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Uses

The hardware-adjacent stuff — apps, extensions, and command-line tools I keep coming back to. Auto-generated from my actual machine.

Applications

These are the Applications I have installed as of 2024-10-01

  • Affinity Photo 2

    Affinity Photo 2 is a professional photo editing software that offers advanced tools and features for retouching, editing, and enhancing images.

  • Alfred 5

    Alfred 5 is a productivity application for macOS that boosts efficiency with workflows, text expansion, and more.

  • Android Studio

    Android Studio is the official Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Android app development, providing tools for designing, developing, and testing Android applications.

  • Arc

    Arc is a mobile application that allows users to easily capture and edit photos and videos with a variety of filters and effects.

  • Audacity

    Audacity is a free, open-source audio editing software that allows users to record and edit audio tracks. It offers a range of editing tools and effects for creating professional-grade audio projects.

  • Audiobook Builder

    Audiobook Builder allows users to create audiobooks from audio files by easily organizing, combining, and converting them into formats compatible with various devices.

  • Authy Desktop

    Authy Desktop is a multi-platform app that provides secure 2-factor authentication for your online accounts. It generates unique codes that must be entered along with your password to access your accounts, adding an extra layer of security.

  • Beekeeper Studio

    Beekeeper Studio is an open-source SQL query builder and database management tool that allows users to connect to multiple database systems, run queries, and visualize data in an intuitive interface.

  • Beyond Compare

    Beyond Compare is a file comparison tool that allows users to compare and synchronize files and folders. It is widely used by developers, designers, and system administrators.

  • Bitwarden

    Bitwarden is an open source password manager that securely stores all of your passwords in an encrypted vault.

  • Brave Browser

    Brave Browser is a fast and secure web browser that blocks ads and trackers, while also providing users with reward tokens for viewing privacy-respecting ads.

  • Camtasia 2024

    Camtasia 2024 is a powerful video editing and screen recording software that allows users to create professional-looking videos easily. It offers a wide range of features such as multi-track editing, animations, transitions, and more.

  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT is a chatbot application that uses GPT-3 technology to engage in human-like conversations and provide helpful responses.

  • Chromium

    Chromium is an open-source web browser developed by Google. It serves as the foundation for Google Chrome and other browsers.

  • CleanMyMac X

    CleanMyMac X is a cleaning and optimization tool for Mac computers that helps users remove junk files, speed up performance, and improve overall system health.

  • CleanShot X

    CleanShot X is a powerful screen capturing tool for macOS that allows users to take screenshots, record screen videos, annotate images, and much more.

  • Cursor

    Cursor is a productivity tool that allows users to easily highlight, extract, and share text from any website or document.

  • DNSFilter Agent

    The DNSFilter Agent is a lightweight software that provides DNS-level filtering and security for devices on a network by blocking access to malicious websites and content.

  • Day One

    Day One is a journaling app that allows users to easily capture and record their thoughts, experiences, and memories in a digital format. Users can add photos, tags, and locations to entries, as well as sync their journals to multiple devices.

  • Discord

    Discord is a communication platform designed for gamers, allowing users to voice chat, video chat, and message other users in real-time.

  • Displays

    Displays is a digital design tool that allows users to create interactive prototypes and design mockups for websites and mobile apps.

  • Docker

    Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It enables developers to package applications into containers that can be deployed on any infrastructure.

  • Evernote

    Evernote is a note-taking app that helps you stay organized and productive. You can capture ideas, create to-do lists, and save important information all in one place.

  • Fantastical

    Fantastical is a calendar and task management application that integrates with Apple devices and supports natural language input for creating events and tasks.

  • Firefox

    Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. It is known for its privacy features, speed, and customizability.

  • FreeCAD

    FreeCAD is a free and open-source 3D modeling software that allows users to design real-life objects of any size. It offers a wide range of features for creating 3D models and can be extended with various plugins.

  • GIMP

    GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image editing and creation. It has a wide range of features and can be used for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition, and graphic design.

  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome is a fast, secure, and easy-to-use web browser developed by Google.

  • Google Docs

    Google Docs is a web-based word processor offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with others.

  • Google Drive

    Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud, synchronize files across devices, and share files with others.

  • Google Sheets

    Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet application developed by Google. It allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets in real-time.

  • Google Slides

    Google Slides is a web-based presentation program that allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on presentations online.

  • HandBrake

    HandBrake is a free and open-source video transcoder software that allows users to convert video files from one format to another.

  • Headlamp

    Headlamp is a productivity tool that helps individuals manage their tasks and to-do lists effectively.

  • Keynote

    Keynote is a presentation software application developed by Apple Inc. It allows users to create visually stunning presentations with various tools and effects.

  • Kindle

    Kindle is a popular e-reader app developed by Amazon for reading e-books, magazines, newspapers, and other digital publications. It allows users to purchase and download books from the Amazon Kindle Store.

  • LaunchControl

    LaunchControl is a powerful launchd(8) frontend for macOS. It provides a graphical interface for managing all of the system and user services on your Mac.

  • Loom

    Loom is a video recording tool that allows users to quickly create and share videos for work or school.

  • Messenger

    Messenger is a messaging app that allows users to communicate with friends and family via text, voice, and video chats.

  • Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

    Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that allows you to easily work with Azure storage data on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  • Numbers

    Numbers is a spreadsheet application developed by Apple Inc. It is part of the iWork productivity suite and is available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

  • Obsidian

    Obsidian is a powerful note-taking and knowledge management application that allows users to create a personal knowledge base of interconnected notes, ideas, and information.

  • Pages

    Pages is a word processing application developed by Apple for macOS and iOS. It allows users to create, edit, and share documents with a variety of templates and formatting options.

  • Plex

    Plex is a streaming platform that organizes all your personal media and streams it to all your devices.

  • Postman

    Postman is a collaboration platform for API development that allows users to design, mock, test, document, and monitor APIs in a single tool.

  • PowerShell

    PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. It is built on the .NET framework and designed to be flexible, easy to use, and efficient.

  • Raindrop.io

    Raindrop.io is a bookmark manager that allows users to save and organize their favorite links, articles, images, and videos from across the web.

  • Rectangle

    Rectangle is a window management application for macOS that allows users to easily resize and position windows using keyboard shortcuts or by dragging. It supports various window arrangements and custom window sizes.

  • ScanSnapHomeMain

    ScanSnap Home is a scanning application that allows users to easily scan, store, and organize documents on their computers.

  • Scrivener

    Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows users to outline and organize their work, as well as easily rearrange and edit pieces of text.

  • Shotcut

    Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features a wide range of format support, audio and video effects, and supports 4K resolutions.

  • Signal

    Signal is a secure messaging app that offers end-to-end encryption to protect your communications and ensure privacy.

  • Slack

    Slack is a collaboration platform that brings together teams, facilitating communication and file sharing through channels and direct messages.

  • Spotify

    Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives users access to millions of songs, podcasts, and videos from artists all around the world.

  • Synology Drive Client

    Synology Drive Client is a desktop application that allows users to easily access, sync, and share files on their Synology NAS

  • Tag Editor

    Tag Editor is a software that allows users to easily edit metadata tags of audio files including titles, artists, albums, and genres.

  • Telegram

    Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging app that offers secure messaging and file sharing capabilities. It is known for its speed and privacy features, as well as support for channels, bots, and large group chats.

  • The Unarchiver

    The Unarchiver is a free, open-source program to extract files from various archive formats. It can handle a wide variety of compressed file types, making it a versatile tool for managing archives on macOS.

  • Todoist

    Todoist is a task management app that helps you organize your tasks, set deadlines, and prioritize your work.

  • ToothFairy

    ToothFairy is a utility application for macOS that allows users to quickly and easily connect and disconnect Bluetooth devices with just a click.

  • Tower

    Tower is a powerful Git client for Mac and Windows that makes using Git easy and more efficient. It allows users to manage their repositories, collaborate with others, and streamline their development workflow.

  • Upscayl

    Upscayl is an educational app designed to help students prepare for UPSC examinations through various study materials, practice tests, and mock exams.

  • VLC

    VLC is a free and open-source multimedia player that supports various formats including audio and video files.

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code is a lightweight yet powerful source code editor developed by Microsoft. It has built-in support for various programming languages and features like IntelliSense, debugging, and Git integration.

  • Warp

    Warp is a cloud gaming service that allows users to stream high-quality PC games to their devices without the need for expensive hardware.

  • Xcode

    Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS containing a suite of software development tools created by Apple for developing software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

  • calibre

    Calibre is a free and open-source e-book library management application that helps you organize, convert and manage your e-books. It also allows you to sync e-books with e-book readers and download news from the web to convert it into an e-book format.

  • iMovie

    iMovie is a video editing software application developed by Apple Inc. It allows users to edit videos, add music, effects, and create professional-looking movies.

  • iTerm

    iTerm is a macOS terminal emulator with a wide range of features such as split panes, hotkey window, autocomplete, and more.

  • reMarkable

    reMarkable is a digital paper tablet designed for sketching, drawing, note-taking and reading. It offers a paper-like reading and writing experience, long battery life, and high-quality display.

  • zoom.us

    Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing platform that allows users to virtually connect with others through video and audio calls, webinars, and online meetings. It is commonly used for remote work, online learning, and social gatherings.

Browser Extensions

These are some of my favorite browser extentions as of 2024-10-01

CLI tools

These are the cli tools I have installed via Homebrew as of 2024-10-01

  • automake

    Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files from Makefile.am files. It is part of the GNU build system and aids in simplifying the process of building software applications.

  • azure-cli

    The Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a set of commands used to manage Azure resources from the command line or in scripts.

  • bat

    bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

  • bitwarden-cli

    bitwarden-cli is a command line interface tool for accessing and managing passwords stored in the Bitwarden password manager.

  • certbot

    Certbot is a free, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually-administrated websites to enable HTTPS.

  • curl

    curl is a command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax.

  • derailed/k9s/k9s

    A CLI tool to navigate and observe Kubernetes resources in real-time

  • direnv

    direnv is a directory-specific environment manager for shell environments.

  • docker

    Docker is a platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers.

  • git

    git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

  • gnu-sed

    GNU sed is a stream editor for filtering and transforming text. It processes text line by line and can perform tasks such as search, find and replace, insert text, delete lines, and more.

  • grep

    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression.

  • handbrake

    HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files, originally developed in 2003. It supports converting videos from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.

  • hashicorp/tap/terraform

    Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. It allows infrastructure to be described as code, providing a high-level configuration language that can be shared, reused, and versioned.

  • helm

    Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that helps you manage Kubernetes applications without manually configuring resources like deployments, services, and ingress.

  • imagemagick

    ImageMagick is a free and open-source command-line tool for creating, editing, composing, or converting bitmap images.

  • jq

    jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor that allows you to filter, map, and transform JSON data with ease.

  • libksba

    libksba is a library that provides a high-level interface to the functions provided by the Key Server (KS) bundle. It is used to parse X.509 and CMS related objects. It also helps in writing high-level related applications.

  • mas

    mas is a CLI tool for discovering, installing, and updating App Store applications on macOS.

  • minikube

    Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. It creates a single-node Kubernetes cluster on your local machine.

  • mp4v2

    mp4v2 is a set of tools to create, inspect and modify MP4 files. It provides a library for working with MP4 files in C++ and a command-line tool for interacting with MP4 files.

  • nvm

    nvm (Node Version Manager) is a tool that allows you to manage multiple versions of Node.js on your machine.

  • ocrmypdf

    ocrmypdf is a command line tool for adding OCR text layer to scanned PDF files. It uses Tesseract OCR engine to recognize text in PDF images and creates a searchable PDF with embedded text.

  • openjdk@11

    openjdk@11 is a Command Line Interface tool for managing OpenJDK 11 installations on your system.

  • openssl@1.1

    OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.

  • opentofu

    opentofu is a CLI tool for managing and interacting with Tofu manifests, which are used for bootstrapping OpenShift clusters.

  • oven-sh/bun/bun

    CLI tool that provides a virtual shell script oven for executing shell scripts easily and efficiently.

  • pandoc

    Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting files from one markup format to another.

  • pnpm

    Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Node.js projects

  • poetry

    Poetry is a dependency management and packaging tool for Python projects. It allows you to easily manage project dependencies, virtual environments, build processes, and other packaging details.

  • pyenv-virtualenv

    pyenv-virtualenv is a plugin for pyenv that makes it easier to manage virtual environments for Python projects.

  • ripgrep

    ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore rules

  • rsync

    rsync is a command-line utility that provides fast and efficient file synchronization and transfer capabilities between different systems

  • ruby@3.2

    ruby@3.2 is a command line interface tool for managing Ruby versions. It allows users to easily switch between different versions of Ruby installed on their system.

  • ssh-copy-id

    ssh-copy-id is a script that simplifies the process of adding public keys to a remote machine's authorized_keys file. It securely copies the local public key to the remote machine.

  • teamookla/speedtest/speedtest

    speedtest is a CLI tool developed by teamookla for testing internet speed and performance using the Speedtest.net infrastructure.

  • tilt

    Tilt is a CLI tool that helps developers manage local development environments by automating tasks like building, deploying, and watching for changes in code.

  • tmux

    tmux is a terminal multiplexer that allows multiple terminal sessions to be accessed and controlled from a single window.

  • wget

    GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

  • yamlfmt

    yamlfmt is a simple command-line tool for formatting YAML files

  • yarn

    Yarn is a package manager that securely installs dependencies in a project, for faster and more reliable builds.

  • yq

    yq is a lightweight and portable command-line YAML processor. It allows you to filter, query, and manipulate YAML files using a simple and expressive syntax.

  • yt-dlp

    yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and other sites. It is a fork of youtube-dl with additional features and improvements.

  • zlib

    zlib is a software library for data compression. It provides in-memory compression and decompression functions, including functions that transparently support the gzip file format.