Uses

When I was trying to build my home office, the uses.tech website helped me a lot to choose my equipment so I share my own too.

Workstation​

• 14'' MacΒook Pro M2 Pro chip with 10‑core CPU, 16‑core GPU and 16GB RAM (2023)

  I have tried plenty of different choices. Windows with WSL2, Debian-based Linux systems and even Arch-based systems with i3wm. Despite the fact I was a lot faster using Linux, I was surprised at how stable MacOS is, so here we are.

• IKEA TROTTEN desk

  Last year, I started working remotely, so I was looking for a simple inexpensive desk. I went to IKEA, I tried it, I bought it and I am happy with it.

• IKEA MARKUS chair

  The same story with the desk. A simple VFM chair for professionals. I went to IKEA, I tried it, I bought it and I am happy with it.

Development​

• VS Code

  For the most of the coding projects I am working on, I am using VS Code with Vim bindings. It has a huge community and is as simple and as complex as I need.

• Vim

  For configuration files and simple coding projects, I am using Vim. Although I am using VS Code with the Vim bindings, I do not feel ready to switch all my repositories to Vim yet. If you are interested in my dotfiles, you can find them here.

• Chrome

  I have tried Brave, Firefox, Opera and Safari but I ended up using Chrome.

• iTerm2

  When I tried WSL2, I was using Windows Terminal. When I tried Linux, I was using Alacritty. Now, I am using iTerm2. I read that the MacOS community prefers it so I gave it a shot and I liked it.

• GitHub

  All of my repositories are hosted on GitHub. The reason I chose it is that it has the biggest community compared with the other platforms.

• Figma

  I do not design a lot but when I do, I use Figma. It is free, simple and online.

Productivity​

• Alfred

  Apple Spotlight feels a little buggy and slow. Alfred is a much faster alternativre and it feels smoothly to use it.

• 1Password

  I do not have much to say. If you are not using a password manager, just use 1Password.