Day 1: Work Environment

My desk is where I spend most of my waking hours, and as such it tends to accumulate lots of "stuff". My desk was also my SocialDrizzle work space for over 9 months. In the spirit of spring cleaning, my work space is now clutter free and absent are all the sticky notes and notepads full of reminders of work to be done on a dead product.

My computer situation also needed some attention. As I was spending every waking hour getting stuff done, my file systems were in disarray, npm permissions fubar'd, and sublime text lagged when scrolling. (Lame!) So today I reinstalled Yosemite on my 13in Mac Book Air and set it up to hack on StatBot.

Some of the things I've installed are:

• Sublime Text 3 - This has been my text editor of choice for years. I switched to atom on my linux install, enjoy it, and may one day change loyalties, but for the sake of my productivity I am staying true to my first love.
• Node.js & NPM - Runtime environment and package manager.
• n - For managing node.js versions
• github for mac & command line tools - Git is my DVCS of choice and while the CLI works fine, Github's mac client is a thing of beauty and increases my productivity.
• chrome - web browser of choice. I'm most familiar using it for standard browsing as well as for my client application's runtime environment.
• Sketch3 - a great tool for mocking up client UIs
• dash - documentation lookups
• boot2docker - I'll be using docker to manage the deploys of StatBot's services and need dockerd to build images and run containers locally.
• iterm2 - terminal emulator
• dropbox - Who wants to lose their work when a drive crashes? Not me!
• skype - Gotta stay in touch, ya know?

I did not install either mongodb or redis because I will be running those services in docker containers to save on time as well as keep an identical environment in development and production.

I grabbed my ssh keys and dotfiles from dropbox as well.