Well, since everyone else seems to have a cool /uses page, I figured I might as well put one up myself.
Applications
- Terminal w/ oh-my-zsh running gruvbox theme for linux + WSL
- Terminal w/ oh-my-posh running gruvbox theme & Terminal Icons for Powershell
- Alacritty with Oh my Zsh and Tmux for the laptop.
- Steam - Gaming
- Discord - Gaming and keeping in touch with friends/community
- EarTrumpet - Best windows sound manager ever and it’s free.
- Git CLI - local Gitea for private stuff, github for everything else
- VSCode w/ you guessed it, the gruvbox theme.
- Obsidian - I use this religiously, with templates and plugins you can do literally anything with this free software.
- Raindrop.io - One of the best bookmark apps around…free as well.
- ProtonVPN - For when I’m out and about
- ProtonMail - recently switched off of my google workspace plan and have never been happier.
- 1Password - Been using them since they first came out and they’ve only gotten better.
- Docker
Sound/Music
- Sennheiser 599 Open back
- Linsoul Kiwi Ears Quintet IEM
- SMSL D10 Pocket Portable Headphone Amp (this and the Linsoul Kiwi are my everyday carry) - Spotify, SomaFM , ReListen for all the grateful dead on archive.org and then my own instance of Navidrome
Hosting
- Porkbun - I use to own a LOT of domains and have used many registrars but Porkbun right now is the best in my opinion, great customer support, they’re US based (Oregon!), a working API and constant deals. Plus they haven’t had any of the issues that other big registrars have faced regarding locking people out of their accounts, getting social-engineered or straight up hacked. Plus they’ve made little piggie icons for their popular domains.
- Hetzner - Not only is their cloud offering on decent equipment, but fast and cheap. Why rely on 3rd party services when you do it yourself?
- Cloudflare - CDN/DDOS protection on the cheap (free depending on your needs)
- BackBlaze - $6 per TB and they free egress if downloading through one of their partners like Cloudflare.
- Fastmail.com and Protonmail - Both cheap, secure and have great support for teams/small biz. I’ve used both.
I’m skipping a bunch of categories and most likely leaving a bunch of stuff out but if you have any questions, especially about self-hosting or home-networking in general feel free to reach out! I love talking about FOSS and DIY setups.
Cheers,
~Brent