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

  • wombatsignals@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Rectangle - for arranging windows
    Warp Terminal - a souped up terminal
    Maccy - clipboard manager
    Homebrew - installing packages
    Sublime - notepad++ equivalent
    Insomnia - api request manager like Postman

    • Generic-Disposable@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I would suggest vs code over sublime myself.

      First thing you need to install is homebrew, the second docker, vs code next.

      from that point on try and do everything with docker.

    • viniciuspc@kbin.socialOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Which improvments does Insomnia has over the Postman? Do you know if the license allows comercial use? Thanks.

      • wombatsignals@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I found postman using insane amounts of RAM a few times and some of my coworkers had switched and it’s been pretty nice so far. Pretty much the same feature set without being a RAM hog.

    • dont_even_bother_@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I highly recommend people use docker for anything they would use Homebrew for. Homebrew is fragile and breaks often. Obviously I understand the appeal, but it isn’t worth the heartburn.

  • _bin@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    iStat Menus - gives nice menubar system monitoring panes
    Soulver - notepad/calculator hybrid. great for working out thinky problems that involve math
    GrandPerspective - disk space usage management/visualization. There’s prettier options but none as quick and straightforward.
    Postico - Nice GUI for postgres
    Turn on hot corners for multitasking. Throw your cursor in a corner -> see all open apps/windows/desktop. (Used to be a default but now it’s more hidden.)

    For development? I just use VSCode and the default terminal with zpresto. (Though i switch to Nova for basic build-less html css/js stuff. It’s a nice native app as all things Panic are.)

  • dixius99@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    VS Code works well on macOS. I use it on my Windows work computer and my Mac home computer, and the experience is pretty much the same, aside from key bindings.

    From my understanding, Emacs is easier to get up and running in macOS, though I’m not really sure what the challenges are on Windows.

  • russes@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    LaunchBar as an Alfred alternative. (paid application)
    I use MacPorts in place of Brew.
    Kitty as another terminal alternative.

  • soft_frog@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Dash for offline documentation, combined with Alfred for instant searching.

    Very worth paying for, the increase in productivity is awesome.

    Iterm2 is also very helpful

  • jennraeross@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.
  • Opfes@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    You can’t go wrong with iTerm 2, it provides a lot more functionality than the default terminal. Many of my coworkers are diehard sublime users for a notepad++ alternative!

  • sarahstevens@kbin.social
    1·
    3 months ago

    CodeRunner, Whisk and Sublime are pretty good alternatives to Notepad++. I’ve tried each and can say that the apps are great.
    Insomnia is a great thing to use, too.
    And the other apps I use have already been recommended, so I hope something will work for you too.
    There are a lot of different apps, and it depends on your preferences. Also, there are different articles and blogs where you can read the info, sometimes reviews, and choose something you like and find useful. Here is one article https://setapp.com/how-to/how-to-recover-excel-file-on-mac I read it recently, and it provided me with some useful info about recovering files on Mac. There, you can also see some info about the app, which can help you to do it, and I think it’s also a useful one.

  • xmetal@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    While it has nothing to do with web dev, the app “Paste” gives you an infinite copy-paste history that is extremely useful in all kinds of ways, but I certainly make use of it when moving code around or needing to paste short strings in sequence from one place to another. You can just copy-copy-copy-copy a bunch of things and then be able to easily find the spots you have to paste into without all the flipping back and forth.