tools.
I use the following software fairly often, and I thought I would list them out in no particular order, in case anyone else finds themselves looking for a sweet set of tools for their toolbox. I’ve tried to list any applications I use exclusively on a particular platform with that platform listed afterwards in parenthesis, and anything without a restriction I just list the name.
Desktop Tools
- Cursor.ai as my primary development environment across all operating systems
- iTerm as my shell/terminal experience
- Brave / Chrome for development and general browsing
- Slack / Microsoft Teams / Discord for chat and comms
- OneDrive / Dropbox / iCloud / Google Drive for cloud-based storage
- Godot, Unity, Unreal for game development
- Claude Code, Codebuff for terminal-based AI design, research and development
- Replit as an AI prompt-driven development environment and prototyping ground (“vibe coding”)
Web Tools
- PayPal / Wave / Stripe for invoicing
- Gmail / Fastmail for email
- Office 365 / G Suite for document-based collaboration
- GitHub, GitLab for source control and issue management
- Trello for planning, feature development and roadmaps