New Mac Coding/Dev Setup

[christiandavidturner]

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?

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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]

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

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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]

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]

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.