Hey there, I’m Juanito living in Japan. This is a living document of what I use. The permanent url of this page is https://juanitofatas.com/use.

For hardware, please see my Hardware page.

Gear

• Sleep Mask—Good night sleep is the best. Testimonials 1, 2, 3.
• Away Luggage—So easy to roll.
• Trtl Travel Pillow
• Dyson—To clean up room faster
• Bialetti Moka pot to make Italian coffee

Apps

• Fastmail for custom email with privacy
• Telegram for messaging with privacy
• 1Password
• iTerm2
• Firefox > Safari > Chrome
• Alfred—To navigate between apps (and turn off spotlight)
• Spectacle to resize windows
• GitHub desktop—To preview changes
• Homebrew—To install softwares
• Sublime Text 3—To write code and text. with Sarah Drasner’s Night Owl theme, and Oxygen Mono font
• TotalFinder for cut and tabs
• WiFi Signal—To know how good my WiFi is.
• VLC & IINA to watch videos
• Gifski for converting screenrecording into gif
• Bear for general notes and writing when I’m out.
• Karabiner-Elements to quickly switch between English and Japanese.
• TotalFinder
  • download and install
  • restart to recovery mode (hold ⌘R)
  • $ csrutil disable
  • restart
  • restart to recovery mode (hold ⌘R)
  • $ csrutil enable
• MonitorControl—Control your external monitor brightness & volume

CLIs

• Oh My Zsh
• jq — to play with JSON responses
• httpie — cURL for humans
• Ripgrep — rg is a faster grep
• TextQL — Execute SQL for CSV
• Overmind — To run multiple processes
• m-cli — to control macOS’s apps

Mobile Apps

• Telegram for messaging
• Halide for taking raw photos
• Darkroom for editing photos (I’m not good, send me tips please!)
• Overcast for listening to Podcasts

Japan-specific

• Japanese app for looking up Japanese
• Japan Taxi for taxis in Japan (8EF324 ¥500 off)
• Suica for transportations in Japan
• TangoRisto for reading Japanese news
• ‎乗換案内 for going from A to B in Japan
• Tabelog for finding food in Japan

SNS

• Twitter: @JuanitoFatas
• I dont use Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin.

Services

• Calendly when I need to schedule meeting with someone
• Chatterbug (my referral link) for learning Spanish, French, or German.
• DNSimple (my referral link) to manage domains, DNS for services
• Dropbox (my referral link) for serving assets on my site and backing up personal data
• GitHub to host source code of projects
• Heroku to run this site and other projects
• Netflix for movies and shows
• Spotify for music
• YouTube Premium for learning (almost anything)
• TransferWise for sending/receiving money My referral link

I also found as you become more proficient at these, you use less and less stuff.

That’s all for now. Thanks!

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This "uses page" built in the style pioneered by Wes Bos. You can find more like this on /uses and uses this.