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Bitwarden password manager.

Useful workstation tools

Focus To-Do: Pomodoro is a very useful, full featured and multi platform task tracking application developped by « Super Element ». Available on Microsoft Store, iOS App Store and many other OS and devices.

Browsers

2025 news regarding browsers (Spotify podcast by Syntax)

Browser Rendering engine OS
Apple Safari Webkit iOS, iPadOS, macOS
Brave Chromium Android, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows
Chromium browser Chromium Linux (Ubunto) Debugging Chromium on Linux
Arc Dia Chromium BETA MacOS
Google Chrome, Chrome Canary Chromium Android, iOS/macOS, Windows
Opera Chromium
Microsoft Edge Chromium Android, iOS/macOS, Windows
Mozilla Firefox Gecko Android, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows
Zen Gecko

Playwright.dev : End-to-end testing for modern web apps on any modern browsers.

Front-end development

  1. NodeJS
  2. Cygwin
  3. Git and follow Git set-up instructions.
  4. Webpack or the older GulpJS
  5. Depending on the project:
    1. MAMP or WAMP for PHP & MySQL on localhost.
    2. Python
    3. Ruby
    4. Java(On macOS you should install Java via Homebrew)
  6. BrowserSync
    1. Use a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

Design tools

  1. Options for a live interactive mockup system:
    1. $ Figma app : Figma is a webapp for fast design interactive UI mockups. But it is also available as standalone app on your station allowing better notifications throughout the OS.
    2. $$ Affinity Designer standalone application (multi OS app) for designing UI mockups.
    3. $$$ Adobe Experience Design (XD) included in Adobe CC.
    4. $$$$ Axure for a wopping 5000 $/year licence.
  2. FontBase : Multi OS free font manager app.
  3. Gimp : Photo editing à la Photoshop.
  4. Pencil : Multi OS open-source GUI prototyping tool for ALL platforms.
  5. SkyFonts : To sync and manage Google Fonts on my work station.
  6. InkScape : Vertorial drawing app. Great for SVG files.
  7. Just Color Picker : Multi OS free app.
  8. Color Declination Picker : Online open-sourced Webapp from Mozilla Developer Network

If you need to Uninstall Adobe CC app on Windows you will need the official official Adobe CC Uninstaller

Brainstorming tools

  1. Microsoft Whiteboard
  2. Mindmeister : Collaborative online mind mapping.
  3. Miro Mind Map : Collaborative online mind mapping.
  4. Miro Whiteboard

Miro webapps tutorials on Youtube.

Content edition/integration

  1. LingvaNex : Free translation application for all OS.
  2. Typora.io : Markdown.md file editor FREE for all OS (Windows, Linux & BETA MacOS).
  3. PoEdit : Translation editor for .po files.
  4. Visual Studio Code : FREE source code editor from Microsoft.
  5. Webstorm : 120$/year (USD) source code editor from jetBrains.

Communicating with colleagues

  1. Slack.com by Salesforce.
  2. Teams by Microsoft.
  3. Comments within Figma

For macOS Mac

OS system tools

  1. Sensei : All in one Mac system overview + TRIM allow SSD disc maintenance.

Design tools on macOS

  1. Sketch App is the leader standalone applications on the market for designing UI mockups.

Content editing/integration on macOS

  1. Paste Plain Text

For Windows Win

OS system tools

  1. windirstat (Windows Directory Statistics) : A disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Windows OS.
  2. Windows Defender Antivirus : Previously known as Windows Security Essentials for older OS then Win10, this is on of the best (free and clean, without spam) antivirus available out there since at least the mid 20tens.
  3. WinMerge : Compare and merge ANY files, regardless of their origins.

Design tools on Windows

  1. NexusFont : Font manager.
  2. Pencil : Free open sourced wireframing app (for Windows).
  3. System Color Picker : Stand alone color picker.

Content edition/integration on Windows

  1. 7-zip : Compressing and uncompressing files.
  2. Agent Ransack : Search within files on your PC.
  3. Ant Renamer : Batch renaming files.
  4. System Color Picker : Floating color picker with magnafier.
  5. PickPic (or Greenshot) as screenshot capture and edit tool.

    Set file naming preference to format as %y-%m-%d_%hh%n — %s in order to get « 1999-12-31_23h59 — 59.png » as default file name so dates match MacOS format.

  6. Pure Text : Clean text formating from clipboard copied text contents.

Linux stuff on Windows

  1. Bash emulator that emulate the UX of Linux Terminal:
    1. Git Bash (MINGW64) included by default within the installer if Git for Windows.
    2. Optionals emulator
      1. cmder
      2. Git for Windows
  2. Windows Subsystem for Linux : This Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run Linux environments (including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications) directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine.
  3. WinPython : Running Python on Windows OS (7, 8 and 10)
  4. Wox launcher : Fast task launcher for Windows

Entertainment

  1. Netflix for Windows

Music streaming

  1. Deezer app for Windows
  2. Spotify app for Windows
  3. SoundCloud for Windows