What I use:
I’m somewhat opposed to making this page, since I want people to want less, not more.
Email me with any suggestions for improvements. Last update: 2024-09-18
hardware (see photo)
- Silent desktop PC - my main computer since 2014
- Macbook Air M2 for recording and travel
- Keychron Q3 keyboard with Kailh Midnight Pro silent switches ♥
- Studiobricks One Plus sound-proof recording booth ♥
- AT5040 microphone
- Panasonic GH-5 camera now only for video interviews
- Kensington Expert Mouse since 1995
- iPhone 13 Mini
- Kindle Paperwhite
- 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 is the center of everything
- Ruby programming language
- Sinatra web DSL
- Void Linux on my desktop
- OpenBSD on my server
- Ratpoison wm
- Nginx web server
- OpenSMTPD email server
- Radicale to privately self-host my contacts and calendar, synced to my phone
- Firefox browser with uBlock Origin and Link Hints
- 2FAS on phone for authentication codes
- Calibre to de-DRM ebooks
- Everything but Firefox and Calibre in the terminal, so command-line tools like mutt for email, Beancount for accounting, sox ffmpeg and mpv for audio/video, mupdf for ebooks, and ssh everywhere.
services
- Vultr basic $10/month public server
- Sendamatic for outgoing email
- Bunny for DNS and media CDN
- Netim domain registrar
- OED and Claude while writing
- Wikipedia for curiosity
- Hacker News for random inputs