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
    2·
    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

  • Opfes@kbin.social
    2·
    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·
    6 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.

  • heero_youi
    1·
    1 year ago
    • HomeBrew: This is your new best friend, one of the best package managers out there and makes installing specific versions of runtimes and switching between them seamless.
    • iTerm 2/Termius: Default Terminal isn’t bad but these add a lot of quality of life features such as click to move cursor without using your keyboard and smart text linking.
    • VSCode: Unrivaled in terms of extensions.
    • Rectangle: Basically adds Windows’ snapping feature to macOS and has a lot of cool tiling features.
    • Insomnia: Postman alternative that doesn’t have a crap ton of telemetry. Bonus: You can use vim in it.
    • DBeaver: One stop shop Database client and there are drivers to make everything from Hive to Teradata connect seamlessly.
  • _bin@kbin.social
    01·
    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.)

  • jennraeross@kbin.social
    01·
    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.