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Uses

A collection of tech and software used at Adocasts that we deem vital to our lives as developers and content creators. Some items may be referrals.

Hardware

💻 2021 14" Macbook Pro — Primary dev, recording, and video editing laptop
🖥 2019 HP OMEN Obelisk 875 — Gaming and editing desktop. Media Server
🖥 Z-Edge 32" 4K IPS Monitor — My primary and gaming monitor
⌨️ Logitech MX Keys — Bluetooth keyboard that can connect to 3 devices
🖱 Razer Basilisk X Hyperspeed Mouse — Mouse I use for my Macbook Pro
🖱 Corsair Harpoon Mouse — Wired mouse I use for my OMEN
🎙 Blue Yeti Microphone — Microphone I use for all my recordings
🗄 WD MyCloud NAS Storage — 4TB worth of network accessible storage
🖊 reMarkable 2 — My notebook and sketchbook

Adocast's/Tom's office setup

Frameworks and Libraries

AdonisJS — My go to backend framework
VueJS — My go to frontend framework
Japa — For AdonisJS/NodeJS testing
InertiaJS — For monoliths with heavy front-end updating
Unpoly — For monoliths with light front-end updating
TailwindCSS — Our CSS framework of choice

Git and Hosting

GitHub — What I primarily use for Git
Cleavr — An amazingly simple server and deploy manager
Vultr — What we now use to host our sites
Google Cloud Storage — What we now use for image hosting
Mailjet — What we use for transactional email
Revue — What we use for our newsletter

Software

Firefox Developer Edition — Long live the Firefox console!
Premiere Pro CS6 — Video editing software
Photoshop CS6 — Vector image editing software
Illustrator CS6 — Raster image editing software
Hyper — My terminal of choice. I use Zsh with Oh-My-Zsh
TablePlus — A fantastic database management GUI
Notion — What I use to write docs and lessons
Grammerly — Because English is hard
PilotMoon Scroll Reverser — Alters Mac scrolling to match Windows

Editor and Extensions

WebStorm 2022.2 — My current text editor of choice
VS Code — My editor of choice when working with Edge a lot
GitHub Dark Theme — I also use this theme for code snippets on Adocasts
City Lights Icons — I use the color variant
AdonisJS Extensions — Adds some neat AdonisJS support to VS Code
Edge Template Support — Adds support for the Edge Template Engine
Better Comments — I like my TODOs to stand out