Uses | Eduar Bastidas

Software, tools and more

📝 VS Code Pretty sure it's taken over as the king of IDE's.
- Community Material Theme
- Previously Sublime Text
VS Code Extensions
Extensions I use to power up my productivity
Windows Terminal + Bash: A good, highly customizable console that includes many unix commands out of the box.
🤖 Claude Code An agentic coding tool that lives in the terminal, reads the whole repository and takes the tedious parts of a task off my hands.
herdr A terminal workspace manager for AI coding agents, so I can keep several of them running on different projects at once.
Tinkerwell It is a great tool for quickly testing ideas or isolating a method for debugging, all within the context of a real application.

💾 TablePlus As my favorite database client, Database management made easy
🌏 Chrome My favorite browser for personal use and development/testing, but I'm also using Edge occasionally especially with this AI hype
Git Duh.
📬 Insomnia My favorite API client to create, share, test and document APIs
Navicat Premium I especially use Navicat to have a mental model of the database, to see the relationships between tables and to see the data in a more visual way.

📷 Google Meet For team meetings.
✉️ Telegram For talking with friends and colleagues, in groups of developers and so on. Primary means of communication
🎙️ Discord for gaming.
💬 Messenger for family.

🎵 Spotify I listen to music every day to reach a state of maximum concentration.
🗒 ClickUp To organize my work tasks with the whole team
🗒 Trello To create personal tasks and goals that I want to accomplish.
🗒 Jira To organize my work tasks with the whole team
🔎 Microsoft PowerToys It is a pack of tools that improve my productivity, it has tools like Alfred for mac, and a color picker that I use very often to select any color within my screen.
🎨 Figma To view designs created by customers.
🐛 Flare Flare is specifically built for Laravel error tracking. Think of Ignition—your local error page—in production. Track all your PHP and JavaScript errors in one place.
🎨 Adobe XD To view designs created by customers.

My system audio still revolves around a Genius SW-G2.1 1250 home theater. It survived the whole PC upgrade and I still have no reason to replace it.
I have a Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 (G95NC), a 57-inch Dual UHD 240Hz curved monitor. Two 4K panels with no bezel in the middle, so I usually split it in two or three.
It hangs from a BEWISER Heavy Duty Monitor Arm, which keeps the whole desk free underneath.
When I need to isolate myself I switch to a Razer Kraken V3 HyperSense, whose built-in mic also doubles as my microphone for calls.
I write with a Redragon K556 RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard with which I feel very comfortable while programming or playing.
To move the pointer I use a Razer Basilisk V3 with 26,000 dpi precision, so that I don't miss any of the few clicks I make with it while programming.
The keyboard and the mouse share a single Razer Strider Chroma hybrid mouse mat, which I think gives the desk a nice gaming touch.
Finally, the wall behind the desk is covered with Govee Glide Hexagon Light Panels Ultra RGBIC 3D wall lights. They sync with whatever is on screen, which is either great for immersion or a terrible idea at 2 AM.

My previous setup

The rig I used until 2025

A Sceptre 30-inch Curved Gaming Monitor Ultra Wide 200Hz, which I usually split in two or three depending on what I was doing.
An HP Gaming Headset H300 whenever I needed to concentrate.
A Razer Deathadder Elite with 16,000 dpi precision to move the pointer.
A Razer Goliathus Extended Chroma Gaming Mouse Mat big enough to hold the keyboard and the mouse on the same pad.