5 Mac accessories for developers

Jonathan Fielding
5 min readMar 27, 2023
Photo by Bimbingan Islam on Unsplash

Recently many of my blog posts have been on important topics that are dear to my heart however sometimes its nice to write a lighter post focusing on just sharing a bit about how I like to work. Today I thought I would share what accessories I use with my Mac in the hope that it might be helpful to someone else to.

As a fully remote software engineer its important to me that I have a setup that enables me to be my most effective. Therefore everything from my mouse to my laptop stand needs to be right for how I like to work.

Logitech MX Mechanical

Photo of Author’s Keyboard

As a software engineer I spend much of my time writing code or in a Terminal so a good keyboard is incredibly important. For about 10 years I swore by my Apple full size keyboard but as it was starting to get quite old I decided to buy something new. In parallel with this I had work colleagues raving about using a mechanical keyboards so I decided it was time to see what all the fuss was about.

When looking at mechanical keyboards though I was overwhelmed by so much choice, and the size of the community arround them. For me I wanted something I could trust to just work and that was…

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Jonathan Fielding

Staff Engineer working for @Spendesk, speaker about web things, writing about tech, contributor to open source. If you like what I write make sure to follow.