What I use:
I’m somewhat opposed to making this page, since I want people to want less, not more. But since so many people ask, this is what I use.
Email me with any suggestions for improvements. Last update: 2022-12-25
hardware
- Silent desktop PC from 2014
- Lenovo T440s laptop from 2013 - a daily clone of the PC
- Studiobricks One Plus sound-proof recording booth ♥
- AT5040 microphone
- Panasonic GH-5 camera now only for video interviews
- Moto G31 phone
- Kensington Expert Mouse
- Keychron Q3 keyboard with Kailh Midnight Pro silent switches
- Industrial Athletic squat rack, barbell, plates, and bench, right next to my PC so a few times per hour I stop and do 5 reps, AKA “5×5”
- Surly Bridge Club bicycle
- Nissan Leaf car
software
- Vim text editor, all day every day
- PostgreSQL database
- Ruby programming language
- Sinatra web framework
- Ratpoison wm
- Nginx web server
- OpenBSD operating system
- OpenSMTPD email server
- Radicale to privately self-host my contacts and calendar, synced to my phone
- Firefox browser with uBlock Origin and Link Hints
- Calibre to de-DRM ebooks
- Everything but Firefox and Calibre in the terminal, so command-line tools like mutt for email, sox ffmpeg and mpv for audio/video, mupdf for ebooks, and ssh everywhere.
services
- Vultr basic $10/month public server (my home computer is a clone of my live server)
- Mailgun for outgoing email
- Cloudflare for DNS and video
- Netim domain registrar
- Oxford English Dictionary for writing
- Wikipedia for curiosity
- Hacker News for random inputs