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The tools that powered my daily life as a software engineer.

Hardware

What’s in my engineer backpack

  • 🎒Aer Tech Pack - Absolutely phenomenal bag with minimalistic design and water resistant, perfect for the rainy Saigon.
  • 💻15-inch 2018 Macbook Pro - I’d love it more if it didn’t break twice a year.
  • 📱iPhone XS Max - For taking mundane daily photos, and to Uber around.
  • 📧11-inch iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard - OMG, this is currently my most favorite Apple device, I’m on it most of the time when I’m not coding.
  • 🎧Bose QC35 - A godsent if you travel often, or usually work in coffee shops.
  • 👂AirPods 2 - I use it to listen to podcasts while commuting around the city.
  • 👛distilunion’s Wally Bifold - it has been with me for ~ 3 years and still holding strong
  • 📦Samsung Portable SSD T5 - Mostly used to tranfer files around my iPad and MBP.
  • 🖲Logitech MX Master 2S - When I need that ergonomic feeling.
  • 📒Muji’s stationery - I’m a big fan of Muji and its simple design, I carry around a notebook, and some Muji pens.
  • 🚠Cables - A bunch of USB-C, lighting cables mostly from Anker.

Software

  • 🀄️Moom - It’s like i3wm but for macOS.
  • 🐳Docker - When I need to spin up a background services or a Tensorflow instance
  • 💬Telegram - Communication tool of choice. Man you gotta appreciate the speed of the app
  • 🔐1Password - To store all my passwords, OTP, private keys and other secured notes
  • 🗒iA Writer - All my notes are in markdown and put under version control as a Pragmatic Programmer
  • 🎩Alfred - From opening apps, to sophisticated workflows, Alfred is the savior
  • 🐛Xcode - Swift
  • 📑Dash - To quickly look up API documentation using Alfred integration.
  • 🛡Adguard - I love ads.
  • 🐘TablePlus - SELECT * FROM chair
  • 👨‍🚀Proxyman - A native HTTP proxy debugging app.

Shell Setup

“Where there is a shell, there’s a way”

I’m most productive if given a shell, my configs are on dotfiles.

  • 🐡Fish - “Out Of The Box” shell that’s arguably better than zsh
  • 📝Neovim - My text editor of choice that needs no introduction
  • 🔍fzf - fuzzy finder for everything
  • 🔌tmux - screen multiplexer, long running tasks, tile management, you name it.
  • 📖tldr - dead simple man page with examples.
  • 💀ripgrep - a better ack
  • 🐙hub - a git wrapper that allows me to interact with Github from the CLI (creating repo, creating PR)