Nikolay Garmash

I switched from Sublime Text and completely happy with WebStorm's performance. Not to mention that the set of features is way better.

Refactoring feature saves me a lot of time every single day. Autocompletion is great, especially with statically-typed languages.

One of my must-have plugins is IdeaVim. I'm not a power vim-user but navigation and window-management with vim-shortcuts are much faster and, somehow, intuitive for me).

I work all the time in the "Distraction Free" mode, so I see only my code and everything else is called with shortcuts.

My font for a couple of years already is Source Code Pro

Set of plugins and completions for your bash shell. Does not make your shell as fancy as would ZSH or Fish do, but brings it pretty close. As a bonus, you won't have any compatibility problems with any cli tools, which is the case sometimes with other shells.

My bash-it, along with other configs, you can find in my .dotfiles

My second most used tool while working.

It has two features which stop me from switching to default macOS Terminal app:

• Select to copy — really handy to copy anything from terminal by just selecting it

• Cmd+click on a link to open it — very common case when developing web-applications

I have separate tab for each project and every tab has multiple splits.

A little tool which makes your git-diffs much more legible.

Another CLI tool, user-friendly curl-replacement. I just can't help to forget curl flags every time I use it 😁

Simple global color-picker which sits in the menu-bar.

Time after time I make mockups for my pet-projects and, at least for web-designs, Sketch fits really well.

I like very much the idea of keeping development environment in some kind of self-contained boxes, so no matter how badly I mess up my system, projects are safe and ready to run.

Previously it was Vagrant, now it's container, as they are much more lightweight.

Also, I put into containers software which has dependencies I don't want to be in my host OS. E.g. something needs Python or Ruby or whatever — it goes to container, it's the nice way to keep your system clean.

These two work in pair, Feedly manages RSS-subscriptions, and Reeder has really good UI for reading feeds (reading something directly in Feedly is a torture btw, don't do that)

Below, my most interesting subscriptions.

English:

• Google developer platforms updates

• Practical Pixels — pixel-art lessons

• Booking.com design blog

• Indie Hackers

Russian:

• Блог Рахима Давлеткалиева

• Блог Ильи Бирмана

• Бизнес-линч студии Лебедева

• Блог Сергея Короля

• Советы Бюро Горбунова

• Блог Антона Жиянова

• Блог Игоря Штанга

• Блог Жени Арутюнова

Also I'm subscribe to my friends movie rates, IMDB has RSS build-in, really useful trick.

I have it installed on a phone and as an extension in a browser, very handy to save something for later reading with just one click.

Besides some entertaining, Twitter for me is a source of programming-related articles which go to Instapaper. Tweetbot so far is the best client, at least because it shows everything in natural chronological order.

One of the main sources of information for me, not just technical, but in general, and some entertainment of course. I use native iOS Podcasts app. Podcasts are mostly in Russian but also few in English.

English:

• Serial

• S-Town

• Stuff You Should Know

Russian:

• Радио-Т

• Веб-стандарты

• UWP — Еженедельный подкаст от Umputun

• Evergreen Podcast

• Хекслет

• Брендятина

Despite it's a messenger, it has so-called Channels — thematic feeds, where people post short (mainly) news or thoughts, not cluttered like Twitter and one channel is dedicated to some specific topic.

You can find services which generate RSS-feed out of a channel, so you can read them in one place with your usual subscriptions.

For me it's always one note for one project, like a workspace, where I collect all todos, URLs, random notes with ideas, etc. Each project has a unique structure, which is very useful when it comes to a creative process of shaping some idea.

Very nice app to store not only passwords but also documents, bank cards information and secret notes, all is encrypted and stored locally.