Cool Tools
A smattering of tools I use regularly:
Software
- Arc from the Browser Company is my web operating system, in tandem with Firefox for focused development work.
- Beeper is a messaging godsend, for integrating Slack, Facebook, WhatSapp, and iMessage, and getting SMS messages on my computer.
- Toggl has been in continuous use for my entire web development career.
- NetNewsWire + The Old Reader for all my old-skool RSS needs.
- Day One for personal journaling.
Neat Stuff
- Embed Responsively: responsive YouTube/Vimeo video embeds. The embed-container class is included by default in my boilerplate projects now.
- SVGOMG: UI to get source code for SVG images, and vice versa.
- CSS Triangle Generator (seems to be dead now): Quickly generate CSS border triangles.
- Cubic Bezier: Essential CSS animation tool
- CSSgradient.io: Generate custom CSS gradients with Photoshop-like functionality.
- CSS Clip Path Maker: Make clipping shape paths for images.
References
- CSS Tricks’ Complete Guide to Flexbox: I reference this weekly. Every single web component is either a flex row or a flex column, or made up of many rows and columns.
- CSS Tricks’ Complete Guid to Grid: I am growing to use Grid more often, and so this page is often open on my browser.
Hardware
I work on a 16″ 2019 Macbook Pro, and a Remarkable tablet is my digital notepad. Used daily for devotions, habit tracking, and notetaking.