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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks and publishes courses on Udemy, blogging at alialaa.dev.
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Mac mini (M1, 2020)Hardware Apple
I use a Mac mini (M1, 2020), 16 GB memory. It's working great so far for recording. Very quite and fast enough for my kind of editing.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
ScreenFlowSoftware Telestream
For screen recording and editing I use ScreenFlow. I used to use Camtasia which I got for a good price using a promo code. However when I needed to upgrade to the newest version I found out that ScreenFlow is almost half the price and it does everything that I want.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
ASUS VG248Hardware ASUS
I have a couple of 24'' ASUS VG248 Full HD monitors. I use one to record the screen and the other to have some notes/code opened that I look at while recording.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
RØDE NT1Hardware RØDE
I have recently been recording using a RØDE NT1 with a RØDE AI-1 interface. RØDE is also responsible for attaching the mic to the desk using the PSA1 boom arm.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
AudacitySoftware
I use Adobe Audacity for post-processing my voice recordings. I do things like noise reduction, normalization, equalization, etc...
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
VS CodeSoftware Microsoft
I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
GitHub Dark DefaultSoftware GitHub
I prefer dark VS Code themes. My current theme is GitHub Dark Default.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
Dank MonoOther Phil Plückthun
I use Dank Mono as a font for VS Code. I also use this font on this website in the blog for code snippets.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
SafariSoftware Apple
For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
PostmanSoftware Postman
I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
SvelteKitSoftware
This website is built with SvelteKit, hosted on Netlify and the code is hosted on GitHub. Amazon's S3 and CloudFront are used to host some assets.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
GoDaddyService GoDaddy
I use GoDaddy for domain names.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
SendySoftware Ben Dalton
I use Sendy for newsletters. It's a self-hosted service which uses Amazon Simple Email Service. It's written using PHP and thus it needs the LAMP stack to be hosted. I use a DigitalOcean droplet with the LAMP stack installed to host it.
His /uses page, covering the setup behind his course production and day-to-day coding. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/routes/uses/+page.svelte in his site repo alialaa/alialaa, whose contents match the quoted lines.
2024-08-07·alialaa.dev ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.