Developer Tools ⋆ Mark McDonnell

I don’t know who needs to hear this but: I love my developer tools.

Core

Package Manager: Homebrew
Terminal: Warp
Code Editor: Neovim

NOTES:
I was using a multiplexer (tmux) for years but colour issues forced me to switch to Zellij. I then switched from Alacritty and Zellij to using Warp as my terminal (helping to consolidate the number of tools I needed to install and configure) as Warp provided a lot of what I was using Zellij for. My switch to Warp also meant I could drop support for FZF as Warp provided fuzzy searching my history, while fd (see below) allowed me to easily locate files.

Supplementary

Code Statistics: Tokei
DNS Client: Dog
Directory Lister: Tree
Directory Navigator: Broot
Directory Switcher: Zoxide
Disk Usage: Duf
Feed Reader: Tuifeed
File Content Display: Bat
File Finder: Fd
File Lister: Exa
File Removal: Rip
File Space Usage: Dust
Network Reachability: Gping
Network Utilisation: Bandwhich
Process Status: Procs
Process/System Monitor: Htop †
Shell: Zsh
Shell Autocomplete: Fig
Shell Prompt: Starship

† I had switched to Bottom but htop is just so much more flexible and configurable, and although the graphs in btm are nice I just don’t need them.

Browser

Controversial, but I had started to move away from Firefox with a whole suite of security/privacy minded tools to Apple’s Safari browser.

I was using Safari’s “Tab Group” feature, which I really liked along with the following extensions…

AdBlock One
Dark Reader for Safari
SimplyJSON for Safari
Super Agent for Safari (Cookie Consent Automation)

…but ultimately the Tab Groups feature ended up being super buggy and duplicating bookmarks and groups etc and I couldn’t get the issue resolved, so I ended up back with Google Chrome.