Software I use
15 October 2022 (Updated 25 July 2025)
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Here are some tools I use in my day-to-day development:
- Alfred – clipboard history, snippets, hotkeys, and other things.
- CodeSandbox – to test an idea / package, or replicate an issue in an isolated environment.
- CleanShot X – for taking screenshots & video captures.
- caniuse – to check if some CSS or JS is supported enough to be used.
- Excalidraw – to make visualizations.
- GitHub Desktop: to view Git changes
- Fonts Ninja – Chrome extension to quickly detect fonts on a page.
- iTerm – terminal emulator. Just gotten used to it now though not sure it’s much better than default terminal.
- JetBrains IDEs – PHPStorm, Webstorm, Pycharm, IntelliJ, DataGrip – depending on the project.
- LastPass – Password manager
- Postman – for working with REST APIs
- Proxyman – for debugging HTTP requests.
- Roam Research – for note-taking / freewriting
- Wappalyzer – to see what technologies a website uses.
- Vim
Tools to checkout
- Browserstack – worth the price if you need to test on different devices & platforms which you mostly need to as a front-end dev. Saves time compared to setting up virtual machines.
- BetterSnapTool
- Kap – screen recording tool
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