Clean Slate PC

My work machine has been crashing moderately regularly for about a month. I'd been OK during that time thanks to frequent Git commits and working with OneDrive but I finally got in to see work's tech bar. They looked at it while I sat at my old desk and worked via the iPad. A while later they came over and asked if I'd noticed the laptop wasn't sitting flat, looks like a battery bulge issue that might be hitting internal components. Aha.

They'd also reimaged the machine.

I had been backing up moderately regularly until this started as the backups were crashing. So that's a month worth of machine changes gone - assuming I restore from backup. I had managed to ensure evreything was committed and stored into OneDrive before taking it in as a precaution. But what to do?

I'm taking this as an opportunity to rebuild. It's a mac, so I chucked brew on the machine and tried to see how many of my applications I could manage via that rather than random download-and-installs. So far, focusing on the dev stack I use, brew is now managing the following for me:

• Visual Studio Code
• PHP7.4 (+ Apache)
• Composer
• Insomnia
• DBeaver
• Docker

It's... working quite well. The machine itself is a lot faster. I'm going to see how much longer I can hold out without having to install VMWare for using Windows programs. But now I have to remember/ find out how to dredge from a backup what extensions I had in Visual Studio. Any suggestions beyond the below?

• Beautify
• Code::Stats
• Cucumber (Gherkin) Full Support
• Docker
• Markdown Footnotes
• Markdown Table Formatter
• PHP DockBlocker
• PHP Intelephense
• phpcs
• PHPUnit Test Explorer
• Python
• Remote - WSL
• Settings Sync (2 years old... darn that would've helped if I'd kept that up to date)
• Test Explorer UI
• Twig
• XML Format