marko bajlovic

Uses

Based on uses.tech, this page is a showcase of my favorite tools, software, hardware and other recommended resources.

Welcome; this page is largely an index of hardware, then software, and general recommendations and what I use professionally (and personally).

Computers

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro

Razer Blade 15

  • New Blade 15 - Black
  • Windows 11 Home – 64 bit (yuck)
  • 1.8GHz 14-core Intel i7-12800H processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, with 24MB of Cache
  • 16 GB DDR5 4800MHz dual-channel memory
  • 1TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4)
  • 15.6" QHD 240Hz, 100% DCI-P3, G-Sync, 2.5ms, individually factory calibrated
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3060 (6GB GDDR6 VRAM)

Custom Built PC

Others

Hardware

Audio

Miscellaneous

Software

Windows

The following is a short list, broken up by category, of all the graphic interface applications on my PC. I really only game and work on 3D graphics and animations on my PC.

Design

  • Unreal Engine 5 The world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

Utility

  • AutoHotKey Keybinds and more.
  • Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility This utility is a compilation of Windows tasks I perform on each Windows system I use. It is meant to streamline installs, debloat with tweaks, troubleshoot with config, and fix Windows updates. I am extremely picky about any contributions to keep this project clean and efficient.
  • Ditto Clipboard manager.
  • Powertoys Useful features like window snapping.

Mac OS

The following is a detailed list, broken up by category, of all the graphic interface applications on my Mac OS machine.

Development

  • FireCamp Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.
  • Homebrew Cask Install and maintain apps through the command line.
  • kitty The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.
  • Obsidian Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.
  • Querious MySQL GUI tool.
  • MongoDB Compass MongoDB GUI tool.
  • Sublime Merge Diff tool.
  • Transmit The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps just drove into the future.
  • VirtualBox Virtual Machines.
  • Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
    • Supermaven The fastest copilot. Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI.
  • Zed Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source.
    • Supermaven The fastest copilot. Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI.

Media

Web

  • Firefox Developer Edition Web browser. The latest features, fast performance, and the development tools you need to build for the open web.
  • ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependencies on Google web services.

Utility

  • 1Password Password manager. I don't use the electron version 8 app though.
  • AltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.
  • Alfred Launcher && Workflows && extended clipboard.
  • Dropbox Dropbox is a one place to keep your files synced across all your devices.
  • GPT4All A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required.
  • Ice Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
  • Little Snitch is a host-based application firewall for macOS. It can be used to monitor applications, preventing or permitting them to connect to attached networks through advanced rules.
  • Unarchiver The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It’s times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats.

Communication

  • Discord Gaming-focused related messaging but honestly, best video, audio, screen sharing application.
    • Vencord The cutest Discord client mod.
  • Mimestream Really fast email. Designed for Gmail.
  • Slack Work related messaging.

Linux Software

I didn't include everything as many applications I use on Mac OS, I also use on Linux.

  • Dolphin is a lightweight file manager.
  • KDE plasma Desktop.
  • konsole Terminal Emulator.
  • krunner is a quick launcher.
  • kwin The reliable and flexible window manager for KDE Plasma.
  • krohnkite A dynamic tiling extension for KWin.

Command Line (Mac OS && Linux)

These are command lines tools that I largely use on both Linux and Mac OS.

  • bat Syntax highlighting in terminal output.
  • btop A monitor of resources
  • brew Install things the correct way on Mac OS.
  • eza A modern, maintained replacement for ls.
  • fd A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’.
  • ffmpeg A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
  • fzf A command-line fuzzy finder.
  • gifsicle Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  • httpie is a command line HTTP client that will make you smile.
  • jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
  • mackup mackup Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux). Dotfile manager.
  • mdcat cat, but for Markdown.
  • mpv video player for command line.
  • ncdu Check disk usage with NCurses.
  • nvm Version manager for node.js.
  • ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern.
  • tig Text-mode interface for git.
  • vim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text.
  • yabai A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
  • yt-dlp yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.
  • z Tracks your most used directories.
  • zsh Terminal shell.

Hosting & Registrars

  • Digital Ocean Great hosting for great prices.
  • Name.com DNS && domain Registrar.
  • Netlify Quick and easy hosting.
  • Surge.sh Static web publishing for Front-End Developers.
  • Vercel Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Audio & Video

I listen to a lot of music and podcasts, so I have a few apps I use to manage and listen to them. I may rotate these out over time.

  • cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player.
  • cmusfm Last.fm standalone scrobbler for the cmus music player.
  • Last.fm Been tracking my listens since 2008
  • YouTube Music With a YouTube Music Premium plan, Background Play is on by default on the YouTube Music app. This means if you're listening to music or watching a music video and you close your screen or exit the app, your music will keep playing in the background until you pause it.

DotFiles & Customizations

Public dotfiles I maintain for various applications and systems. I've since moved to using a dotfiles manager to handle version control for all my configurations, but I'll leave the links for reference.

Application Customizations

  • startyparty addon The start of it all; the addon.
  • startyparty The start of it all. startyparty is a dynamic start page extension for your browser, incorporating the latest articles, media, tech, games, features and content.

Install Guide

This is a fairly thorough guide I maintain for setting up new Mac OS based computers.

This Site's Dev Stack

  • Blue Sky Flutter Icon an animated icon for your Bluesky profile link by Phil Hawksworth.
  • ESLint ESLint statically analyzes your code to quickly find problems. ESLint is built into most text editors and you can run ESLint as part of your continuous integration pipeline.
  • Hack Nerd Font Hack is a font specifically designed for source code.
  • Manrope Font Manrope Manrope is an open-source modern sans-serif font family, designed by Mikhail Sharanda in 2018. In 2019, Mirko Velimirovic worked with Mikhail Sharanda to convert Manrope into a variable font.
  • MDX MDX is Markdown for the component era. It lets you write JSX embedded inside Markdown.
  • NextJS Next.js is a React framework from Vercel that makes it easy to build server-side rendered React applications.
  • React A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  • Sass Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world.
  • Remark markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective.
  • Tailwind CSS Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
  • Typescript TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
  • Vercel Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Last updated: October 27, 2024

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