My Daily Drivers
Juggling parenting, full time work and hobbies from my one desk means it performs multiple roles and is often messier than I’d like.
This page summarises the various things I use day to day. These things have slowly changed over time during my career and will change again in the future.
Editor, Terminal, Browser etc.
- Visual Studio Code has been my bread and butter for roughly 7 years now, you can pry it from my cold dead hands.
- I’ve customised VSC with years of settings tweaks and extensions to tailor it to my needs. Let me know if there’s an extensions I should know about!
- I prefer dark themes for everything and I’m almost always using Dracula 🧛♂️.
- I’m an annoyingly vocal Firefox fan 🦊, not only due to their best in class dev tools and focus on user privacy but because everything else is running on Chromium now, the web needs a competing browser engine.
- All my dev tools use the Fira Code font as I like the ligatures and find it very readable.
- I’ve gone back to using bash as my shell as it’s ubiquitous, alongside the Spaceship prompt for some extra sugar.
- I store my various OS and software configs and setup scripts in my dotfiles repo. Feel free to use it as inspiration but it’s obviously for my own uses and may not be appropriate for you. It’s almost certainly doesn’t reflect my actual setup now, maybe I should try NixOS 🤔.
What’s on my desk?
Whatever hardware my job sends me and my own M1 Mac. I’ve recently bought and iPhone and Apple Watch as my partner has always used iPhone and for the 🌈 ecosystem 🌈. I must admit I am converted at this point.
These are alongside various peripherals:
- 🖱️ A logitech MX Master 3, the best mouse I’ve ever used.
- ⌨️ ZSA Moonlander 🌙 I’d happily use this for the rest of my life. I previously used a Microsoft surface ergonomic which I loved.
- 🖥️ I’m sorely lacking in monitors, using some cheap, mismatched 1080p screens. But this will be my next hardware investment for sure.
- 📷 Logitech Streamcam. I’m no camera expert, it always works and delivers clear video in various light levels.
- 🎧 Sony WH-1000 XM3 bluetooth headphones. Ridiculous noise cancelling, very comfortable (unless it’s hot weather) and multi day battery life.