage: I use Dropbox mostly, Google Drive for shared documentations, and CloudApp to share screenshots.
- Keep Mac awake: Amphetamine.
- Mac window manager: Magnet.
- Colour picker: Sip.
- Screencasts: I use ScreenFlow to record and edit my screencasts.
- Music: I use Sonos for both iOS and macOS to control music at home, and iTunes for Apple Music.
- Mail client: Spark, previously I used to use Newton and I still prefer it if not the price.
- Video player: mpv, it is the best video player I have ever used.
- System status: I use iStat Menus all the time and I can’t live without it.
- Manage APIs: Paw.
- Screenshot annotation: Skitch, it is not maintained but there is no better alternative that works as simple as Skitch.
Chrome Extensions
There are a lot of Chrome Extensions but I will just share the ones I as as a programmer.
- Grammarly: as I am not a native English speaker, this extension help me to correct some gramma issues when I comment on GitHub.
- Octolinker: this extension link to the GitHub repo of references directly from
package.jsonin GitHub. - Octotree: to view code tree for GitHub.
- Refined GitHub：Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features.
- 掘金: this extension allow me to view latest GitHub trending projects, ProductHunt, Dribbble and a lot more directly in Chrome new tab.
This Website
This website is developed using GatsbyJS, hosted on Netlify. You can also check source code here.
The fonts used in the site are Futura PT from ParaType and Plex Serif and Plex Mono from IBM.