This post is inspired by Mahdi and The Setup. I had originally written a rather terrible post about my development toolbox so I figured it was time to revisit this and get it right for people who care.
Hardware
Not a lot going on here, nothing fancy. Just macs, running OSX Lion. The hardware is a bit older, but I spend most of my time in a terminal, so I don't really notice so much.
Work:
- 2008 Aluminum Macbook, 4GB ram
- Magic Mouse
- Standard Apple wired keyboard (I like having the numberpad and not having to be worried about batteries)
- 27" Cinema Display
Out of all these things, I would have to say the cinema display is incredible. I don't normally use my laptop screen when it is connected to the cinema display to avoid RSI issues, however, when I do have it open its normally just for the rdio client.
Home:
- 2010 iMac 21.5", 8GB Ram
- Magic Mouse
- Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard
I don't use this often, as it is the computer my wife uses primarily. I only tend to use it when I don't feel like slogging around with my laptop at home, or I have left it at the office or something.
I have also taken to writing drafts for my blogposts using Github Gists with my 1st Generation 32GB iPad and the apple bluetooth keyboard. I have found this to be a fantastic way to write a blogpost or a little code while out at a coffee shop or anywhere else when I am on the go.
Software
Like I said earlier, I don't spend too much time outside the console, but when I do these are the things I couldn't live without.
- Moom - This is an awesome app, it allows you to tile windows in OSX, attach hotkeys to tiling commands and a bunch of other niceties that don't exist on OSX.
- rdio - As I mentioned earlier, I use rdio. I listen to music all the time while coding, or thinking or just about anything, so I have rdio going basically all the time.
- Flint - We use campfire for team chat in the office so I use flint for that.
- Chrome - The web browser of champions, I pretty much use Chrome exclusively now and normally have way too many tabs open.
- Skitch - I use skitch for taking screenshots on OSX it has really great support for simple editing and cropping of your screenshots that I would have a hard time switching to anything else. I dont use their server anymore for storage of my screenshots, I have a proxy set up using heroku to send my screenshots to a Amazon S3 bucket. This is accomplished with s3itch.
- Dropbox -Dropbox is fantastic. I store all the git repos I am working on in Github and it has saved my butt a few times now. I can feel safe everything is backed up and even untracked files(in git) are being versioned, just incase I delete a untracked file I end up needing.
- Alfred - Alfred is an indispensable quick launcher app in the vein of quicksilver. I spend most of my time with my hands off the mouse so I don't know what I would do without Alfred.
- RescueTime - I work pretty hard to try to stay productive and at the very least stay knowledgeable about where my time is going. RescueTime helps with that by tracking what I do on the computer every day.
Command Line Life
The command line is where I spend most of my time, on OSX I don't use the terminal software that comes with OSX, I use iTerm2. In that terminal I use:
- Zsh with Oh-my-zsh, because as you know, Zsh is your friend, you can check out my .zshrc in my dotfiles repo.
- Vim - The only text editor in my opinion. This is where I spend most of my time check out my vimfiles for setup details.
- tmux - Tmux is great. Its a great alternative to gnu screen, highly configurable and looks great.
- bpython - bpython is improved interface to the Python interpreter. It supports syntax highlighting, autocomplete and a bunch of other useful features. I usually have bpython open all day every day.
On My desk
Books:
- Natural Language Processing With Python - Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper
- Javascript - The Definitive Guide - David Flanagan
- Expert Python Programming - Tarek Zaide
A bunch of Pycoders stickers
Thats about it. What does your setup look like?