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Apr 28, 2021 โ€ข 12 tweets โ€ข 7 min read โ€ข Read on X
Are you a developer? ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

Check out these awesome macOS apps that will help you tremendously with your day-to-day work.

Reviews are from my personal experience, I have used all these apps and still using most of them.

In alphabet order ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
1/ ๐Ÿ“ท @CleanShot

Take screenshots, GIF, video, and annotate with arrows, text, and boxes. Very helpful and convenience when you need to show off your demo.
2/ ๐Ÿ›  @devutils_app

This app helps you with every small little tasks you have to do as a developer: format JSON, decode Base64, generate UUID, text diff checker,... you name it!
3/ ๐Ÿด @git_fork

Beautiful Git client, with all the features you ever need! I mostly use the git command line but sometimes I need to have a quick overview of a repo or to check a quick diff, I use Git Fork.
4/ ๐Ÿ“• @kapeli (Dash)

Lookup docs offline. It downloads all the documents for the languages/libraries/frameworks you are working on and lets you view them offline. The search feature is fast too!

It also has a snippet feature. I have been a happy user of Dash for a long time!
5/ ๐Ÿพ @luckymarmot (Paw)

Another beautiful native macOS app: an API client. Like Postman but faster and smoother! My favorite feature of Paw is client code generation. You can export your request as code for ~30 languages/framework! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ
6/ ๐Ÿงฎ @numiapp

Like calculator but smarter! Many features to helps you with ad-hoc calculations and conversions. I still haven't not discovered most of them!
7/ ๐Ÿ“ก @proxyman_app (by @_nghiatran)

This is the game-changer app for developers who need to debug their app HTTP traffic.

You can see the request/response body easily (even for HTTPS requests) and it only takes a few clicks to set up the!
8/ ๐Ÿ–ฅ @sizzyapp

Test your responsive website with a ton of helpful features: multiple screen size screenshot, social media poster preview, network simulation, synchronized scroll, etc.
9/ ๐Ÿ˜@TablePlus

My go-to database client. Support all the relational databases I need to work with (MySQL, PosgreSQL, SQLite) and even NoSQL (Redis). Native and beautiful!
10/ โฑ@TimingApp

I only used this recently and already falling in love with it! Super convenience to track your time and see where you spend most of your day.
That's all! What are your favorite apps? Did I miss any good ones? Let me know! ๐Ÿ˜„

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1. Do what really matters

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This helps me make better decisions.
2. Break big tasks into small tasks

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I deploy to production almost every day.

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I'm obsessed about screenshots and I get mad when I see a bad screenshot on social media. ๐Ÿ˜‚

If you find my screenshots are beautiful and want the same, read this.

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- Have some space (breathing room).
- If the image has text, make sure the text is readable.

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Gmail aliases + forwarder is troublesome.

HEY email is nice but expensive ($12/mo/domain, and I have 5 email domains in use + 20 aliases)

I'm thinking of going with Fastmail, as they offer unlimited domains ๐Ÿ‘€
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Automatic send-as for catch-all emails is just a huge time saver.

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