A few weeks ago I described the hardware I’m currently using. Today, I’m writing about the software I use on an almost daily basis.

Compulsary

There’s some software I have to use at work: Slack, GMail & Google Calendar, Confluence, and GitHub: they’re all fine. And also Jira: I’m sure someone loves it.

Writing code

I’ve switched terminal emulators a few times in the last few years from being perfectly happy with iTerm 2, through Alacritty, Kitty, and finally landing on the terminal emulator all of the cool-kids are using, Ghostty.

Similarlly for my daily-editor, I switched years ago from TextMate to vim to neovim. I eventually ended up on VS Code with almost everyone else before jumping, fairly recently, to zed.

I’m happy with Ghostty and zed for now.

Browsing and Listening

I’m currently “daily driving” Arc: I like the verical tab-list (which I know I could have elsewhere), split-tabs are neat, but the killer feature is the tab-clean-up at the end of the day.

I still listen to music on Spotify, although I have extended my vinyl collection over the last few years. I do occasinally listen to stuff on Bandcamp too.

Audible is great for audiobooks and Overcast for podcasts.

Assistants

I have access to GitHub CoPilot and Google’s Gemini through work. I use CoPilot in zed when programming and ask broader questions to Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

Other stuff

All of my passwords are in 1Password and all of my to-do items in Todoist. My personal email and VPN are both through Proton.

Finally, I’d be completely lost without Raycast.