# Resources

# What is this?

Every now and then, I find something interesting that I want to share.

# Web and Application Development

# Software

• Sublime Text -- This has been my go-to code editor for the past 10yrs. I am sticking with v3 for a little while.
• Navicat -- This has been my go-to database client for the past few years. It's just kind of expensive
• TablePlus -- Great budget alternative to Navicat
• Docker -- Good alternative to Vagrant or Valet
• Postman -- API client that is pretty good when building out your back-end
• MacDown -- My go-to markdown editor
• Duet -- How I use my iPad as a second monitor for work (Yes, I know that Sidecar exists)

# Hardware

• Macbook Pro -- It is what I use for both my job and my side work
• Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Mouse -- Ergonomics is super important in this field

# Services

• Saucelabs -- Allows you to test against a lot of browsers / operating systems through your browser
• Render -- How I host a lot of my stuff
• Heroku
• Mailtrap -- Great for testing how emails go out, in your development environment
• Github -- I know that a lot of people like Gitlab but there are more people on Github
• Cloudflare -- A freemium reverse proxy service that does a lot to protect your websites
• IFTTT -- Good for connecting services like twitter, RSS feeds, wordpress, etc together
• Jetpack -- Running wordpress? You would be stupid to not use this.

# Learning Resources

• MilwaukeeJS
• That Conference
• Milwaukee Code Camp
• freeCodeCamp
• Laracasts -- A great resource if you are a lavavel developer
• Pluralsight
• Oh Shit, Git!?!
• Hacker News -- Good for figuring out what's happening in the industry

# Icons

• Font Awesome -- Get the pro service. It is worth it.
• Flaticon
• Avataaars Generator -- A web tool to generate avatars
• 700+ Open-source CSS Icons

# Fonts

• Google Fonts

# Photos

• Unsplash -- A good colection of free stock photos
• Coverr -- A good colection of free stock video

# CSS Resources

• Animista

# Productivity

• Coffitivity
• Duet -- I use this daily during quarantine from home
• Yorkshire Red -- I think that I prefer it over Yorkshire Gold

# Random Useful Projects

• CORS Anywhere -- It acts as a reverse proxy and adds CORS headers to the proxied request

# Random Interests

# Hardware

• Pinebook Pro -- I have the non-pro version of this
• Pinephone -- I've been super tempted by this thing.

# Services

• Google Fi -- It's great because you can get 10 free data sims

# Learning Resources

• ITProTV -- I bought a year of this buring a black friday sale, a while back. It's nice.

# Pets

• Bivvy (Pet Insurance) -- It costs $10/pet/month and is seriously a game-changer.

# Travel Hacking

• Scott's Cheap Flights -- Tell them where you want to travel from and to and they will shoot you an email when there is a cheap price on airfare
• FareDrop -- Very similar to Scott's, above
• Skyscanner -- Skyscanner is a search engine for airfare instead of a notification service. It lets you browse destinations and dates to find the best price.
• Momondo -- Very similar to Skyscanner