Adam Wathan
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
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Mixed on REAPER
It's basically the Vim of audio editing software, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time and energy to heavily invest in customizing it for your workflow, but I can move like lightning in this thing.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Mixed on Zoom
I hate the app so much (so many damn modals and toolbars everywhere!) but the call quality is better and more reliable than any other tool so I tolerate it.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Vimeo
I host all of my course videos on Vimeo. It's essentially the only option — everything else is crazy expensive in comparison. Awesome service though, absolutely love it.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Recommends Audio Hijack Pro
I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Elgato Key Light
I use this to light my face better when recording video. Happy I spent the extra money on this
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Loved Sony a6000 camera
I use this to record any on-camera stuff for screencasts. Totally love it, looks super pro.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Liked Triton Audio FetHead preamp
The SM7B needs a lot more gain than most mics, so this little inline preamp is great for getting the levels up without investing in a really expensive mic preamp.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Loved Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro headphones
I've owned them for like 12 years and they show zero signs of wear. German engineering man, gotta love it.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Loved Shure SM7B microphone
The holy grail of broadcast mics, I've been using the SM7B since my audio engineering days when I was recording bands for a living. Sometimes I'm tempted to try something else out of pure curiousity, but so far the SM7B is still the winner.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Loved HelpScout
I set up a HelpScout account for us when we released the book because I anticipated a lot of support and it is so much nicer than handling everything via email. Awesome tool.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Bench
Bench handles all of the bookkeeping for my business.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Recommends ConvertKit
Highly recommend it if you want to build an email list!
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved 1Password
Such a great password manager, installing this for the first time was life-changing.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Calendly
I use Calendly to schedule podcast interviews and other meetings. So much nicer than trying to work out a time to chat by going back and forth in an email thread.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Todoist
I use Todoist to keep track of my todos. I really like the scheduled and recurring tasks features, lets me use Todoist for a lot of stuff that you might normally put in a calendar.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Uses Alfred
I use it to launch apps, for clipboard management, for customer support snippets, and probably tons more I'm still forgetting.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Hover
I register all of my domain names through Hover. I think it's a little more expensive than some of the other options, but the UI is simple and reliable and not loaded with dark patterns like some of the cheaper competitors.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Laravel Forge
All of my Laravel projects are managed by Forge. Been a customer since day one and don't know what I'd do without it.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Netlify
For my static sites (like this one), I use Netlify. It is probably my favorite app that I interact with on a regular basis. The UI is beautiful, the experience is awesome, and the app is insanely fast.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Uses DigitalOcean
For anything that needs to run PHP, I use DigitalOcean.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked ImageOptim
Really great for optimizing raster images like PNGs and JPEGs. Reduces the file size dramatically with no discernible difference in quality.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked SVGOMG
So good for quickly optimizing SVGs. I use SVG all over the place in my projects and end up using this tool many times each week.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Pixelmator
I don't do a ton of raster image editing but when I do Pixelmator is great. Has all of the features someone like me needs from Photoshop without getting sucked into Adobe's whole subscription system.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Figma
Figma is like Sketch but a million times more performant and cross-platform. It's the most impressive web app I've ever used.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Tuple
Really great tool for remote pair programming. Like Screenhero used to be, but better.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved iTerm2
Love this terminal, I especially like being able to create keyboard shortcuts that run terminal commands.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Liked Sizzy
Sizzy is a cool browser specifically for responsive design. It lets you view all of the breakpoints for a site at the same time and also does a good job auto-scaling fixed size viewports to fit whatever window size you're using.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Sublime Text 3
Still the most productive text editing environment I've ever used. Any time I try something else, within minutes I run into dozens of things it's missing or that Sublime does better.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Loved Herman Miller Aeron chair
Herman Miller Aeron chair Super expensive but worth every penny for me.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Liked IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk
This desk has poor reviews for some reason but I think it's great. It's quite big, really deep, and super stable.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
Mixed on Apple Pro Display XDR
The display is absolutely gorgeous and has all the space I need so I love it, but this thing is designed for professional film production so a lot of the features I'm paying for with this thing are totally unnecessary for me.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Loved MacBook Pro
This machine is more powerful than my iMac and feels just as portable as my 13" did — really love this computer.
adamwathan.me 20 Aug 2019
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Where they publish
Site adamwathan.me His articles, screencasts, courses and /uses page.
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- Spend more time shopping for the gym than training in the gym but do still train 😄 Easy 320 x 10 squat today, hard 195 x 5 overhead press 🥵 13 Oct 2026
- @JeffNippard Can I trouble you to know who makes this deadlift platform? Love the blacked out hardware and 3 tiles instead of 8 (no standing on seams!) 13 Oct 2026
- Relocating my gym to a different space in the house and have spent way too much time researching rolled flooring options. Everyone does the black with white speckle thing but doing some crude mockups today and I think I’m going light greige 👌🏻 12 Oct 2026
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- Building software in anything other than @AmpCode orbs feels like eating broken glass in comparison. But it’s frustratingly one of those “you can’t understand why it’s better until you just use it” tools, a lot like Tailwind was. Use it, and be ruined. 9 Oct 2026
- Mount Crushmore 8 Oct 2026
- Seeing what they were working on here is what really made me realize what a great home Shopify would be for our team. Incredible work by everyone involved, and excited to help push stuff like this further 🙌🏻 2 Oct 2026
- I shipped a change to a PHP 5 + Node 8 project the other night that would’ve been a nightmare without Amp and Orbs. As if I want to figure out how to install and run that shit in 2026. With orbs it just worked, no configuration, it just figured out how to create an environment where everything ran and I could preview my changes effortlessly. 29 Sept 2026
- If you are excited about Codex Cloud I am begging you to please use @AmpCode. It is so obviously the closest to what the future of building with agents (especially on teams) looks like. Threads are the new PR, and everyone on the team should be able to see them. 29 Sept 2026
- Hell is city driving for all eternity with your kid’s water bottle rolling around on the floor in the back seat. 28 Sept 2026
- What are some interesting problems you’ve been able to restate as classification problems to solve with Jev? Outside the box stuff that doesn’t seem like a classification problem at first. 18 Sept 2026
- Fun piece of history — Tailwind was extracted from a hosted checkout product I was working on back in 2017. Sort of poetic to end up at Shopify almost 10 years later! 10 Sept 2026
- Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️ 9 Sept 2026
- .@AmpCode is consistently 3-4 months ahead of every other harness in terms of discovering and optimizing the next workflow leap, feels like their only disadvantage is not being a model company and not being able to subsidize tokens. Insane to me that a model company hasn’t scooped them, would be a huge advantage now that most of the frontier models are equally capable. 26 Aug 2026
- Last site on earth I expected to be a Tailwind site 😄 19 Aug 2026
- Really feels like the Cursor team saw the future when they first shipped the agents UI that everyone complained about. Think we're going to see them recapture a lot of mindshare over the next few months. 17 Aug 2026
- Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like. Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change. 16 Aug 2026
- Never would’ve had any success in business without the things I’ve learned from Jason over the past 10 years, cannot wait to read this. 11 Aug 2026
- Nothing makes me second guess the quality of a product I just bought as much as instructions that fold on both axis 🥴 11 Aug 2026
- For science. 9 Aug 2026
- Feels like we’re about 6 months away from a token is a token is a token. Just gas at the gas station. 6 Aug 2026
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