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

Hardware

• 🎒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)