My wonderful world of macOS
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- Quicksilver - Similar to Alfred and Spotlight, Quicksilver is a free application that allows you to perform application functions with keybindings. I also use it to easily use search engines and create custom keybindings. It's beginning to show its age, but it's a great free alternative and still has an active plug-in scene.
- OpenEmu - Easily the best video game emulator suite I've ever seen. A clean interface, very easy to view and manage your games and installed emulator cores. I find competing products like Retroarch to be a nightmare in terms of UI, OpenEmu simply feels clean and easy to use.
- MacVim - A GUI Vim editor. Combines the versatility of Vim in a modern Mac application.
- Quiver - A note-taking app, similar to Evernote. However, Quiver also supports note taking in both Markdown and LaTeX, which I find very useful. There is also a phone app, and can sync notes via Dropbox between them.
- Aseprite - Drawing software focused on creating pixel art.
- PICO-8 - Create retro-inspired games in Lua.
There's also a number of more well-known applications that I would recommend, but are probably famous enough that I don't need to go into detail, such as Firefox, F.lux, and GIMP.
I usually try not to use too many third party apps just so setting up a new machine is fast and I don't have to maintain too many things. Especially if switching between work and personal machine. If it's something like snippets I try not to use them too much, or set them up in my IDE so I won't struggle if I have to work on another machine or environment. This is—of course—just a personal preference.
There are some that I use on both machines and a lot so I wrote them up a while ago for someone who got their first Mac, maybe there's something interesting in there too for someone: