Uses

This is a list of the hardware, software, and services I personally use, kept up to date.

Last updated August 5, 2025

Hardware#

• Laptop T14s gen3 - Running NixOS, kmonad for keyboard remapping, SSH into everything.
• Monitor Dell 32” Ultrasharp
• Keyboard Chocofi 36 key
• Trackball MX Ergo
• Speakers Emotiva B1
• Speaker Stands Gator Frameworks speaker stand
• Microphone Shure SM7B
• Interface Audient iD4
• Mic stand Blue Microphone boom
• Desk Butcher block counter top with These castor legs
• Seating Meditation Stool
• Camera Sony A7iv with Sigma 24-70 and Sigma 16-28 lenses
• Phone Samsung S24
• E-Reader Kobo Clara HD

The Core system#

I have been using Emacs (Doom emacs as my “emacs distribution”) as my base computing environment for all things text manipulation. Emacs has essentially replaced most of my previous setup and tooling (though we are still using unix tooling as the base for all things, of course). Emacs has helped to bring everything together and make my environment cohesive.

Fedora Workstation is what I’ve been using for about a year now, version 42 currently. I have now switched to using NixOS as my daily driver. Nix represents what I would conceive as the “endgame” of Linux distros.

I will discuss what I have used to build ontop of this with programs below:

Programs#

• Hyprland - Environment
  • Hypridle
  • Hyprlock
  • Hyprpicker

Doom Emacs - An environment for a lifetime

• EMMS - Emacs Multimedia System

• Elfeed - RSS feed reader for Emacs

• Pass - Password-store integration in emacs

• Circe - IRC client for Emacs

• Org-mode - Organization and note-taking system

  • Org-roam - Knowledge management and note-taking
  • Org-noter - Note-taking tool linked to documents
  • Org-agenda - Task and schedule management
  • Org-gcal - Google Calendar synchronization

• Dired/Dirvish - Enhanced directory editor

• Vterm - Terminal emulator within Emacs

• Projectile - Project interaction library

• Nov.el - EPUB reader mode

• PDF-tools - PDF reader and annotator

• Magit - Git interface for Emacs

• Docker/Podman - Docker/container integration

• Restclient.el - HTTP REST client

• Pgmacs - PostgreSQL client for Emacs

• Tramp - Remote file editing

• LSP Mode - Language Server Protocol support for IDE-like features

• DAP Mode - Debug Adapter Protocol for debugging

• Treemacs - Tree layout file explorer

• Flycheck - Syntax checking

• Company - Text completion framework

• Mu4e - Email client to replace Thunderbird/Neomutt

• Kitty - Alternate Terminal

  • ZSH - Shell (used in Vterm as well)
    • Starship - Prompt
    • OhmyZSH - Plugin management
    • FZF - Fuzzy finder. I have various custom scripts in my .zshrc
    • ZSH Autosuggestions - Autosuggestions
    • ZSH Autocomplete - Autocompletion
    • FZF Tab - Tab search for cd
    • ZSH Syntax Highlighting - Syntax Highlighting in shell
    • Eza - ls replacement
    • Zoxide - smarter way to cd
    • Bat - cat replacement
    • RG - ripgrep
    • Geist mono nerd font - Font
  • Tmux - Terminal multiplexer
    • TPM - Tmux plugin management
    • Tmux Sensible

• Borg/rsync/syncthing - Backup solutions

• GPG/PGP - Encryption

• Thunar - Graphical File manager

• OBS Studio - Broadcasting/Recording Screen and webcam

• Firefox - Browser

  • Plugins:
    • Vimium C
    • uBlockOrigin
    • Privacy Badger
    • Violentmonkey
    • Don’t F with Paste
    • Decentraleyes
    • I still don’t care about cookies

• Brave - Alternate Browser

• Thunderbird - Email client

• QBittorrent - Torrent client

• GIMP - Image manipulation

Development#

• Frontend

  • Astro - Frontend using no JS by default, allowing hydration via other frameworks
  • HTMX - Form submissions and handling
  • Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework that works well with frontend
  • PNPM - Fast, disk space efficient package manager

• Backend

  • Golang - Backend/business logic
    • Echo - High performance web framework
    • sqlc - Type-safe SQL to Go code generator
    • golang-migrate - Database migration tool
    • JWT - JSON Web Token implementation for authentication
    • validator - Struct and field validation
    • Redis - Redis client for caching and session management
    • Postgres - PostgreSQL driver
    • Stripe - Payment processing integration
    • Swagger - API documentation generation
    • Mailgun - Email service integration
    • Prometheus - Metrics and monitoring
    • Telegram Bot API - Messaging integration
    • UUID - Unique identifier generation
    • godotenv - Environment variable management

• Database

  • Postgres - Database

• Podman and Podman Compose - Containerization

• Nix for most of my deployments