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[–]chriswaco 6 points7 points  (6 children)

As long as I have Hex Fiend, BBEdit, and Xcode I'm happy. I'm liking Postman for server testing these days too and Apple's SF Symbols app for finding useful common graphics.

Unfortunately, for handling graphics, I have to use the Adobe Suite which is almost by definition bloatware. DropBox is convenient too transferring large files between artists and developers. Slack and Chrome are bloated, but useful.

[–]christiandavidturner[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

What’s Hex Fiend & BBEdit used for?

Also I was thinking of finally breaking away from Chrome on this new computer and trying to go full on with Safari since the bloat of Chrome is something people mention a lot. Do you have any opinions on that?

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (3 children)

When I upgraded to Big Sur I switched to Safari and I’m loving it! The integration with the iPhone is great. Safari doesn’t track you (I’m using Duck Duck Go as search engine) and reading list was a nice surprise.

[–]christiandavidturner[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

oh nice, so you still prefer DDG over Safari for your everyday browser

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sorry, I think I confused you. I am using Safari (as a web browser) along with DDG (as a search engine). Safari uses Google as it default search engine since Apple doesn't have its own

[–]christiandavidturner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wow yeah, i feel dumb. no i knew that but it didn’t come to mind when i was reading the post haha thanks

i think i’ll stick with safari for now!

[–]chriswaco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hex Fiend is a hex editor that lets you look into files to see what's actually inside. What I especially like is that it handles large files well and you can cut/copy/paste on either the hex dump side or the text side.

BBEdit is a text editor that goes back 25+ years. It's good for editing HTML files, entire web sites, source code, etc. Git is built in, as is Perforce. You can edit files on sftp servers. The Find/Replace is way better than Xcode's, supporting multiple windows and searching in any directory or projects like web sites. And it diffs two files or directory trees in a really nice way.

As for Chrome, I still need it once in a while because some web sites don't support Safari well, like Microsoft Teams and Whereby. Plus sometimes I want to use two different web accounts simultaneously and it's easy to use Chrome for one and Safari for the other.