My Development Setup in 2024

It’s 6:00 pm on Labor Day in Austin, Texas and I thought about how much I love writing ideas to avoid forgetting them.

The worst return on the investment for any software engineer might be the time to set up and configure their tools. We spend countless hours researching, testing, configuring, and tweaking new tools. It’s part of the trade as we call it, we don’t mind wasting a few hours on a tool that will save us a few seconds.

It doesn’t make any economic sense, but we do it anyway. It fills our intellectual ego with pride. So, here I am sharing the tools I’m using right now:

Terminal: I used plenty of them, tried the GPU acceleration and all sorts of black magic, and in the end the one I liked the most is Tabby, which you can install with:

brew install --cask tabby

Terminal Tools: I’m into trying to use the terminal as much as I can, and I found these two tools pretty useful for me:

brew install lazygit lazydocker

Theme: This is where I’ve probably spent most of my time. I chose the “Roboto Mono Nerd Font” and the “Relaxed” theme for the Tabby and Visual Studio Code:

brew install --cask font-roboto-mono-nerd-font 

Bonus: I’m testing out alternatives to Visual Studio Code. I was testing out Zed and I wanted to give it a try to neovim with lazyvim:

brew install neovim ripgrep

To me, simplicity will triumph over complexity all day long.