Marko Bajlovic

Multidisciplinary creative and full-stack developer

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Uses

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

Computers

Accessories

Computer Hardware

Audio

Miscellaneous Hardware

Windows 10/11 Software

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

Mac OS Software

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

Design

Development

  • Homebrew Cask Install and maintain apps through the command line.
  • Insomnia API explorer.
  • iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal.
  • Querious MySQL GUI tool.
  • MongoDB Compass MongoDB GUI tool.
  • Quiver Developer notebook.
  • 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.

Media

  • IINA The modern media player for macOS.
  • imageOptim Image compressor.

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 use version 7 still.
  • Alfred Launcher && Workflows && extended clipboard.
  • Bartender lets you organize your menu bar icons.
  • Dropbox Free personal storage.
  • GPT4All A free-to-use, locally running, privacy-aware chatbot. No GPU or internet required.
  • 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.
  • MidJourney AI art throught Discord.
  • Unarchiver Best archive utility/zip tool.

Communication

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.
  • 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.

Favorite Hugging Face Models

These are just some of the models I’ve been using lately or just favor in general having used it at one point in time. These are just some of them. This changes constantly as I’m learning more.

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.

  • Apple Music Stream 60 million songs ad-free, follow along and tap ahead as you listen with lyrics view, or download your favorite tracks and play them offline.
  • 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
  • Overcast Podcast player app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
  • Vox Well designed music player for Mac OS and iOS with Unlimited Music Cloud Storage. Supports all popular audio formats like MP3, FLAC, AAC, WAV && more.

DotFiles & Customizations

Public dotfiles I maintain for various applications and systems.

Application Customizations

  • firefox new tab Firefox New Tab as Local Webpage
  • 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

  • BabelJS Babel is a JavaScript compiler.
  • 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.
  • GatsbyJS Gatsby is a free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps.
  • Google Fonts Fonts CDN.
  • Hack Nerd Font Hack is a font specifically designed for source code.
  • GraphQL A query language for your API.
  • Netlify Quick and easy hosting.
  • PrismJS Syntax highlighting in code blocks.
  • 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.

Last updated: June 29, 2024