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I’ve been a fan of technology for as long as I can remember. I tried building computers long before my first lego. I remember browsing GitHub years before understanding a single line of code.

Along the way, I’ve bought, found, and/or built for some exceptional tech. Here’s a list of them that I use day-to-day and why. There’s also some highlights from days past.

This page is a bit verbose because it doubles as a way for me to keep track of some of these things I own. Bear with me.

Utilities

• Internet
  • Google Fiber 1G @ $70/m
• Cell
  • Visible @ $25/m
• Electricity
  • Georgia Power @ ~$0.20/kWh
• DNS + Domains
  • Cloudflare @ ~$50/yr
• Hosting
  • Github / Cloudflare Pages
  • Railway / Fly.io / Cloudflare Workers
  • Google Cloud Run / AWS EC2
  • Coolify / Self-Hosted

Hardware

Peripherals

Keyboard(s)

• Cheapino2
• Ducky Mecha 2 - Creator Edition

Mic(s)

• Blue Yeti

Webcam(s)

• Logitech C930e
• Logitech C170

Headphone(s)/Earbud(s)

• Apple Earpods
• Logitech G435 Headphones
• Truthear Zero IEMs

Monitor(s)

• 2x27” Samsung LF27T35 @ 75Mhz
• 25” Samsung G40B @ 240Mhz

Phone(s)

• Apple iPhone Xs
• OnePlus 7 Pro
• OnePlus N200

Laptop(s)

• Personal

  • Model: Lenovo ThinkPad E15
  • CPU: 4-Core i5-10210U @ 1.5GHz-4.2GHz
  • RAM: 8GB DDR4 2666Mhz
  • STORAGE: 256GB SSD

• Work

  • Model: 2022 13” Macbook Pro
  • CPU: Apple M2
  • RAM: 16GB
  • STORAGE: 256GB

Desktop(s)

• Perma-Clamshell Intel Macbook Pro

  • Model: 2019 15” Macbook Pro
  • CPU: 6-Core i7 @ 2.6GHz
  • RAM: 16GB
  • STORAGE: 512GB SSD

Server(s)

• The most overkill temporary NAS

  • CPU: 8-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D @ 3.4GHz
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070 8GB
  • RAM: 32GB
  • STORAGE: 512GB SATA + 1TB NVME M.2 SSD + 3x 1TB HDD + 5TB HDD

• Virtualization (Proxmox)

  • CPU: 6-Core AMD Ryzen 7 5600X @ ?? GHz
  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super 8GB
  • RAM: 64GB RAM
  • STORAGE: 512 SSD + 1TB SDD + 2TB SDD

• Router (pfSense)

  • CPU: 4-Core Intel i7 4790 @ 3.6 GHz
  • GPU: Integrated
  • RAM: 12GB
  • STORAGE: 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD

• Offsite Backups (Dietpi)

  • CPU: Broadcom BCM2837B0 @ 1.4GHz
  • GPU: Integrated
  • RAM: 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
  • STORAGE: 128GB Mini SDC + 3.5TB HDD

• NAS (TrueNAS) Sold

  • CPU: Intel i5 5930K @ 3.5GHz
  • GPU: AMD R7 250 2GB
  • RAM: 48GB RAM
  • STORAGE: 25GB SSD

Software

Self-Hosted

Services

• Commafeed
• Flame/Glance
• Gitea
• Owncloud
• Searx
• Traefik
• Vaultwarden
• Wakapi
• Coder

Monitoring

• Grafana
• Loki
• Prometheus / IndexDB
• Telegraf
• Umami Plausible

Media Streaming

• Jellyfin + Jellystat + Jellyseerr
• Photoprism → Immich

CLIs

• bash → zsh w/ starship prompt
• fzf
• ffmpeg
• jq
• ranger → lf
• git
• docker → podman
• packer
• ripgrep
• ansible
• terraform

TUIs

• tmux
• ctop
• htop
• lazydocker
• lazygit
• mpd / mpv + ncpmcpp

Browser(s)

• Blink

  • Brave
  • Thorium
  • Edge
  • Chromium
  • Google Chrome
  • Arc

• Gecko

  • Zen Browser
  • Firefox Developer Edition

• WebKit

  • Safari
  • Orion

Text Editor(s)

• Neovim
• Cursor
• Zed
• VSCode

Terminal Emulator(s)

• Ghostty
• Kitty

Video Editor(s)

• Davinci Resolve
• Kdenlive
• Shotcut

Password Manager

• Bitwarden
• 1Password

Notes

• Apple Notes
• Obsidian

OS-Specific

MacOS

• Raycast
• Homebrew

Windows

• …

Linux

• Timeshift
• Distrubutions
  • Nix
    • NixOS
  • Debian
    • Ubuntu
  • Arch
    • Antergos → EndeavourOS <3
    • Garuda
    • Arcolinux
    • Manjaro
  • RHEL
    • Nobara
    • CentOS / Rocky / Alma
• Desktop Environment
  • Mint/Cinnamon <3
  • XFCE <3
  • KDE
  • Gnome / Cosmic
  • Custom
    • Window Managers
      • hyprland
      • herbsluftwm
      • i3wm
      • bspwm
    • Launchers
      • rofi
      • dmenu
    • Bar
      • waybar
      • polybar
    • Notifications
      • swaynotificationncenter
      • dunst