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Hardware

• Laptop: MacBook Pro
• Keyboard: DasKeyboard 4 Ultimate
• Mouse: Delux Vertical Ergonomic Mouse changed my life. No more wrist pain
• Webcam: Fujifilm X-T3
• Lens: Fujifilm 23mm
• Tripod: Joby GorillaPod 3K

Essential Software

• Alfred. ⌘ + ⎵
• Fujifilm Webcam
• iTerm 2
• Microsoft Edge for when Opera GX fails me
• Monitor Control because we can’t control brightness on secondary monitors?
• Notion—It’s a cult
• Opera GX for gaming/dev-friendly features like CPU and RAM limiting and MyFlow
• PDFsam for merging PDFs
• Rectangle. Need window snapping.
• Scroll Reverser because natural scrolling is not natural to me
• VS Code. Yes.

Browser Extensions

• RIP Pesticide. Outliner CSS is my best friend now

VS Code

Nice to have extensions:

• Bracket Pair Colorizer 2. Colours.
• Code Spell Checker. The number of typos is too high.
• Dracula Official. Dracula Soft please
• Formatting Toggle. Much needed.
• Better Comments. More fancy highlighting
• GitLens. To find out who wrote that code
• indent-rainbow. More colours!
• iTerm 2 Theme Sync—must have same theme everywhere
• Peacock for when you have many VS Code windows open at once
• Prettier. Yes.
• Markdown All in One lets you use shortcuts and does fancy autocompleting
• markdownlint tells you what’s wrong with your markdown (a lot)
• Tabnine Autocomplete AI for autocompletion goodness

Custom pastel/rainbow settings for your settings.json file:

{
    "bracket-pair-colorizer-2.colors": [
        "Plum",
        "#E9B4AE",
        "#9AE3A1",
        "PowderBlue",
        "LightPink",
        "LightSkyBlue"
    ],
    "indentRainbow.colors": [
        "rgba(255, 128, 0, 0.15)",
        "rgba(255, 255,0, 0.15)",
        "rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.15)",
        "rgba(0, 255, 255, 0.15)",
        "rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.15)",
        "rgba(127, 0, 255, 0.15)",
        "rgba(255,0,255,0.15)"
    ],
    "peacock.favoriteColors": [
        {
        "name": "Pastel Red",
        "value": "#ffb3ba"
        },
        {
        "name": "Pastel Orange",
        "value": "#ffdfba"
        },
        {
        "name": "Pastel Yellow",
        "value": "#ffffba"
        },
        {
        "name": "Pastel Green",
        "value": "#baffc9"
        },
        {
        "name": "Pastel Blue",
        "value": "#bae1ff"
        }
    ],
}