Tech recommendations
List of various tech recommendations
Recommended by me
Tools
- Fish Shell
- Why use a difficult to set up shell, when you don’t need it? Preconfigured with a ton of quality of life features.
- Mailmate
- A wonderful simple and mature email client for macOS. Has everything you need.
- Mailbox
- One of the best email providers out there. Privacy first, relatively cheap, based in Germany.
- SendFly
- If you ever need to set up a contact form, this could be just what you need.
- Astro
- THE BEST WAY to build (mostly) static websites with a bit of interaction. Ships just what you need, while being very easy to use.
- Sourcehut
- Actually good git hosting (and more). Awesome ethics, easy to use and the it’s owner? Drew DeVault is a cool guy.
- Raycast
- A do it all launcher and productivity tool. Like Alfred, but on crack.
- Zed
- A very performant text editor with enough extensibility through language servers to replace your IDE.
- Zen
- A firefox fork with a focus on privacy and a beautiful UI
People
- Heydon Pickering
- Creator of Every Layout and more. Fun guy with smart ideas
- Lea Verou
- Smart person, great indepth and clever CSS knowledge. Expert at colors, too.
- Adam Argyle
- Another very entertaining and smart CSS and Browser person. Has a good youtube series on CSS creations.
- The Primeagen
- Funny, entertaining and very competent. What’s not to like, this guy’s amazing.
- The guys from PostCSS
- [Discord link] Incredibly nice, very helpful, never had a problem that wasn’t resolve in MINUTES
Fonts
I’m not a (typography) designer, but I still get very happy when I find a nice looking font.
- Cartograph CF [Monospace]
- Monospaces, but warm [$$]
- Greycliff [Sans-serif]
- Sans-serif from the same design studio. Also has a subtle warm tone [$$ ]
- MD IO [Monospace]
- One of my favourite monospace fonts [$$]
- Manrope [Sans-serif]
- Great Sans-serif font for pretty much anything. Modern and clean. [free]
- Berkeley Mono [Monospace]
- Something very analytic, yet satisfying about this font. One of my favourites [$$]
- Space Grotesk
- Innovate