What I use on a daily basis

Hardware

  • Machine: HP EliteBook 840 G2

    • OS: Arch Linux
    • GPU: Intel HD Graphics 5500 (integrated)
    • CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U 2.20 GHz
    • RAM: 16 GB (2x Samsung Memory 8 GB DDR3 1600 Mhz DIMM sticks)
    • Storage: 256 GB LITEON SATA3.1 SSD

  • Peripherals:

    • Keyboard: Perixx PERIBOARD-409WU US, Wired USB Mini Keyboard - White
    • Mouse: Dell Optical Wired Mouse - MS116

Software

  • Notes & Personal Knowledge Management:
    1. Obsidian
      • TODO: Add link to quartz
  • Terminal Emulator: kitty
    • Shell: zsh
    • Font: Adobe Source Code Pro
  • Text Editor(s):
    1. Visual Studio Code
    2. Sublime Text
    3. Helix
    4. Neovim
  • CLI Tools:
    • General:
      1. zoxide
      2. ripgrep (rg)
      3. fzf
      4. eza
      5. cargo-binstall
      6. fd
    • Development specific:
      1. git
      2. gitui
      3. curl
      4. riff
      5. For python currently it's the amazing uv but prior to that I dabbled with:
        1. pyenv-win
        2. poetry
        3. venv
        4. pipx
  • API Testing:
    1. Postman
    2. Hoppscotch
    3. cURL - classic...
  • Miscellaneous:
    1. Everything 1.5a

This page is inspired by Wes Bos' uses.tech, which encourages people to publicly share their overall setup, configurations, tools, and anything else they find useful for their productivity and leisure by adding a '/uses' page (like this one!) to their personal websites.

To see what other cool things people are using, check out uses.tech. Consider sharing yours!