Top 10 Tools New to Me in 2026 (so far)
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- Filemaker Pro 🗃️ - Production tracking for your grandpa.
- BBEdit 📝 - The veteran Mac text editor. I use this for its super unique option-click feature that lets you select segments of text vertically.
- Cinesync 🔄 - Remote review tool for VFX and post-production.
- Clearview Flex 🔻 - Secure remote video playback and streaming tool for reviewing film and VFX content at a distance.
- Griptape 🩹 - Python framework for building AI workflows, recently acquired by The Foundry.
- Docker 🐳 - Containerizing and solving the age old "works on my machine" discussion.
- Figma 🎨 - Collaborative design tool I've been using to wireframe ideas for Dailies Notes Assistant and mapping out production workflow diagrams.
- promptfoo 🥋 - Advanced open source LLM prompt testing that I'm using to benchmark prompts for an Academy Software Foundation project.
- Bluesky 🦋 - Social media for the conscientious that let me leave Meta in 2026.
- Hugo 🅷 - Markdown native, static site generator that I use for The Apple Box Collection.