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/uses 2024-05-29 The hardware, software, services, and gear which I use (almost) daily. true true slashes

Here's some of the stuff I use and how I use it.

Hardware

Not counting my homelab.

Everyday Carry

What has it got in its pockets/backpack?

Software

Computer and web apps.

  • Calibre for collecting, converting, and managing my eBooks.
  • Fish shell, a really smart, modern, heavily configurable shell.
  • Home Assistant for controlling my "smart" home.
  • Home Manager for managing packages and configurations across multiple systems (dotfiles).
  • Immich, a self-hosted photo and video management solution.
  • Linkding as a self-hosted bookmark manager.
  • Miniflux, a self-hosted minimalist feed reader.
  • Obsidian for collecting/organizing notes. You can see some of them here.
  • Phanpy, a minimal and opinionated Mastodon web client.
  • Tabby, a beautiful cross-platform terminal app.
  • tmux because I heard you like terminals so I put a terminal in your terminal so you can terminal while you terminal.
  • Vim for coding and development without a GUI.
  • VSCode for most coding and development.

Android Apps

Skipping the obvious ones for services mentioned elsewhere on this page...

Services

These may include affiliate links.

  • Cloaked for generating unique identies (email addresses + phone numbers) for every web sign-up.
  • Fastmail for fast, private email service with a ton of nice bonus features.
  • Forward Email for routing email to/from my various project domains.
  • JMP.chat for a phone number backed by XMPP.
  • NextDNS for privacy-protecting ad-blocking DNS filtering in the cloud.
  • Obico for controlling and monitoring 3D prints.
  • omg.lol for some really handy web tools and one of the best communities of interesting people.
  • Privacy.com for creating virtual merchant-locked credit cards to keep me safe when shopping online.
  • Tailscale for connecting all my various systems and making them think that they're on the same LAN.