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Eddy Vinck • Edited

Yeah, these are tickets I’m looking into, the time tracking application, my E-Mail, my calendar, search results on technical problems, documentation on methods I’m working with…

As a frontend developer you can add the the Figma design including desktop and mobile demo from the design.

Occasionally you also need to run BrowserStack to test your app on multiple native devices.

Besides the browser, let's not forget the unit tests that are running in Node while solving the problem, Node for the client, Node for the server. VSCode performs pretty well, but it still takes a few resources.

Oh, and of course you need to run Spotify to drown out all the noise from the open office space.

Chances are you are also expected to keep your Slack client open most of the time if not all the time.

16GB RAM is my minimum for a dev laptop, but of course the CPU needs to be decent as well. If you're doing machine learning, which I'm not, you also need a good GPU or a dedicated PC.