Uses

Hardware

• Apple Mac Mini (2020 - M1)
• LG HDR Wide Screen Monitor
• NuPhy Air75 Mechanical Keyboard
• Apple Trackpad + MX Master 3 Mouse
• Homepod Mini for audio

macOS + iOS

• Safari: everything on iOS is technically Safari, so this is a bit of a concession to an operating system restriction. The experience of using Safari is quite nice—the privacy features, extension support, and so forth. -- The developer experience still lags behind other browsers.

• Obsidian: fast and configurable (or minimal) as you'd like; I use it for all of my notes and writing.

• Parcel: the most flexible and reliable package tracker for Apple's ecosystem.

• Day One: an awesome journal app!

• MX Clients: Mailmate, Fmail3, AERC

• Messaging: Signal

• Tasks: Things III

• RSS: Feedly

• Launcher: Alfred

• VPN: Tailscale & Mullvad

• Podcasts: Overcast

• Touchup: Pixelmator Pro

• VEdit: Final Cut Pro

• Bookmarks: Raindrop.io

• Password Mgr: Bitwarden

• Network: Little Snitch

• Package Manager: Homebrew

• Code Editors: Sublime, VSC

• Terminal: iTerm / Oh-my-ZSH

iOS

• FontCase: for managing/installing fonts.

macOS

• Magnet: flexible, powerful window management.

• Mp3tag: a powerful utility for editing and managing music metadata (it also allows you to edit extended tags, which can be important when adding music to Navidrome).

• Permute: a useful utility for quickly converting files to different formats.

• noTunes: a lightweight utility that prevents Music.app from launching. It also allows you to set a new default music player.

Dev tools

• iTerm2: a feature-rich terminal app more flexible and powerful than the native macOS terminal.

Services

• Proton: the premier, privacy-focused email and calendar provider.

• Starlink: Gave the cable company the boot. No regrets so far.

• forwardemail.net: a powerful and reliable service for hosting, forwarding, and routing emails for the domains I own. I use it to handle emails for Coolify, my site and send API notifications.

• Kagi: my favorite search engine that avoids AI cruft, provides relevant results and myriad other features (like ranking results) and highlights trackers present for a given result.

• Coolify: for web application management and deployment.

• Hetzner: a modern, reliable, and dependable web host.

• FreshRSS: not the prettiest RSS reader, but it's powerful, flexible, and reliable.

• linkding: a self-hosted bookmark manager for things I want to reference or read later.

• Goatcounter: lightweight, privacy-friendly, and performant analytics.

• Bäikal: a lightweight CardDAV and CalDAV server I use to sync contacts across devices (as Proton doesn't sync with local contacts). Ente Photos: end-to-end encrypted and open-source photo storage and management.

• bunny.net: an affordable and altogether user-friendly CDN & DNS host. I host the images for my site with them and use their optimizer/transforms heavily.

• Backblaze: my go-to web storage platform. I use it to host the images for my site, back up my laptop, archive data, and back up Coolify databases.

• NextDNS: a privacy-focused, set-it-and-forget-it DNS service. I use their security features on my home network and a profile with strict ad-blocking rules on all of my devices.

• CloudNS: a robust, user-friendly hosted DNS provider and domain registrar.