Tools of the trade 2017

A developer’s tool stack is something usually very personal (spaces for indent always), but I decided to share this so that I could keep a personal record of how this changes over time.

Many buttons, many options.

Let’s start with the hardware:

• Macbook Pro 2017 (13“)
• 27" 4K Monitor (LG)
• Mouse Logitech MX Master

I mainly develop with PHP so that of course influences my current development stack on the software side:

• IDE: PHPStorm | Visual Studio Code | occasional use of Vim.
• For command line: iTerm2 with Oh My Zsh (https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070). MacOSX built in Terminal defaults are horrible and decided to pick something that would look better overall.
• Homebrew to manage packages on MacOSX.
• Environment based on Docker containers.
• Spectacle App for managing windows. MacOSX is pretty horrible in this regard.
• Browser: Google Chrome. Safari is used to house the Slack web app. Desktop Slack is horrible (for memory consumption).
• For DB management I use two different applications. MySQL Workbench for production environments and Sequel Pro for dev/local.

That’s the basics. There are a few more apps that are mostly there for experimentation.