Yusuf Gürel

Core Stack

Apps

  • Xcode - My main IDE and Apple's official IDE for iOS and macOS development, offering a complete set of tools for building, testing, and debugging Swift and Objective-C apps.

  • Cursor - A fork of VSCode with Claude built-in. It provides better AI-assisted coding than GitHub Copilot.

  • Hyper - A highly customizable terminal built on web technologies, offering a modern and extensible experience for command-line tasks.

  • Postman - A powerful API development and testing tool that simplifies sending requests, testing endpoints, and debugging APIs.

  • Linear - A streamlined issue tracking and project management tool, designed for speed and efficiency in software development workflows.

  • Obsidian - A powerful Markdown-based note-taking and knowledge management app. Ideal for mind mapping, personal wikis, and documentation.

  • Amazon Q - An AI-powered assistant for command-line auto-completion and query assistance, enhancing productivity in terminal.

Languages/Frameworks

  • Swift - My main programming language, known for its performance, safety, and developer-friendly syntax.

  • Node.js - A runtime environment that allows running JavaScript on the server, known for its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model.

  • Python - A high-level programming language for scripting, automation, and data science.

  • Next.js - A React framework for building optimized and scalable web applications, offering SSR and SSG.

Services

  • Vercel - A cloud platform optimized for frontend development, enabling fast deployment of Next.js, React, and other JavaScript frameworks.

  • Supabase - An open-source alternative to Firebase, providing authentication, database, and storage solutions with PostgreSQL as the backend.

  • DigitalOcean - A cloud computing provider offering scalable virtual machines, managed databases, and Kubernetes for hosting applications.

  • Amazon S3 - A highly scalable and secure object storage service by AWS, used for storing and retrieving data on the cloud.

  • Amazon CloudFront - A CDN that speeds up the distribution of web content by caching data in edge locations worldwide.

  • Firebase - Google's BaaS offering authentication, real-time database, Firestore, and cloud messaging for mobile and web apps.

  • Redis - An in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker, known for its speed and efficiency.

Resources

  • Apple Developer - Apple's official portal for developers.

  • NSHipster - A blog featuring in-depth technical articles on the Apple ecosystem.