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This is a "Uses" page, detailing some of the tools and other things I use.
Technical
Daily Drive
Hardware
- Laptop: MacBook Pro 15-inch (2018), MacOS Monterey 12.7.1. A gift from my partner (when she in turn was gifted a laptop by her sister) when I quit my job in 2022. I'd like to experiment with a Linux-based daily driver (especially a Framework, or I've heard good things about Linux on Thinkpads), but you can't beat free!
- Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage 2. It took me about a month to get back up to my usual typing speed after buying this, but the benefits in terms of (lack of) wrist pain are incalculable. And I don't even use the super-leet foot-pedal to switch configuration layouts!
- Mouse: Some kind of Razer something that I was gifted by an old housemate.
- Screens: Dell 34" Superwide Curved Monitor, plus a LG 32" rotated 90 degrees. I use the latter solely for Slack, Music, and Calendar, whereas the former (in central view) rotates between browser, IDE, terminal, and whatever else (using Rectangle).
- AV Access KVM. I only acquired this recently. It's...fine. Unfortunately Macs don't seem to support two external monitors on a single USB-C, so I have to have one of my external monitors directly wired to my work laptop - but that's ok, personal work rarely needs more than my main screen anyway.
Software
- IDE: Visual Studio Code. I used to be a devotee of IntelliJ, but VS Code is the norm at work and it's been easier just to switch than to deal with differing configuration standards, and I don't want to have different IDEs for personal and professional work. I will say that it seems to have lower memory consumption so I can still have it open in the background when I play Factorio!
- Browser: Firefox. Continuing to use Chrome in 2024 is just plain baffling. I've yet to hear a compelling case for Edge or IE, or any of the smaller browsers.
- Terminal: Kitty. I ditched iTerm 2 on principle when they started introducing AI1. So far they have seemed pretty much equivalent tbh.
- Honourable mention to Warp, which I would definitely pick as a terminal if I was starting out today (if they took out the AI nonsense). It provides out-of-the-box a lot of the customization and usability that I've spent years building up in my own dotfiles.
- Bitwarden for password management. I'd be interested in moving to self-hosted, but I'd want my backups to be way better-tested before doing so - this is a real central point of failure for life!
- Rectangle is a super-useful tool to rearrange windows on Mac.
- fzf (direct GitHub link, but that article does a better job of explaining the value) for Fuzzy Find in the terminal.
- Tailscale for VPN. Believe the hype - it's magical.
Homelab
Hardware
- Three Raspberries Pi, and a PowerEdge R430 that I got cheap and refurbished thanks to a tip from a friend.
- iX Systems TrueNAS R-Series, 64GB RAM, 1x1.9TB SSD, 7x6TB HDD, 4xEmpty for expansion. Probably overkill, but I'd rather give myself some room to grow than have to deal with data migrationd and repooling regularly!
- Sysracks 12U 35" Rack.
- Quotom Mini PC w/ 8GB RAM, 64GB SSD, running OPNSense as Firewall and Router
- Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Pro. I set this up about 4 years ago, and I remember it being a real arse to get working with multiple false starts, but since then it's been pretty much flawless. I briefly experimented with an Eero mesh but that dropped out and needed a restart about every couple of weeks.
Software
More detail to follow! TL;DR - k3s, Helm, Gitea, Argo, Vault, Drone CI (would love to drop that), Grafana, OpenProject, Jellyfin, Crossplane, democratic-csi, KeyCloak, HomeAssistant.
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Yes, I know it was opt-in. It still indicates decision-making that I don't want to support. ↩︎