Recommendation for Software Engineer/Developer and Software architect apps?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/macapps

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  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

  • A good text editor. There are many, take your pick. For example BBEdit, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code…

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • A good text editor. There are many, take your pick. For example BBEdit, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  • Homebrew of course.

  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

  • iTermiTerm a better Terminal, paired with Oh My Zsh and Powerlevel10k

  • postman-app-support

    Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

  • Insomnia or Postman for testing APIs

  • TablePlus

    TablePlus macOS issue tracker

  • TablePlus for multiple databases or Postico just for Postgres

  • powerlevel10k

    A Zsh theme

  • iTermiTerm a better Terminal, paired with Oh My Zsh and Powerlevel10k

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • iTerm2

    iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

  • iTermiTerm a better Terminal, paired with Oh My Zsh and Powerlevel10k

  • insomnia

    The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

  • Insomnia or Postman for testing APIs

  • Postico

    Public issue tracking for Postico

  • TablePlus for multiple databases or Postico just for Postgres

  • Boop

    A scriptable scratchpad for developers. In slow yet steady progress.

  • in addition to what's already mentioned, https://github.com/IvanMathy/Boop to convert and format things instead of googling for a converter every time

  • CodeEdit

    CodeEdit App for macOS – Elevate your code editing experience. Open source, free forever.

  • Not OP, but there’s this project.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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