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Date Published
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Erin Dame
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1091
Language
English
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None

Summary

Steve Winton, a Partner Engineer at GitHub, shares his tools and workflow that help him manage his day-to-day tasks as a remote employee. He relies on various communication tools like GitHub Issues for internal discussions, Slack for quick conversations with his team, Zoom for video conferencing, LICEcap for screen recording, and Keynote for creating visual aids. For productivity, he uses Bear for note-taking and list-making, which syncs across devices and is Markdown friendly. He also utilizes Alfred Workflows to simplify his work with GitHub, Insomnia as an API client for understanding and organizing APIs, and Visual Studio Code for writing code. Steve values the consistency that spaces bring in his coding environment, finding it helpful when sharing code snippets.