software development

As I thought about the question and prepared my answer, I noticed something about the response I was going to give. If you had asked me this question earlier in my career I would have said something such as testing your code, building applications in a specific architecture, or building a highly scalable fault-tolerant widget. While these still hold true, they aren’t the first things that come to my mind when I think about software now....

I would consider these tools critical to my day-to-day development and if I couldn’t use them it would be difficult for me to adjust to a new workflow. So while there may be tools that I use on a day to day (something like slack) I didn’t consider those for this list. iTerm2 As a macOS user, the first thing I always install as a part of my developing tooling is iTerm2....