Here's what I'm using these days:

Developer Life

Editor + Terminal + Coding

• VS Code
• Synthwave theme
• Hyper or iTerm depending on the day
• macOS
• My daily browser is Firefox because its super rad and for debugging I use Firefox Developer Edition or Chrome
• Font of choice for coding: Dank Mono
• CMS of choice: Statamic (or Craft CMS when the build is big and super complex and/or needs a database)
• CSS of choice: Tailwind CSS
• Vue.js or Nuxt.js or Gridsome (aka Vue across the board)

Servers and stuff

• I try to avoid server management as much as I can because it makes my blood boil.
• For WordPress I've loved Flywheel
• For cheap shared hosting and domains with free privacy I've used DreamHost for years without complaint
• For Statamic and sites were continuous deployment is helpful, Ploi is my goto deployment platform (usually on a DigitalOcean server because they are sooo good)
• Cloudinary and Imagekit are both amazing for making images and media handling easier and better. because #perfmatters

The Office

Apps I couldnt live without

• 1Password is the greatest thing since melted butter.
• ProtonVPN keeps my internet traffic secure, which is super important when on public wifi.
• For dev projects Basecamp Personal is the coolest thing ever

Freelancing

• Harvest for time tracking
• Dropbox makes cloud storge easy
• Woven is amazing for scheduling meetings. I can just generate a link for folks to grab time off my calendar RIP Woven...
• I organize nearly everything on kanbans via Trello but am worried their Atlassian overlords will kill it. Bigger things go into Basecamp Personal JK, since 2020 I moved on from Trello and on to Notion (it has a high learning curve but is oh so powerful)

Desktop Setup

• MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014) - 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 - 16GB DDR3 RAM - 500GB SSD HD
• My desk is the Uplift with white legs
• My mech keyboard that I love is a Keychron 2
• My laptop is perfectly positioned via the iLevel Rain Design Stand

Desktop Apps

• For quick screenshots and videos I use CloudApp
• I use the hand mirror app to make sure I'm not totally hideous when I show up at video meetings
• Sipp.app is an amazing little app for grabbing and storing color palettes
• CopyClip is a life saver because it stores the gazillion copies that I do. It will change your workflow.
• Magnet is how I manage all my windows

Photography

Mobile Photos

• Currently I do a lot of mobile photography with my Moment gear
• Moment Anamorphic Lense
• Moment Wide Angle Lense
• Moment Telephoto Lense
• Moment Fisheye Lense

Non Mobile Photography

• I recently converted to Fujifilm after 10+ years of using Nikon and their fine line of full frame DSLRs. For more about my photography, check out the bio on my portfolio website.

Financials

Yes I'm a huge financial/budget nerd. I want to create a series of blogs about investing, personal finance and more! So stay tuned for more. For now, check out the blog I wrote about our budget. (tl;dr I use Wealthfront to automate our savings)

Stock Trading

• Occasional stock trades via Robinhood
• Long term savings and investing done via the amazing WealthFront (use this link to get money managed for free
• Most of my other investments are held by Fidelity