What’s in the toolbox?
It’s been a while since I listed what I am using day-to-day so I thought I would do a quick update;
Desktop Apps
- SublimeText — Text Editor
- GitHub Mac Client — The Mac GitHub client
- Marked2 — Preview Markdown in real-time
- Photoshop — For ermmmmm Photos
- OmniGraffle — For diagrams and stuff
- 1Password — Locking all my passwords away
- Reeder 2 — For reading all my newsfeeds
Commandline Apps
- Home Brew — Install “missing” stuff on macs
- Cask — Install Mac Apps using the command line using Brew
- StormSSH — Key & hosts management
- known_hosts — A simple cli known hosts manager
- Packer — Build machine images
- Z — Jump around the CLI
- Jekyll — What this blog is published with
Server Stack
- CentOS 7 — The Base OS
- Puppet — Configuration Management
- SaltStack — Infrastructure management
- Docker — Run Linux containers
- New Relic — Server Monitoring
Services
- Digital Ocean — Server Hosting
- AWS — Server Hosting
- CloudFlare — CDN & Stuff
- Github — Code Hosting
- Pinboard — Bookmarks
- EverNote — Note taking
- RememberTheMilk — Task management
- Feedly — For managing all the newsfeeds
- Pocket — For reading articles later
The biggest change since the last update is …..
- Google Chrome — After being a hardcore Safari user I have finally made the switch to Chrome, though this may change again with the release of Yosemite.
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