"Apps I’ve been using regularly this year." Heavily inspired by Jeff Triplett.

Things That Are Apps

🌐 Browser: Chrome -- I've tried Arc, Vivaldi, Safari... none of them work for me.
🔍 Search: Kagi
📝 Writing: Emacs
📁 Cloud File Storage: Dropbox + Syncthing
💬 Chat: Signal, WhatsApp, Apple Messages, Discord, Slack
📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
📹 Video Calls: Zoom
🎵 Music. : Apple Music
🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
🔐 Password Management: 1Password
🧑‍💻 Code Editor: Emacs
🗃️ Version Control: Magit
🗃️ Version Control: Jujutsu
🐚 Terminal: iTerm2
✈️ VPN: Tailscale
📨 Mail Client: MailMate (Gmail only)
📮 Mail Server: Fastmail + Gmail
🚀 Launcher: Alfred 5
👔 Menu Bar: Bartender¹ + Hidden Bar
🤖 Containers: Docker Compose + OrbStack
🎒 Backups: Backblaze

In the Terminal

I use a whole lot of terminal utilities, since I don't really live in an IDE. Between Emacs libraries and shell utilities, it's quite a list, and all of them are critical to my computer experience. Rather than lump them in above, here's a selection:

🐚 Shell: fish
🗄️ dotfiles by chezmoi
🛠️ Installers: homebrew and mise
Prompt: starship
Python envs: uv
🐢 command history by atuin

1. Bartender got bought and wasn't really transpaent about it. ↩︎