During my entire life (32 years) I used windows and linux machines. Now I bought my first mac book and I would like to know what tools is nice to have to make my work easy.

I am a developer ruby on rails and use vscode, also I use the terminal a lot and the default terminal is not that great. Also I miss notepad++

Any sugestions?

Thank You

  • sarahstevens@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    CodeRunner, Whisk and Sublime are pretty good alternatives to Notepad++. I’ve tried each and can say that the apps are great.
    Insomnia is a great thing to use, too.
    And the other apps I use have already been recommended, so I hope something will work for you too.
    There are a lot of different apps, and it depends on your preferences. Also, there are different articles and blogs where you can read the info, sometimes reviews, and choose something you like and find useful. Here is one article https://setapp.com/how-to/how-to-recover-excel-file-on-mac I read it recently, and it provided me with some useful info about recovering files on Mac. There, you can also see some info about the app, which can help you to do it, and I think it’s also a useful one.

  • Opfes@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You can’t go wrong with iTerm 2, it provides a lot more functionality than the default terminal. Many of my coworkers are diehard sublime users for a notepad++ alternative!

  • wombatsignals@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Rectangle - for arranging windows
    Warp Terminal - a souped up terminal
    Maccy - clipboard manager
    Homebrew - installing packages
    Sublime - notepad++ equivalent
    Insomnia - api request manager like Postman

  • jennraeross@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My recommendations are going to be:

    • Termius: A very nicely designed SSH & SFTP program
    • Sip: A menubar app to grab colors from your screen in hexadecimal
    • Amethyst: A Tiling Window Manager. You’ll either love it or hate it, depending on how much you like keyboard shortcuts
    • Codekit: An all-in-one preprocessor. Less practical for large projects, but it’s no-nonsense setup is nice for small ones
    • Arc Browser: A mac-exclusive Chromium based browser, built specifically to organize large amounts of tabs at once. It also provides excellent support for splitting the pane between multiple tabs and is very pretty
    • I’ll second the rec for iTerm 2. It’s a very dependable terminal.