My working setup
Updated June, 2024
Here’s how I currently do my work, both personal and professional.
- iPad
- Mac
- Terminal with
Oh-my-zsh for terminal-ly good looks (and shortcuts)
- Doom Emacs - I wrote about doom emacs for
blogging
- Roon - Can’t work without music!
- Visual Studio - replaced TextMate and SublimeText and haven’t looked back; strange for me to say that for a Microsoft product (different than say GitHub, which was an acquisition)
- 1Password - long-time user
- Trello - Despite the Atlassian acquisition, this is still my go-to for just a general purpose throw it up and track it. Using the
Assista bot for time tracking on tickets I drag into the
Doing list - it helps a lot with billable work, but also helps me track where my play time goes. - yt-dlp -
it’s a secret
- CyberDuck - connect to anything for remote file access/management
- Homebrew - I see no reason to leave this hardy package manager - it’s just worked under brutal conditions for years and years.
- Home network
- Fiber, it’s the only way to fly
- Unifi network throughout house; wired (by hand, blood, dust, cobwebs, and pink spackle) and wireless
- Pi-hole - remove all the craptasic stuff out there, network-wide
- Tailscale - take my networks with me securely (recent addition so lots to learn)
- SaaS
- Cloudflare - it’s the only online service that I don’t have a fear of recommending. Yes, there might be some issues from the centralization of the decentralized web, but right now, that’s not a critical path issue.
- Hugo - The most performant, flexible, and joyous web development platform. This site and my
LLC and
Synth company are built with it.