Things I Use

Updated October 3, 2023

Hardware

• Laptop: One of various Thinkpads

  I travel with a t14s gen3 as it is most portable/powerful, x230 or t430 (both with x20 modded keyboards) at home and for writing in coffeeshops.

• Desktop: R7 5900x, 32GB RAM, 3080 - in server rack
• Keyboard: Ergodox EZ
• Microphone: Shure SM7B with DM1 Dynamite/Scarlett Solo interface
• Mouse: Logitech MX Ergo Trackball
• Camera: Sony A7IV
• Phone: Google Pixel 5
• E-reader: Kobo Clara HD

Software

Desktop

• OS: Arch linux
• WM and Environment: BSPWM/SXHKD/Polybar/Dunst/Rofi Nowhere Setup
• Emacs: Doom using Org-mode/Org-Calendar/ERC/EMMS/Elfeed/LaTeX
• Email: Neomutt
• Browsers: Firefox Developer Edition w/ various mitigations or Qutebrowser

  Brave for normie stuff (soycial media/youtube) - less and less these days

• Terminal: Alacritty with tmux
• Neovim: Default editor and quick edits
• Zathura: PDF Reader
• Gajim: XMPP
• OBS Studio: Recording
• ffmpeg/mpv/various scripts: Video Editing
• GIMP: Image edits
• Transmission: torrent client

Server

• OS: Debian and OpenBSD as Bastion
• Golang Debian and OpenBSD as Bastion
• NextJS/HTMX Frontend
• Postgres Database
• NGINX Loadbalencing and subdomains

Mobile

• OS: CalyxOS
• Cal DAVx
• Conversations: XMPP Client
• Signal/Telegram/Silence: Communications
• Fairemail: email client
• Full list of apps here

Services

• Mailgun: Email send/transactions
• Vultr: VPS Hosting
• Namecheap: Domain Registration