Tiffany White's Mac and iOS Development Setup – The Sweet Setup

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My name is Tiffany White, and I am a frontend software developer and course instructor. I also write my own blog that focuses on software development.

Since I do a lot a video conferencing and course creation, I have an external webcam, a mic, and a fill light (which I didn’t list here). I have the main iMac desktop and my second monitor by LG that serves as a holding place for multiple terminals, my task manager, calendar, and other things.

I keep most of the wallpapers I use in a Dropbox folder for easy access.

I use VS Code for all my dev work; it may be an electron app, but it runs super smooth and is really fast. It’s a Microsoft product as well, which is even more surprising because it works so well on the Mac.

I use Things as my task manager. I’ve tried OmniFocus, Todoist, and 2Do in the past, but nothing has stuck with me like Things. Its simpler UI has made actually looking at my task manager a pleasure and not overwhelming.

I use Fantastical 2 as my calendar because the natural language input is superior to anything else.

I’d like to add more home automation, a longer desk top with distressed wood, and another ALEX drawer from IKEA. I also collect headphones, so I’d like to have room for a bigger rack to store them.

I have a Gold iPhone XS Max with 256GB of space.

I keep most of the wallpapers I use in a Dropbox folder for easy access.

For me, this is easily Drafts. Everything I do starts there, whether adding tasks to Things, adding a random journal entry to Day One — it all gets written here.

I have a 3rd generation 12.9″ iPad Pro with 256GB of space in Silver.

I keep most of the wallpapers I use in a Dropbox folder for easy access.

I mainly use it to watch YouTube and write blog posts. I also manage email, write journal entries in Drafts to send over to Day One, do a weekly review on Things, and sometimes edit photos from my Canon in several different apps.

Working Copy for sure. I only make quick edits to my code, but I do most of my blogging on the iPad. It’s all hooked up to GitHub and once I push a blog post up to GitHub it gets deployed to Netlify, a “serverless” host. I don’t need my Mac to do any of that; Working Copy is a more than capable client on iOS. It’s quite nerdy for sure and niche, but it is vital to me.

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