Our Daily Drivers: The Tools We Use

2024! This week, we're sharing the various tools we use day-to-day in our work and side projects. Let us know if you have any favorites on Twitter @buildandlearn_

Building

• CJ: working on a side project, https://buckets.cjav.dev
• Colin: working on some fun docs projects at work

Learning: Sharing Our Tools in 2024

Tools by Category

• Terminal
• Editor
• API tools/clients
• Content Creation/Editing
• Mac Helper Apps
• Notes
• Calendar
• Email

CJ's Toolkit

• Warp terminal 
• ohmyzsh with my own theme which is based on Sarah Drasner’s night owl
• Raycast
• neovim
  • fzf and telescope
  • tpope: vim-rails, vim-commentary, vim-fugitive
  • vim-test
  • ale - linting
  • AI: copilot + butterfish
• Skitch for screenshot annotations
• Postman (Used to use Insomnia a lot, but many companies have Postman collections so that’s easy to drop in)
• Descript for screen recordings
• Tuple for pairing

Colin's Toolkit

• iTerm2 as my main terminal
• ohmyzsh with Dracula Theme
• VSCode as a daily driver for code and markdown (also Dracula themed)
• RapidAPI client (formerly Paw)
• Descript for audio-editing
• Screenflow for screencast video editing
• Mac Workflow Apps
  • Cleanshot for screenshotting, annotations, and recording screen gifs
  • Raycast for moving around apps quickly
  • Magnet for window management
  • HandMirror for monitoring video
  • HiddenMe for hiding icons on desktop
• Note Apps (too many lol)
  • Notion for work and podcast notes
  • Obsidian for 2nd brain, brainstorming
  • Textmate for scratchpads while working on a project
  • Apple Notes for personal on-the-go and collaborative notes for home
• Fantastical for desktop calendars 
• Apple Mail on phone for personal inboxes, Gmail app for work emails

Build and Learn around the web

• Twitter: @buildandlearn_
• Colin: @colinloretz
• CJ: @cjav_dev