Uses

This is a non-exhaustive list of things I use daily that keep me productive and organized.

Hardware

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 11th Gen

My primary development machine running Debian 13 and KDE Plasma 6. I cannot say enough good things about this laptop. I do wish the battery life under Linux was better though.

Macbook Air M4 13"

This is one of the best all around laptops ever. Apple seems to have gotten the message and made these more affordable too. I mostly use this for web browsing and managing my consulting business, but developing on this machine has not been unheard of.

iPhone 16 Pro

I was plenty happy with my 15 Pro but when I switched mobile providers I got a free upgrade. The integration with my Macbook Air is really amazing.

iPad Air

This is a handy companion for reading, working in NotePlan (see below), or browsing the web when I am not at my desk.

Development

Neovim

God’s own editor, new and improved.

Wezterm

Wezterm is a GPU-accelerated cross platform terminal emulator. I love Wezterm because I can have the same terminal program on every OS I use.

Firefox Developer Edition

Does Mozilla make good business decisions? No, no it doesn’t. But this is still a great browser, and can be extremely privacy friendly with the right extensions.

Gitea

Ever since GitHub started training Copilot on public repos, I have pulled my private repos into a self-hosted Gitea instance. I have zero faith they aren’t training Copilot on private repos too.

Hosting

Hetzner

With the current US government that is in place, I have no desire to host my sites in a US datacenter. Hetzner is really affordable and reliable.

Productivity

NotePlan

Markdown notes, calendar, and to-do lists all in one app. It’s amazing. Replaces 3 different apps and paid subscriptions for me.

Obsidian

Even though NotePlan is now my second brain, I still have vaults in Obsidian for specific projects I work on. It is still an awesome Markdown notes app.