Dev Tools

Hardware

Laptop

• MacBook Pro with a discrete GPU ... but buy one used
• Pinebook Pro
• System76

Software

Code Editor

• Sublime Text for a code editor

Database Client

• Navicat (Expensive / not FOSS)
• TablePlus (If you can't afford Navicat, get TablePlus)

Testing

• Docker is a containerization thing
• Vagrant is a really good tool for if you want to more easily test your code in VMs
• Valet was made for testing laravel code on a Mac. You don't neccessarily need to use it with Laravel but it does require a Mac.

Security

• Burp Suite CE

Other

• Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test the APIs you build or consume.
• Postman is another app for sending REST, SOAP, and GraphQL requests and testing APIs.
• MacDown is a really good FOSS Markdown editor for macOS.

Services

Testing

• Sauce Labs for testing on various devices types, operating systems, and browsers

Hosting

• Render.com
• Github Pages
• Firebase
• Keybase
• DigitalOcean

Version Control

• Github

Security

• Shodan