Updated: February 8, 2024

Developer culture states that we must be curious about the setup of our colleagues. I’m always curious about how other developers work, so this page assumes that of you too. If there’s anything missing below please feel free to contact me so I can make the list a bit more comprehensive.

This Site

• Running on WordPress.
• Custom, bespoke, artisanal, handcrafted, homespun theme.
• Search is powered by SearchWP.
• Contact form is powered by Gravity Forms.

Code

• Big fan of Vue for a while, but really digging Svelte right now.
• Been looking to dive in to Laravel in a real way, but still really like building stuff on top of WordPress. 🙃
• Check out GitHub for even more specifics.

Editor

• I use Visual Studio Code.
• Dank Mono is my font of choice
• Monokai Pro theme.

Visual Studio Code Extensions

• Auto Rename Tag Automatically rename the other item of a tag pair.
• GitGraph I really like git and a I really like graphs.
• GitLens Neat insight into your project’s git status in various ways.
• Import Cost Tells you (inline) how much all of those imports are costing you.
• Output Colorizer Adds additional colorization to output in panels.
• PHP Intelephense Better codesense for PHP.
• Prettier Stop stressing about formatting your code, Prettier does it all.
• Project Manager I work on a lot of projects, so this helps stay organized.
• Svelte for VS Code Svelte support.
• Trailing Spaces Automatically removes trailing spaces on save.
• Vetur Vue tooling.

Hardware

• 2020 13″ MacBook Pro, but I’m setting up a Framework as you read this
• Rode Podcaster with shock mount on boom arm.
• IKEA desk

Desktop Apps

• Alfred starts up just about everything, calculates everything, and gives me snippets.
• I use Things after having used OmniFocus for a decade.
• Time Machine and Backblaze provide redundant backup.

Camera

I spent many years building up a collection of DSLR gear but some time ago I switched to a mirrorless setup with a Fujifilm X100T but after wanting some zoom sold that and went with a Fujifilm X-T1 which I enjoy very much. To date I have resisted picking up additional lenses, but I’m not sure how much longer that will last.