I took a few minutes to brain dump all the general tools that make my life better as a developer.

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iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

iTerm 2

Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.

Tower

The browser for developers

Stop wasting time and speed up your development workflow

Sizzy

Database management made easy

Modern, native, and friendly GUI tool for relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite & more

TablePlus

Build APIs together

Over 15 million developers use Postman. Get started by signing up or downloading the desktop app.

Postman

Dashboards for developers

Open source plugins for metrics about your programming

WakaTime

Text Automation

aText is a text template, text shortcut, text macro, text automation, text expansion tool.

aText accelerates your typing in any application by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.

aText

Jumpcut is a macOS clipboard manager that provides Mac users with quick, intuitive access to their clipboard history, with an interface that stays out of their way. It’s been around for over fifteen years, saving users time and preventing frustration whenever they need to use a phone number, URL, or code snippet that they had just a minute ago. It’s absolutely free and open source under the MIT License.

Jumpcut

Powerful JSON viewer and editor for macOS, iOS.

Jayson

Validate and view JSON documents
JSONView port for Chrome.

JSONView

Convert JSON into gorgeous, typesafe code in any language.

Generate models and serializers from JSON, schema, and GraphQL for working with data quickly & safely in any programming language.

quicktype

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

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Developer Productivity