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- Development Environment: lightweight editor + command line rather than one IDE: Sublime + iTerm [0]

- Hosting: Digital Ocean with Dokku (web applications) and server blocks (static website) [1]

- Application Development: React, React Router, Apollo, GraphQL, Express, PostgreSQL [2]

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/developer-setup/

- [1] https://github.com/rwieruch/fullstack-apollo-react-express-b...

- [2] https://www.robinwieruch.de/deploy-applications-digital-ocea...

You asked "my best", so, at home:

- Xubuntu 18.04 on older i7 with 16Gb RAM and SSD, with two fullHD monitors.

- Libreoffice and Modelio.org for the "architecture" tasks

- IntelliJ Ultimate with several plugins for all server-side jvm development

- postgresql for sql related needs

- couple of zshells on multitabbed multipanelled Terminator

- Firefox quantum with uBlock Origin for the browsing needs

- bitbucket for source control

- noise cancelling headphones.

( but at the day job, it's a buggy windows 10 with eclipse on a i5, single HD 1366x768 monitor, 8Gb RAM, HDD... the thing reboots for no reason twice a day. )

Why would you subject yourself to that?

paycheck... :/

- GNU/LINUX

- No heavy desktop environments

- Getting rid of using mouse, try to be fully compliant of using just keyboard.

- Use a tiling window manager {i3, awesome, bspwm, etc}. YMMV on which wm fits your needs best.

- Use vim-vixen on firefox or qutebrowser for vim bindings

- EMACS + EVIL Mode or Vim

- There are a bunch of Terminal Emulators.. I use terminator, but you could get away with something minimal like RXVT, URXVT, or ST.

>> EMACS + EVIL

Spacemacs is a very viable alternative.

Home office. Plenty of space, some nice bookshelves, view across open fields when I want to test my eyes, and quiet.

(Also a nice big monitor, and a “standing desk” built out of scrap but nice and solid).

This makes far more difference than the exact tools I’m using on a given project.

Sounds like paradise! I wish I had a setup like that. :/

Sadly, don’t get to spend all my working hours in that environment. It’s where I get a disproportionate amount of the actual work done, though!

Windows / Visual Studio for creating a web app and supporting services and Azure for hosting it. Git/Github for source control. Slack for communication. Octopus Deploy for CD. VSTS for CI.

As a data science intern, i use:

- Python on Pycharm for crawling, cleaning, and database related stuff.

- Jupyter lab for analyzing, visualizing, and reporting insights.

- Bitbucket for personal private projects.

- Gitlab for company related projects.

- Python 3 / Flask in Sublime for API development, services and scripting

- Vue in VS Code for front end

- DO Droplet for hosting, AWS S3/Cloudfront for static assets

Are you talking tech stack? I'm a big fan of Spring Boot 2 with Kotlin for backends and React with SSR via next.js for client-side.

Mac + IntelliJ for large projects, Sublime for one-off files.

Atom IDE on one screen and terminal + chrome on another screen

Qt creator for c++,

sublime for javascript, python and everything else.

gdb for debugging

mongodb for database

ec2 for hosting

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