What’s in the toolbox?
Catch up on my recent absence from blogging and learn about the highlights, including the release of Docker 1.0, CentOS 7, updates to the site's theme, and new music releases. Plus, explore my blog post on multi-factor authentication in AWS.
Russ McKendrick · · 2 min read
It’s been a while since I listed what I am using day-to-day so I thought I would do a quick update;
Desktop Apps
- SublimeText - Text Editor
- GitHub Mac Client - The Mac GitHub client
- Marked2 - Preview Markdown in real-time
- Photoshop - For ermmmmm Photos
- OmniGraffle - For diagrams and stuff
- 1Password - Locking all my passwords away
- Reeder 2 - For reading all my newsfeeds
Commandline Apps
- Home Brew - Install “missing” stuff on macs
- Cask - Install Mac Apps using the command line using Brew
- StormSSH - Key & hosts management
- known_hosts - A simple cli known hosts manager
- Packer - Build machine images
- Z - Jump around the CLI
- Jekyll - What this blog is published with
Server Stack
- CentOS 7 - The Base OS
- Puppet - Configuration Management
- SaltStack - Infrastructure management
- Docker - Run Linux containers
- New Relic - Server Monitoring
Services
- Digital Ocean - Server Hosting
- AWS - Server Hosting
- CloudFlare - CDN & Stuff
- Github - Code Hosting
- Pinboard - Bookmarks
- EverNote - Note taking
- RememberTheMilk - Task management
- Feedly - For managing all the newsfeeds
- Pocket - For reading articles later
The biggest change since the last update is …..
- Google Chrome - After being a hardcore Safari user I have finally made the switch to Chrome, though this may change again with the release of Yosemite.
