How I Work (October 2018 Edition)
Written by Taylor Otwell
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on Oct. 29, 2018
I’ve seen a few people share their work setups / processes lately, so I thought I would do the same!
Office
Here is a photo of what my office looks like today. I need a tidy space to be in the right mindset to get work done ? … features Phillips Hue lighting, 4K TV, Mini Ping Pong Table, Stereo Pair HomePods, 5k iMac…
Machines
5k iMac (4Ghz i7), 16GB RAM, 512GB Flash Storage.
I really love my 5k iMac. The display alone is worth $1,000, and the computer itself is still fast enough to easily handle everything I need to do.
When traveling or working outside of the house, I use a 2017 Retina MacBook Pro with TouchBar. I honestly like this machine quite a bit even though it’s gotten some negative reviews. I’ve gotten more used to the keyboard with time and the TouchBar doesn’t bother me. The screen is amazing.
If I need to use Windows, I have a Surface Book 2.
I use an iPhone XS Max as my primary phone.
Editor
I use SublimeText 3 as my primary editor. I pair it with the Inspired GitHub color scheme, Operator Mono font, SublimeLinter, and a handful of keyboard short-cuts to run PHPUnit tests (https://github.com/adamwathan/sublime-phpunit). I also make heavy use of Sublime’s “project” features and the Cmd+Shift+P short-cut to quick-switch between projects.
Terminal
I use iTerm2 as my terminal. I use oh-my-zsh’s default command prompt combined with the “Arthur” color scheme:
Todo
I use Todoist a lot. All day, every day. I primarily sit on the “Today” view and delegate tasks from there. I use the “smart date” parsing when scheduling tasks to quickly assign tasks a given date / time:
Environment
I use Laravel Valet to configure my Nginx / PHP environment. The speed and ease-of-use is hard to beat. If I need to run a project within Docker (typically when using Windows), I like to use Vessel.
Communication
I primarily use Telegram and Discord for communication. I’ve managed to get my entire family on Telegram ? and most of my Laravel communication these days takes place on the official Laravel Discord server.
Music
For headphones, I primarily use my AirPods but I love the Bose QC35 when traveling or when I need to drown out some noise.
I use Spotify for music streaming, and primarily listen to deep / prog house electronic and rap. If you want to get a feel for what I might be listening to on any given workday, check out these playlists:
Misc
Here are some other applications I use a lot:
- Alfred (Snippets + Clipboard History)
- Bear (Cloud Synced Notes)
- Calendar.app (Default Mac Calendar Client)
- Dropbox (Cloud File Storage)
- Encrypt.me (VPN)
- Mail.app (Default Mac Mail Client)
- SequelPro (Database Admin)
- Spectacle (Window Management)
- Spotlight (Default Mac Quick-Search)
- Trello (Laravel Employee Collaboration)