Uses
Here is a list of the technology I use on a daily basis. To see other nifty things that people use, go check out /uses.
Hardware
- Apple MacBook Pro M3 for my daily workhorse
- Mode Designs Envoy for a pleasant typing experience
- Apple Magic Trackpad for moving the cursor on Apple computers
- Logitech BRIO for remote meetings
- Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk for a pleasant space to work
- Elgato Stream Deck for fancy physical hotkeys
Web Browsing
- Arc for a Chromium browser with AI tooling
- Firefox for a Google-free, fast browser
- uBlock Origin for blocking ads and trackers
- letsblock.it for generating uBlock Origin blocklists
- Vimium for vim-like browser navigation
- NoScript for blocking unwanted JavaScript execution
- Decentraleyes for blocking tracking through CDNs
- Privacy Badger for blocking invisible tracking
- Stylus for injecting custom CSS
- Tampermonkey for injecting custom JavaScript
- SponsorBlock for skipping sponsorships on YouTube
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager for spoofing User-Agent headers
Services
Tools
- Visual Studio Code for writing software
- JetBrains Mono for a beautiful monospaced font with ligatures
- Fira Code for another amazing monospaced font with ligatures
- Catppuccin for a beautiful pastel color theme
- Dracula for a widely available dark pastel theme
- Alacritty for a cross-platform, highly-configurable, performant terminal
- Obsidian for my notes and general life organization
- Todoist for planning my day
- Raycast for a modern macOS command palette
Terminal
- fish for a fast and friendly shell
- starship for a super intuitive shell prompt
- neovim for text editing
- tmux for multiplexing terminals
- git for code version management
- git-delta for beautiful code diffs in git
- nnn for filesystem navigation
- btop for monitoring resource usage (replaces top)
- mise for managing runtime versions
- fzf for fuzzy finding things
- zoxide for quickly hopping between directories (replaces cd)
- ripgrep for finding file contents (replaces grep)
- bat for viewing files (replaces cat)
- lsd for listing directories (replaces ls)
- xh for interacting with HTTP requests (replaces curl)
- jq for processing and querying JSON
- just for executing project commands (replaces make)
- atuin for magical shell history
Healthcare
- Apple Health for organizing health information
- Gentler Streak for tracking workout energy expenditure
- Hevy for planning workouts and tracking improvements
- Cronometer for tracking macro and micronutrients
- Yuka for checking for harmful additives
- Pillow for tracking sleep quality
- Withings for health monitoring hardware
Photography
- Sony A7III Camera for taking photos
- Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DGDN A Lens for high-quality exposure
- Sigma 50mm F2 DGDN C Lens for quick snapshots
- Peak Design Travel Tripod for stable shots
- Peak Design Cuff for securing my camera my wrist
- Peak Design Capture for securing my camera to a pack
Audio
- Spotify for streaming music and podcasts
- DROP+THX AAA 789 Amplifier for amplifying audio
- DROP+Grace SDAC for converting digital audio to analogue
- Focusrite Scarlet Solo 4th Generation for analogue microphone input
- Beyer Dynamic DT 990 Pro Headphones for casual listening
- Sennheiser HD 600 Headphones for critical listening
- Audio Technica AT2020 Microphone for capturing my voice
Everyday Carry
- Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L for carrying my things
- Ridge Wallet for carrying my cards and cash
- Spyderco Sage 5 for cutting things
- Traveler's Company Notebook for taking handwritten notes
- Uni Jestream Edge 0.38mm Ballpoint Pen for writing things
- Kobo Sage for reading books