Software I use, gadgets I love, and other things I recommend.

I get asked a lot about the things I use to build software, stay productive, or buy to fool myself into thinking I’m being productive when I’m really just procrastinating. Here’s a big list of all of my favorite stuff.

Workstation

  • Lenovo T480s

    Core i5. 20GB RAM. 256GB SSD.

Development tools

  • PhpStorm

    PhpStorm is a development tool for PHP and Web projects. It's a perfect PHP IDE for working with Laravel, Symfony, Drupal, and other frameworks.

  • PyCharm

    JetBrains PyCharm is a Python IDE for data science and web development with intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error checking, quick-fixes, and much ...

  • Sublime Text 4

    I don’t care if it’s missing all of the fancy IDE features everyone else relies on, Sublime Text is still the best text editor ever made.

  • Termius

    Termius helps to organize the work of multiple DevOps and engineering teams. It reduces the admin work for managing users. Enterprise compliance.

  • Oh My Zsh

    Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration. It comes bundled with thousands of helpful functions ...

Developer services

  • GitHub

    GitHub is where over 100 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, ...

  • Cloudflare

    Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.

Technologies & Frameworks

  • Laravel

    Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern and based on Symfony.

  • PHP

    A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  • Bootstrap

    Powerful, extensible, and feature-packed frontend toolkit. Build and customize with Sass, utilize prebuilt grid system and components, and bring projects to life with powerful JavaScript plugins.

  • Jira

    Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management.

General

  • Google Chrome

    Google Chrome simply known as Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed and created by Google

  • Lastpass

    LastPass is a password manager distributed in subscription form as well as a freemium model with limited functionality. The standard version of LastPass comes with a web interface, but also includes plugins for various web browsers and apps for many smartphones.

Meetings

  • Google Meet

    Google Meet is a video-communication service developed by Google. It is one of two apps that constitute the replacement for Google Hangouts, the other being Google Chat.

  • Skype

    Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.

Social

  • Discord

    Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers".

  • Telegram

    Telegram Messenger is a globally accessible freemium, cross-platform, encrypted, cloud-based and centralized instant messaging service. The application also provides optional end-to-end encrypted chats, popularly known as secret chat and video calling, VoIP, file sharing and several other features.