Omid Sayfun
I'm a senior software engineer working on payments at Coda.co, living in Amsterdam.
I have spent most of my career working in FinTech and e-commerce businesses. I am an early adopter. You will find me usually trying out new tools or products. In the evenings, you will either find me working out in a Gym, coding on a side project, or playing Padel.
I have been fortunate to have traveled to many countries. My goal is to visit 30 countries by the end of 2030.
I use an extensive list of tools and software in my daily life. I can't live without some of them (painkillers) and some of them are just nice to have (vitamins). Here is a list of my current stack:
- Raycast - Give it a shot and you will never want to go back to macOS spotlight.
- Bartender - I have a million menu bar icons and this is the only way to manage them.
- cmux - This is the best terminal replacement and fully integrated with most of coding agents.
- OpenWhispr - You speak 3x faster than you type. Who knew?
- BetterDisplay - Best tool to manage your external monitors on Mac.
- Telegram - I use Telegram for everything. It is the app that I use first thing in the morning.
- Beekeeper Studio - best SQL editor that I have used.
- Visual Studio Code - I migrated back from Cursor and use VS code as a git diff review / text editor.
- ChatGPT Codex - Rate limits on codex is crazy!
- OrbStack - The best way to run Docker containers on macOS.
- Macbook Pro , Airpods Pro , iPhone Pro - I'm a heavy Apple user.
I try to code and workout every day. Here you can find my activity in the last 6 months:
I subscribe to a number of different newsletters and youtube channels. I try to read anything that teaches me something new. Most of them end up in my AI agent inbox and I just read the summaries. Here is a list of my favorite ones that I fully read and recommend:
- Naval - I have been following Naval for a long time and I find his content to be very insightful. He talks about startups, investing, and life in a very philosophical way.
- Collaborative Fund - Reading Pure Independece by Morgan Housel and I was immediately hooked. They write about economics, markets, and investing in a way that is very easy to understand and has great storytelling.
- The Diary of a CEO - Steven Bartlett interviews successful people from different fields and they talk about their journey, mindset, and life in a very honest way.
- Farnam Street - Introduced by Naval and I have been a fan ever since. They write about mental models, decision making, and learning applicable to real life.
- Mark Manson - I got bored in the middle of his most famous book, searched his newsletter and resonated a lot with it a lot more. He writes about self improvement, philosophy, and life in a very honest way.