- Adobe Suite – Mainly for small image and vector edits.
- 1Password – To have unique passwords everywhere.
- Amphetamine – To keep my MacBook awake.
- BatFi – Manually adjust charge limit, since I am most of the time on corded power.
- ChatGPT – Mainly for research and questions. Also, some smaller text edits, but I generally try to avoid LLMs for this blog.
- Clipy – The best clipboard manager, can't work without it.
- Color Picker – Why doesn't macOS have one?
- DaVinci Resolve – For cutting my vacation videos.
- Firefox – Because of Adblocking and Containers.
- HandBrake – Crush the size of screencasts.
- Hidden Bar – Tidy up the many bar which has 24 icons without
- Infuse – To play media from my NAS.
- LinearMouse – To have reverse scrolling on the mouse but natural on the Trackpad. Also, no mouse acceleration.
- LuLu – To know for sure which app is phoning home (or worse: somewhere else).
- MacGesture – Global mouse gestures to speed things up.
- MonitorControl – Changes display brightness of external monitors too (via DCC).
- Pieoneer – Tidy app launcher for my most used stuff.
- Rectangel Pro – Freely configurable windows manager.
- Reeder Classic – To stay up to date.
- VirtualBuddy – To have a sandbox machine at hand.
- Visual Studio Code – My go-to text editor.
- WireGuard – Connecting to my home network.
- WorkFlowy – My second brain.