What I use:
Email me with any suggestions for improvements. Last update: 2025-10-17
hardware
- Silent PC I got in 2013, still working great
 - LG DualUp vertical monitor ♥
 - Keychron Q3 keyboard with Kailh Midnight Pro silent switches ♥
 - Onyx Boox Go 6 ebook reader
 - Studiobricks One Plus sound-proof recording booth ♥
 - AT5040 microphone
 - Macbook Air M2 for recording and travel
 - 64 Audio custom-molded earphones
 - Panasonic GH-5 camera now only for video interviews
 - Kensington Expert Mouse since 1995
 - Pixel 10 phone
 - Industrial Athletic squat rack, barbell, plates, and bench, right next to my PC so a few times per day I stop and do 5 reps, AKA “5×5”
 - Surly Preamble bicycle, modded electric
 - Nissan Leaf car
 
software
- Vim text editor, all day every day
 - PostgreSQL database is the center of everything
 - Ruby programming language
 - Sinatra web DSL
 - OpenBSD on my server
 - Debian on my desktop
 - 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
 - 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.
 - Skritter and Wenlin for learning Chinese.
 
services
- Vultr basic $10/month public server
 - Sendamatic for outgoing email
 - Bunny for DNS and media CDN
 - Netim domain registrar
 - Kagi for ad-free spam-free search
 - Wikipedia for curiosity
 - Anna’s Archive for EPUB ebooks
 - Hacker News for random inputs