I'm obsessed with learning new tech especially if it will help me be more productive and make what I do daily less painful. Below are a bunch of tools and utilities I use daily. I'm mostly on a Windows machine, but a lot of these tools can work on Linux and Mac. Feel free to give them a try.
This is not part of an affiliate program or anything. I will disclose that in the future if I decide to get into those. But I just wanted to share resources that I continue to rely on that you might find useful.
If you have a couple of resources that you would like to share, feel free to do so in the recommendation section below. This is a list that will continue to evolve.
APPS
Programming / Development Tools
- VSCode (Text Editor)
- Sublime Text 3 (Text Editor)
- Notepad++ (Text Editor)
- XAMPP (PHP webstack / environment)
- Cmder (Terminal App)
- HeidiSQL (Database Managmeent Tool)
- Putty (SSH Client)
- Godot (Game Engine)
Graphics Tools
- GIMP (Adobe Photoshop alternative)
- InkScape (Adobe Illustrator alternative)
- MagicaVoxel (Voxel Editing app)
- Figma (prototyping tool)
Document Processors and Productivity Tools
- Obsidian (Notetaking, task-management, mind-mapping, project management)
- Trello (Task-management, project-management)
- LibreOffice
Useful Sites
- DevDocs.io (Documentation library for many different languages)
- Unsplash (Free to download and use images)
- One.com (my hosting provider since 2010)
- Bluehost (Managed hosting solutions)
- Linode (DIY server solutions)
Internet Related
- Brave (Browser)
- Firefox (Browser)
- ThunderBird (Email Client)
PODCASTS
- Afrobility: Africa Tech & Business
- Developer Tea
- Voices of the ElePHPant
- Views on Vue
- The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
- Software Daily
- Open Source Security Podcast
- FLOSS Weekly
- Entrepreneurs on Fire Business Podcast
- PHP Town Hall
- Side Hustle School
- The $100 MBA Show
- The Sausage Factory
- The Tim Ferriss Show
- The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast
- Lead to Win
YOUTUBE CHANNELS
- Linus Tech Tips
- Vue Mastery
- Fireship
- TechGumbo
- DesignCourse
- Molly Rocket
- Miziziziz
- Traversy Media
- Kevin Powell
- Visual Studio Code
- Techlore
- Alex Lancer
- GDC
- Odysee
- Steve Griffith
- Flutter
- The Net Ninja
BOOKS
- David Thomas, Andrew Hunt - The Pragmatic Programmer
- Robert C. Martin - Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble - The DevOps Handbook
