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Member of technical staff at Anthropic; previously led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, RecSys and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
11 things
MacDownSoftware
For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
WarpSoftware Warp
Trying Warp instead of my usual iTerm
'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.
2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗
FishSoftware
Trying Fish instead of my usual Oh My Zsh
'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.
2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗
RaycastSoftware Raycast
I've since moved to Raycast window management.
'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.
2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗
MX ErgoHardware Logitech
sign in to load saved settings for my MX Ergo
'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.
2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗
RoamSoftware Roam Research
I use Roam as my main note-taking app. While I only use very basic features such as bidirectional links and reference blocks, it works well enough for me.
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
BearSoftware Shiny Frog
For those, I use the free version of Bear
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
KindleHardware Amazon
To read books, I use the Kindle.
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
Adobe Acrobat ReaderSoftware Adobe
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
InstapaperService
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
'How to Accomplish More with Less' — the tools he uses for organization and creation.
2020-09-13·eugeneyan.com ↗
RectangleSoftware Ryan Hanson
While Raycast already has window management, Rectangle lets you hit the hotkey again
'My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide' — everything he installs on a new Mac.
2024-11-17·eugeneyan.com ↗
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