Iheanyi Ekechukwu
Find yours in the Settings dialog
Iheanyi Ekechukwu
Find yours in the Settings dialog
Howdy folks, it's Open Tab - a series of stories in which we put our "online detective" hat on and ask our brilliant Arc members very important questions, like "What are you working on?" and "What windows do you have up on your screen at 3 pm on a Tuesday?"
Today's guest, Iheanyi Ekechukwu, has got a collection of hats we can't possibly compete with. He is a Houston-based software engineer who's worked at DigitalOcean, Github, and is currently on the Surfaces team at PlanetScale building the best database for developers. He is an angel investor in seed and pre-seed founders building solutions in developer tooling, cloud, and infrastructure spaces. And in his free time, he is also a huge gamer, a music producer, a photographer, and one of Arc's biggest pals.
Another impressive collection Iheanyi has built over the years is one of handy tools that will make anyone feel like a 10x developer. So, if you or your colleague are looking for a productivity or a confidence boost, here is what to install:
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iTerm2 is a step up from iTerm and a replacement for your regular macOS Terminal. It's also the first thing Iheanyi installs on a new computer because, as he admitted himself, he practically lives in it.
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Homebrew, as de-facto package manager for macOS, is super useful for installing CLI software and is compatible with most open-source software.
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tmux in combination with tmux-continuum and tmux-resurrect is what Iheanyi uses to manage his terminal sessions. He's got each codebase he needs in its own tab and the plugins allow him to pick up right where he left off, even if his computer restarts.
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Besides stocking up on hats and apps, Iheanyi is also a huge password collector. Thankfully, 1Password has been his password manager for years and is yet to let him down.
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CleanShot X deserves an Arc member choice award at this point since it's yet another guest's go-to for taking screenshots and recording demos.
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Maybe a little cliché but Git (with GitHub) is where Iheanyi hosts all of his code, including his dotfiles for an easy new laptop setup. Maybe also a tiny bit biased based on his work history but we'll let it slide this one time.
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Neovim is a text editor with a variety of plugins that makes Iheanyi more productive.
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Quoting Iheanyi directly, "sometimes two heads is better than one when programming on the job and the best application to combine those heads is Tuple." It's got crazy-low CPU usage and ridiculously crisp audio and video.
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Raycast is a launcher for MacOS that permanently replaced Alfred on Iheanyi's computer as soon as he discovered it. It comes with plugins for a lot of the software he uses in his day-to-day and its design is unparalleled.
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Every CLI tool in this blog post that Iheanyi discovered on HackerNews one day and never looked back since.
You can also save Iheanyi's must-install list in this Arc Folder until the next time you feel like your setup needs a spruce up.