Mohammed Sohail

Uses

List of applications, gear and extensions that I use daily

Gear

  • Monitor: ASUS ProArt PA279CV 4K USB-C and DELL S2721QS
  • Laptop: M1 MacBook Pro 14 inch with 16 GB RAM
  • Webcam: Logitech C922
  • Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3
  • Keyboard: Apple Magic Space Grey
  • Headphones: Airpods Pro and Bose QC45
  • Chair: DX Racer RV131
  • Smartphone: iPhone 12 Pro Max 256 GB
  • Smartwatch: Apple Watch Series 6

Desktop Apps

Google Chrome

My favorite browser for both dev and general use. I use quite a lot of extensions that are listed on the bottom of this page

Spark

My favorite mail app that I use on my macOS and iOS. Its a life changer!

Bear

Markdown note-taking app for my own articles, university stuff and just usual notes

Milanote

The note-taking app I use for projects. Highly recommended for brainstorming and mind maps

Figma

For mockups and designing web sites like this one for example

Telegram

My favorite messaging app that actually cares about the privacy aspect

Discord

For hanging out with developer communites and sometimes gaming communities

Slack

For client projects that are already on Slack

Trello

For keeping track of tasks where multiple people are working together

Insomnia

For making API requests and testing the APIs that I make

Rectangle

Resize macOS windows using shortcuts

Bartender

Cleans up my macOS's application bar

Sip

Simple and cool color picker for macOS

CleanShot

It has all of the things that are missing in the default macOS screenshot utility

Hand Mirror

A digital mirror before I go into those Zoom meetings

TextSniper

An OCR tool when copying isn't allowed

Homebrew

Package management for macOS

Tinkerwell

For debugging and testing out live PHP/Laravel code

VSCode

My favorite IDE for coding Javascript, Python and so on...

PHPStorm

My favorite IDE for coding PHP, Laravel and Vue applications

Authy

2FA manager that is cross-platform and secured with a password

Raycast

Raycast is one of my favorite Mac productivity tools. I was previously using Alfred

1Password

My favorite password manager so I don't have to remember them by heart

F-Bar

For managing the sites I have hosted via Laravel Forge

TablePlus

For managing all types of databases

Termius

SSH client that works both on my macOS and iOS

Chrome extensions

  • 1Password
  • Alpine.js devtools
  • Livewire devtools
  • React Developer Tools
  • Redux DevTools
  • Vue.js devtools
  • uBlock Origin
  • URL Incrementer
  • User-Agent Switcher for Chrome
  • Grammarly
  • Language Reactor
  • Teleparty
  • Windy (paid)