Hasty Treat - Desktop Apps + New Tech We Love
Sep 27, 2021•33 min
Episode description
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the hottest new tech they love!
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Show Notes 03:30 - Lucy Language
https://lucylang.org/
A concise language for describing Finite State Machines
06:10 - MDSvex
https://github.com/pngwn/MDsveX
Mdx for Svelte
Smartypants options transforms ASCII punctuation into fancy typographic punctuation HTML entities
https://github.com/rehypejs/awesome-rehype
09:56 - RECut
https://getrecut.com/
12:26 - Fig
https://fig.io/
It’s an app you install on your computer, it adds autocomplete to your terminal
Works with most popular terminals
Autocompletes git commands
NPM commands + tons more - npm install ___ works
Adds descriptions of what each command does
Mac only - again another reason why Mac is best!
Themeable
Why not use Fish/ZSH? This isn’t a replacement for anything, it’s just autocomplete on top
These fish plugins are to vim, as Fig is to VS Code
Better UI is KEY
15:56 - Warp
https://www.warp.dev/
Rust-based termnial
Very fast
Extensions and themes
Share commands and sessions
Great for remote server dev
Share terminal state - with share links
19:33 - Raycast
https://www.raycast.com/
App launcher
File Finder
Workflow runner
Everyone is asking why is it better than Alfred
better UI
Better outputs math
Better defaults - currency conversion
Fast as hell
Better integrations
More Flexible
21:26 - Table Plus
https://tableplus.com/
Fantastic little DB tool
23:59 - Obsidian Update
https://obsidian.md/
Wes: I haven’t got into it - find myself still going back to VS Code
26:50 - Descript Update
https://www.descript.com/
All-in-one audio and video editing, like a doc
Links https://chriscoyier.net/
https://hyper.is/
https://www.alfredapp.com/
https://strapi.io/
https://studio3t.com/
https://www.mindnode.com/
https://remarkable.com/
https://www.notion.so/
https://joplinapp.org/
http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
https://shinywhitebox.com/
Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram
LevelUpTutorials Instagram
Wes’ Instagram
Wes’ Twitter
Wes’ Facebook
Scott’s Twitter
Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
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