Episode 37

Our Daily Drivers: The Tools We Use

February 5, 2024 · 43:24

2024! This week, we're sharing the various tools we use day-to-day in our work and side projects. Let us know if you have any favorites on Twitter @buildandlearn_

Building

CJ: working on a side project, https://buckets.cjav.dev
Colin: working on some fun docs projects at work

Learning: Sharing Our Tools in 2024

Tools by Category

Terminal
Editor
API tools/clients
Content Creation/Editing
Mac Helper Apps
Notes
Calendar
Email

CJ's Toolkit

Warp terminal
ohmyzsh with my own theme which is based on Sarah Drasner’s night owl
Raycast
neovim
- fzf and telescope
- tpope: vim-rails, vim-commentary, vim-fugitive
- vim-test
- ale - linting
- AI: copilot + butterfish
Skitch for screenshot annotations
Postman (Used to use Insomnia a lot, but many companies have Postman collections so that’s easy to drop in)
Descript for screen recordings
Tuple for pairing

Colin's Toolkit

iTerm2 as my main terminal
ohmyzsh with Dracula Theme
VSCode as a daily driver for code and markdown (also Dracula themed)
RapidAPI client (formerly Paw)
Descript for audio-editing
Screenflow for screencast video editing
Mac Workflow Apps
- Cleanshot for screenshotting, annotations, and recording screen gifs
- Raycast for moving around apps quickly
- Magnet for window management
- HandMirror for monitoring video
- HiddenMe for hiding icons on desktop
Note Apps (too many lol)
- Notion for work and podcast notes
- Obsidian for 2nd brain, brainstorming
- Textmate for scratchpads while working on a project
- Apple Notes for personal on-the-go and collaborative notes for home
Fantastical for desktop calendars
Apple Mail on phone for personal inboxes, Gmail app for work emails

Build and Learn around the web

Twitter: @buildandlearn_
Colin: @colinloretz
CJ: @cjav_dev

View episode transcript

Creators and Guests

Host

CJ Avilla

Developer Advocate @StripeDev. Veteran. 📽 https://t.co/2UI0oEAnFK. Building with Ruby, Rails, JavaScript

Host

Colin Loretz

I like to build software and communities. Building software at @orbitmodel 🪐 Coworking at @renocollective 🎙Sharing software learnings on @buildandlearn_

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Our Daily Drivers: The Tools We Use

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