Software I use, gadgets I love, and other things I recommend.
I get asked a lot about the things I use to build software, stay productive, or buy to fool myself into thinking I’m being productive when I’m really just procrastinating. Here’s a big list of all of my favorite stuff.
Development
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Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. Out of the box, Laravel has elegant solutions for the common features needed by all modern web applications.
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Livewire
Livewire is a full-stack framework for Laravel that makes building dynamic interfaces simple, without leaving the comfort of Laravel.
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Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
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Alpine.js
Alpine is a rugged, minimal tool for composing behavior directly in your markup. Think of it like jQuery for the modern web. Plop in a script tag and get going.
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Sass
CSS with superpowers. Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world.
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Bootstrap
Bootstrap utilizes Sass for a modular and customizable architecture.
Database
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MySql
MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service for transactions, real- time analytics across data warehouses and data lakes, and machine learning.
Hosting and server management
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Forge
a server management and application deployment service. Forge takes the pain and hassle out of deploying servers and can be used to launch your next website.
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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Droplets are simple, scalable virtual machines for all your web hosting and VPS hosting needs.
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Hetzner
Your partner for system-wide hosting, from cloud to dedicated servers. We deploy the latest tech at the best price in minutes.
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Some shared hostings
Shared hosting allows multiple website owners to share space on a single server. This means that the server's resources (RAM, CPU, etc.) are shared among all the websites hosted on that server.
Version Control
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GitHub
GitHub, Inc. is a platform and cloud-based service for software development and version control using Git, allowing developers to store and manage their code.
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BitBucket
Bitbucket is a Git-based source code repository hosting service owned by Atlassian.
Tools
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Visual studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
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TablePlus
Great software for working with databases. Has saved me from building about a thousand admin interfaces for my various projects over the years.
Communication
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Slack
Slack is a new way to communicate with your team. It's faster, better organized, and more secure than email.
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Discord
Discord is the easiest way to talk over voice, video, and text.