Browsers and Apps

Chrome browser is a bit bloated but it is my default browser to get things done.

I use Chrome Canary at times to separate personal and work-related browsing. While Chrome has multiple profiles, having different browsers is visually and mentally a lot more efficient.

Some handy Chrome extensions

• BuiltWith – Find out what the website you are visiting is built with using this extension.
• Momentum – Shows a new tab with a nice beautiful photograph of a landscape. It is very calming.
• Grammarly – Great to correct ones grammar on the fly while using Chrome. Works great with Google Docs!
• Full Screen for Google Tasks – Creates a pinned tab with pull page view of your Google Tasks.
• Font Finder – A no-frills font inspector extension
• Awesome Screenshot – Easy Screenshots but the favorite feature is to create PDFs of an entire webpage.
• Meta SEO Inspector – A nifty extension that is great to look up a page’s markup, alt-text.

Apps

• Skitch for basic annotation, shapes, and sketches
• Alfred 3 for hotkeys, keywords, text expansion for MacOS
• Slack – Have it on my computer but not on my phone or tablet
• 1Password – for managing all my passwords and ofcourse 2FA
• Spotify for music/podcasts
• Sublime Text.

Writing and Editing

Notes, Docs and Ideas

• Google Docs – I often scratch out a blog post on a Google Doc. The Grammarly extension works great in this workflow
• Pen and Paper – Great for simple quick temporary notes
• DayOne – I love their daily writing prompt and now I use it for a lot of journaling, research and saving important things (photos etc)

WordPress

I love open-source and contribute to the WordPress.org project mainly on the community side. It’s a place I truly call home when it comes to building a website online.

Here are some of the popular themes and plugins I use with WordPress.

• FrostWP Theme: A nice theme that supports Full Site Editing.
• Jetpack: While I started out not as its biggest fan, I use it often for things like infinite scroll and carousel gallery.
• Yoast SEO: A nice SEO plugin for WordPress. The plugin feels a bit bloaty but I trust Yoast because I see a lot of their folks actively contributing to the WordPress project.

To spin up a local WordPress site on my machine Local by Flywheel.

For spinning up multiple sites with LetsEncrypt SSL on a DigitalOcean droplet, and I like using EasyEngine on those droplets.

Devices and Headphones

• My current machine is a Macbook Pro (15 inch – 2017) running MacOS Catalina. The phone is a Pixel 2 and it suits my needs.
• I do own an iPad by I often end up using my Kindle Reader a lot more.
• Sennheiser Over-Ear Wireless HD 350BT Black Headphone – noise canceling, great for listening to music while working