Tools Ryan uses

Equipment

• I use a 15-inch 2017 MacBook Pro, Magic Mouse, and Magic Keyboard. My laptop sits on the mStand by Rain Design.
• My mic is a Rode Podcaster. It sits in the Rode PSM1 Shock Mount, attached to the Rode PSA1 Boom Arm.
• I sit for way too long in a Herman Miller Aeron Size B. A good chair is something I don't compromise on.
• My light is an Elgato Key Light. Pictured is a Neewer CN-160 but I have since upgraded.
• My second screen is a Dell UltraSharp U2715H 27-Inch. It's alright.
• My mouse / desk pad is the SteelSeries QcK Gaming Surface - XXL Thick Cloth.
• For gaming, I use a DREVO Excalibur 84-Key Cherry MX.
• My desk is a Varidesk 60" Electric standing desk.

Coding and design tools

• I use VSCode with the Gruvbox Theme for writing code.
• My preferred terminal is iTerm2 with Itermocil.
• Figma has fundamentally changed the way I design on teams.

Productivity Apps

• I take notes using Notion.
• CloudApp helps me visually communicate what's on my screen.
• Postman has provided a lot of value to my teams and I when creating APIs.
• IconJar helps me keep my SVG assets organized.
• Vanilla - "Hide menu bar icons on your Mac."
• FontPlop - "fontplop is an OSX/macOS application which takes ttf and otf files and outputs a webfont bundle"