And how to make your environment, tools, and setup work for you, not against you.

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Discover 6 tools that can simplify daily work routines and enrich the tools used by software engineers. Make your environment, tools, and setup work for you, not against you.

6 tools that made my life much easier as a Software Engineer

A Rectangle alternative is Magnet. And an Amphetamine alternative is Moom. Tools like Lunar annoy me, I turn that stuff off. Maccy solves an issue I don’t typically have. I used to use Grammarly, but don’t need it as a dev, however, I can appreciate the author’s use-case.
Refined GitHub I will have to look into… But at this point, I’m pretty used to GH’s quirks. 😂

Is anyone going to point out how much of a pun it is to state that “Amphetamine made my life much easier”? 😄

Not a long list if you don’t use a Mac tho

You have a rly “difficult” job if these “tools” make your life easier 😂😂😂

If you haven’t heard of <a href="https://www.raycast.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Raycast</a> you can arrange windows, keep a clipboard history, and many many more actions.
If you’re looking for an excellent monitor brightness application, I suggest using <a href="https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl#readme" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">MonitorControl</a>
I also utilize quite a few other tools like <a href="https://getpixelsnap.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">PixelSnap 2</a> &amp; <a href="https://cleanshot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">CleanShot X</a>. You can find a lot of great helpful tools and apps from sites like <a href="https://setapp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">SetApp</a> and <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Product Hunt</a>