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Just bought my first macbook what apps should I install as a web developer? (kbin.social)
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During my entire life (32 years) I used windows and linux machines. Now I bought my first mac book and I would like to know what tools is nice to have to make my work easy.

I am a developer ruby on rails and use vscode, also I use the terminal a lot and the default terminal is not that great. Also I miss notepad++

Any sugestions?

Thank You

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My recommendations are going to be:

  • Termius: A very nicely designed SSH & SFTP program
  • Sip: A menubar app to grab colors from your screen in hexadecimal
  • Amethyst: A Tiling Window Manager. You'll either love it or hate it, depending on how much you like keyboard shortcuts
  • Codekit: An all-in-one preprocessor. Less practical for large projects, but it's no-nonsense setup is nice for small ones
  • Arc Browser: A mac-exclusive Chromium based browser, built specifically to organize large amounts of tabs at once. It also provides excellent support for splitting the pane between multiple tabs and is very pretty
  • I'll second the rec for iTerm 2. It's a very dependable terminal.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Along with iTerm, https://jqlang.github.io/jq/ is helpful when running random curl scripts. Aside from just formatting the output you can also filter.