Uses

Tools, hardware, and apps I reach for day to day.

Dev Tooling

  • VS Code — primary editor, especially when remote containers are in play
  • Zed — reaching for it more often when remote containers aren’t involved. It feels zippy, clean, and fresh. Less bloated, IMO.
  • JetBrains Mono — coding font. Been using it for a while, and I have no qualms
  • Arc — browser. Is it becoming abandoned? Yes, but I've not found anything better, yet (Chrome devtools is a must for me)
  • Ghostty — terminal. I used to use iTerm 2, but I've switched to Ghostty, and not looked back
  • Claude Code — AI Agent goes brrrr
  • lazygit — git client. More TUIs need to be this good
  • chezmoi — dotfile manager. Simple, robust, well known. That said, I need to manage my dotfiles more
  • Neovim — for editing in the terminal

Desktop Apps

  • Raycast — launcher; GOATed. Everyone should use this
  • Obsidian — current home for my knowledge base — it rotates between Notion, Silverbullet.md, and Obsidian
  • Handy — voice transcription.
  • OrbStack — Docker on macOS, way faster and less buggy than Docker Desktop
  • Shottr — easily markup screenshots
  • BetterMouse — because Logitech Options was having a bad time

Hardware

  • Flexispot E7 — standing desk; IKEA butcher block top pulled from a dumpster
  • Steelcase Leap — chair. Got it refurbished
  • Walking pad — generic Amazon model
  • Corne (3x5) — DIYed split keyboard, ZMK firmware with a Miryoku-variant keymap. Hot take: having more than 36 keys is a waste
  • MX Master — mouse. I've had this for 10 years, and it's still going strong. Had to do some modifications because the gesture button broke, though
  • Custom desktop — Ryzen 3600, GTX 1660, misc SSDs, Pop!_OS. There's also a windows disk that I can boot to when I need it
  • M1 Pro MacBook Pro 14" — whatever work supplies — currently this. Fantastic machine.
  • HyperX Cloud Alpha — headphones. They were cheap when I got them, and they've been solid ever since

Homelab

  • Dell PowerEdge R510 — the box. Got it from a friend for free
  • Proxmox — hypervisor
  • Jellyfin — media server. Mostly music, because my server doesn't have a GPU
  • Home Assistant — home automation, and way more possibilities for tinkering than I could ever satisfy
  • AdGuard Home — network-wide ad and tracker blocking
  • Mealie — recipe manager. This helps my wife actually appreciate my server :p
  • Caddy — reverse proxy
  • FreshRSS — RSS reader. Because I wanna see what I wanna see, not what the algorithms want me to
  • PiVPN — VPN for connecting to my lan. Uses wireguard
  • Coolify — self-hosted PaaS. Runs a couple of my self-hosted projects