Bookmarks

Here are links to tools or websites that I'm using on daily basis. It's more like a "love letter to myself" because I usually forget to backup my bookmarks and I lose them.

VSCodium

My favourite code editor at the moment. I was a big supporter of PhpStorm but it's slow, it's expensive and it's only for PHP development. VSCodium is Open Source and it's just like VSCode, but it doesn't track you and it doesn't send any metrics to Microsoft. VSCodium can be fully configured, it's versatile and fast. https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Sequel Ace

Website: https://sequel-ace.com

Have you ever used SequelPro? You know, that MySQL client where you could edit database records, import and export data, etc.? It was great. I loved it! Then it was discontinued, so we all switched to TablePlus. TablePlus is fine, but you need to pay for it.

I recently discovered that the old Sequel Pro is now renamed to Sequel Ace and it's in active development! Really great MySQL and MariaDB client for macOS. I really like it. Give it a go! It's free and it's open source: https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

Sublime Text URL Handler

Website: https://github.com/inopinatus/sublime_url

Very handy tiny tool for developers on macOS who use Sublime Text to code. This tool/app will register a handle for all subl:// links in browser and such links will be automatically opened in Sublime Text. Nice extra when you're dealing with error pages in Laravel and you want to click and go directly to the line where an error occurred.

Fathom Analytics (safe alternative to Google Analytics)

Website https://usefathom.com

GDPR compliant website analytics tool. Perfect alternative to Google Analytics. They don't track users, don't place any cookies and you don't even have to show cookie notice on your website - it's that safe! Maybe Fathom Analytics doesn't have as many features as Google Analytics but I would always put customer satisfaction and privacy higher on my list than some statistics.

As for features you can see how many visitors you've had, from which countries, devices and which browsers. You can see the number of views, bounce rate, average time on site, referrers, detail visits per page. You can also generate campaigns and events, so for example you can track clicking on a button on your website.

Forget about Google and leave them behind. Switch to Fathom Analytics and show that you care about your end users.

Favicon Generator

Website: https://realfavicongenerator.net

The best favicon generator that has a nice interface, asks all important questions and then generates favicons for all systems and browsers. Generates ico, png icons for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, etc. You can also select background colour for tiles.

TinyPNG

Website: https://tinypng.com

Minify and optimise all your JPG, PNG and WebP files. Never ask visitors on your website to download large image files when they don't have to. This is extremely important tool - images can be 50%-80% smaller than original!

SvgOMG

Website: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

Amazing tool for your SVGs! You can optimise them, minify, remove attributes or switch from CSS to atribute-value sets.

Cocoa REST Client

Website: https://mmattozzi.github.io/cocoa-rest-client/

Simple REST client allowing you to make GET, POST, PUT, PATCH requests to any server and API endpoint. I like it because it's simple, unlike bloated Postman or Insomnia.

Rectangle

Website: https://rectangleapp.com

Enhanced move and resize windows app on macOS. Really helpful when I'm coding on my laptop and have to organise many windows on little screen.

RedQuits

Website: http://www.carsten-mielke.com/redquits.html

Simple macOS app allowing me to fully close windows when I click on red dot in top left corner of the window. By default macOS will keep an app open in the background and RedQuits makes sure it doesn't.

KeyboardCleanTool

Website: https://folivora.ai/keyboardcleantool/

Another simple but very helpful app - allows you to clean your laptop's keyboard while it is blocking input from keys. It's only an Mac issue and Windows users generally don't understand it.

AppCleaner

Website: https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

Small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. It makes sure that all files are removed from your drive.

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