My sleek and modern Linux development machine in 2021

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Starship (Shell Prompt)

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

#Developer Tools #Programming #Terminal 188 social mentions

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Slack

Communication: Of course I use Slack and for video conference I use Zoom. I also have Telegram and Signal installed.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 207 social mentions

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OBS Studio 1

Streaming: I think OBS Studio is the default choice here and is one of the best options for streaming and screen recording.

#Screenshots #Screen Recording #Screenshot Annotation

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Inkscape

Image editing and processing: Gimp for photo editing, Inkscape for vector editing, and Draw.io for illustrations. KDE also has some default apps for photo management, which is quite good.

#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 481 social mentions

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fzf

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 214 social mentions

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Flameshot

Screen capture: I use this nifty tool called Peek for screen recording and Flameshot for screenshots.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 21 social mentions

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Mailspring

E-mail: I use Mailspring as my e-mail client. It's a fairly decent mail client with nice themes and a simple UI.

#Email #Email Clients #Calendar 25 social mentions

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fish shell

Shell: This is one of the most important for a developer. I use ZSH along with the awesome Starship prompt as my shell. I tried to switch to Fish, but it was quite annoying due to its difference with bash/ZSH, and I gave up on it. I went with the default theme and settings from Starship as it was very close to my earlier setup with Oh My ZSH. I also use zsh-autosuggestions and zsh-syntax-highlighting plugins for ZSH and fzf for search.

#Developer Tools #Cryptocurrencies #Blockchain 124 social mentions

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Visual Studio Code

IDE: Visual Studio Code - My go-to editor. I love it. I use VSCode for web development, Rust, Go, JS development, DevOps, and everything other than JVM languages. A VSCode setup is never complete without some good plugins. Here are the plugins that I'm using. You can run the script to install those. For Java development, I use IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1001 social mentions

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bitwarden

Browser: Google Chrome is my primary browser. I also use Firefox sometimes. I use the Bitwarden plugin for password management.

#Password Managers #Password Management #Security & Privacy 604 social mentions

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Diagrams.net

Image editing and processing: Gimp for photo editing, Inkscape for vector editing, and Draw.io for illustrations. KDE also has some default apps for photo management, which is quite good.

#Digital Whiteboard #Diagrams #Flowcharts 229 social mentions