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gifox: It's so easy to record a few seconds of screen and plop it into slack or wherever and it just works and loops and is as small as a gif can get. I had a hacky pipeline for this, but nowhere near as seamless, and I was pretty happy to buy a polished version.

tripmode: A bandwidth meter! When there isn't a pandemic going on, I work on a lot of different networks, including tethered to my phone. Sometimes I want to be sure I'm not accidentally downloading gigs of docker images or system updates or whatever. You can monitor and set limits, even per app!

better touch tool: There's a lot here, and it can be kinda overwhelming. I use it for three distinct purposes.

  • Bought this originally to remote control my macos laptop from my iphone. I'd hdmi the laptop to the tv, and then use my phone as a remote control.
  • Now my work laptop has a touchbar, and I use btt to customize it pretty heavily. Not, personally, that's a lot of work; I use the GoldenChaos-BTT presets.
  • Other people have mentioned magnet, and btt has these features built in! For a while I actually didn't know it was a btt feature. I was pairing with a coworker on their machine, and was very confused when I tried to grid and resize windows by dragging them around.

krisp: I remember the day I bought it. It was supposed to be a no-meeting heads down coding day. I biked to a coffee shop with a huge windy patio and a coloured slat art installation that rattles with the wind. And I forgot my headphones. And then an urgent call came up. I downloaded the trial. I kept the volume low and talked kinda quiet. There was hardly anyone else nearby, but still, trying to minimize my breach of etiquette. The call was fine. I experimented at the end turning it off and back on and everyone was shocked at the difference.