Manfred Touron
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tools

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Gear

Softwares, Tools, and Services

  • Offline-first tools from this list
  • Code Hosting & Project Management
    • GitHub
    • GitLab, Jira when I’m forced :(
    • ~Waffle (R.I.P)~
    • My own tools: especially depviz
    • AirTable (synced thanks to depviz)
    • Netlify: for hosting (I try to limit all my hosting to static + lambda functions)
    • Docker (and Docker Hub): to manage all my projects (during dev, testing and prodution)
  • Internet Browsing
    • Firefox -> for convenient and privacy browsing
    • Brave -> for experimental, privacy and distributed web
    • Chrome -> for convenient and plugin-friendly browsing
    • Firefox Focus/Opera Touch -> for temporary sessions
  • Communication
    • Email to maximize the efficiency of providing an information while not interrupt people
    • Slack for long-term communities
    • SMS, Signal, Telegram or even phone calls, when I need to contact someone right now
  • Automate and link services
  • Networking
    • VPN
  • Bookmarking and Offline Reading
    • Pocket
      • I store what I want to read later (and without Internet connection)
      • I setup a zapier script that fills an Airtable doc + I wrote a script that reads that Airtable doc to create bookmark articles on my website
    • Kindle
  • Todolist management
    • Trello, linked with GitHub repos thanks to Unito
  • Development tools
    • Emacs
    • Docker Desktop
    • Postman
    • HackMD (collaborative & personal notes, documentation, synced with github)
  • Banking Accounts:
    • Bunq: Neo-Bank that supports shared accounts
    • Amex: linked with my Bunq Account, mainly used when I need to advance cash for a friend/company so I have the necessary delay to get reimbursed before the money leave my account + interesting rewards program
    • Paypal: for online payments
  • Cryptography
    • Encfs linked with per-file synchronization services (Google Drive, Dropbox, Git, …)
  • Fonts & Color Profiles

Browser Addons/Extensions

OS X

  • Trello
  • Docker for Mac
  • Encfs
  • Google Drive File Stream
  • Brave
  • Shimo VPN
  • Homebrew
  • Similar to Linux

iOS

  • 1Password
  • Airtable
  • Anaxi
  • Berty
  • Blink SSH
  • Brave
  • Chrome
  • Citymapper
  • Firefox
  • GitHawk
  • Gmail
  • Google Agenda
  • Google Drive
  • Google Maps
  • Google Photos
  • Onion Browser
  • Opera Touch
  • Photos
  • Pocket
  • PomoDoneApp
  • Spotify
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Working Copy
  • Zenly

Secondary devices (in folders):

  • Banking Accounts
  • Chat Accounts
  • MAO Apps
  • Shazam

Windows

See [/windows-10-setup](Windows 10 Setup)

Linux

  • docker
  • htop
  • encfs
  • assh
  • tmux

Hardwares

  • Computers
    • Macbook Laptops: my most comfortable working environment
    • Microsoft Laptops: for my windows/linux dev environments, especially useful when doing Open-Source projects and developing appliances
  • Phones and tablets
    • Only iOS mobile/tablet: I don’t trust other systems enough for now
    • Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard (for iPhone)
    • iPad Smart Keyboard
  • Cryptocurrencies
    • Ledger Nano X + Ledger Nano S as a backup

Offline-First

I like tools that doesn’t require internet to work;

Most of the mobile applications now have some offline-viewing mode; To make the app really offline-first, it needs to be able to also create content without having Internet connection.

Offline-first tools I use

  • Managing tasks:
    • I use Trello + Unito + GitHub issues to manage all my todo-lists
    • Details
      • Trello as the offline-first application to view and manage my todo-lists
      • Unito.io as a system that will synchronize my changes on Trello with other tools as GitHub Issues
  • Bookmarking & Reading:
    • Pocket
    • Kindle
  • Managing code:
    • Git is offline-first natively
    • To improve the chances of not being locked, it’s easy to develop a script that will fetch every cloned repos locally
      • Something like: for git in $(find . -name .git); do (cd $git/..; git fetch -a) &; done
  • Taking notes:
    • Apple Notes is magic but I try to leave it as it only works on Apple devices
    • Google Drive supports creating text, presentations, and spreedsheets
    • I’m still looking for a cool tool to create diagrams, especially on my phone

Offline-first for developers

  • CRDT
  • IPFS
  • Bluetooth Mesh Networking
  • Sidechain/Offchain related things on blockchains