Tools

Its been quite a while since I wrote up what I am using on day to day, in fact I seem to have skipped all of 2016. Desktop Apps Not too much change on the Desktop … Visual Studio Code external link; I started off the year Atom, but this gives me the same functionality and seems quicker Pastebot external link; Working in tech means I copy and paste alot, this lets me sync and (not all from StackOverflow external link) Bear external link; For note taking … still using SublimeText external link (Still the best text editor around), 1Password external link, Photoshop external link, Omnigraffle external link, Tweetbot external link & MS Office external link....

I am currently using most of these tools day to day … Desktop Apps SublimeText external link — Still the best text editor around Dashline external link — Cross device password manager Desk external link — Great editor for writting blog posts Photoshop external link — For ermmmmm Photos OmniGraffle external link — For diagrams and stuff Reeder 2 external link — For reading all the feeds GitHub Mac Client external link — The Mac GitHub client Commandline Apps Home Brew external link — Install “missing” stuff on macs Cask external link — Install Mac Apps using the command line using Brew StormSSH external link — Key & hosts management known_hosts external link — A simple cli known hosts manager Packer external link — Build machine images Z external link — Jump around the CLI Vagrant external link — Run machines built with Packer Services Digital Ocean external link — Server Hosting AWS external link — Server Hosting CloudFlare external link — CDN & Stuff Github external link — Code Hosting Pinboard external link — Bookmarks Evernote external link — Note taking RememberTheMilk external link — Task management Feedly external link — For managing all the newsfeeds Pocket external link — For reading articles later Toggl external link — Time tracking Authy external link — A nice Two Factor Authentication tool Plex external link — An impressive cross device media centre … so not much in the way of changes since I last wrote external link about the tools I use....

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

I did a clean installation of my laptop this weekend, rather than go through the list of apps I had installed and do a manual installation of each one using the “Download and drag” method I decided to use Cask external link. Cask is a Homebrew external link package which automates to the download and install part. Here is pretty much my entire installation process …. ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)" brew doctor brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask brew cask install google-chrome brew cask install dropbox brew cask install google-drive brew cask install sublime-text brew cask install github brew cask install spotify brew cask install libreoffice brew cask install virtualbox brew cask install skype The only downside is that it installs the packages into the users Application directory which set my OCD off, it was quickly remedied though by simply moving the link once I had installed everything I needed....

I am trying to streamline my workflow at the moment. Currently on the Mac these are; StormSSH external link — Key Managment Vagrant external link — Local Server testing Packer external link — Build Machine Images SublimeText external link — Text Editor Z external link — Jump around the CLI Le-git external link — Adds some GIT features Git Tower external link — GUI for GIT Home Brew external link — Install “missing” stuff and on my servers;...