Uses

The Hardware

• Apple Mac Mini M1 2020 - (just won't die)
• LG HDR Wide Screen Monitor
• NuPhy Air75 Backlit Mechanical Keyboard
• Apple Trackpad + MX Master III Mouse
• Homepod Mini for audio
• iPhone 17 Air
• Ubiquiti Dream Machine
• Synology NAS (DS420+)

macOS + iOS

• Safari: everything on iOS is technically Safari, so this is a bit of a concession to an operating system restriction. The experience of using Safari is quite nice—the privacy features, extension support, and so forth. -- The developer experience still lags behind other browsers.

• Drafts: A simple, polished text editor for IOS. It complements Obsidian nicely

• Obsidian: fast and configurable (or minimal) as you'd like; I use it for all of my notes and writing. Supports CLI!

• Parcel: the most flexible and reliable package tracker for Apple's ecosystem.

• Day One: an awesome journal app!

• MX Clients: eM Client

• Messaging: Signal, duh

• Tasks: Things III

• RSS: Feedly

• Launcher: Alfred

• VPN: Tailscale & Mullvad

• Podcasts: Overcast

• Touchup: Pixelmator Pro

• VEdit: Final Cut Pro

• Package Manager: Homebrew

• Code Editors: Sublime, VSC

• Terminal: iTerm / Oh-my-ZSH

iOS

• FontCase: for managing/installing fonts.

macOS

• Magnet: flexible, powerful window management.

• Mp3tag: a powerful utility for editing and managing music metadata (it also allows you to edit extended tags, which can be important when adding music to Navidrome).

• Permute: a useful utility for quickly converting files to different formats.

• noTunes: a lightweight utility that prevents Music.app from launching. It also allows you to set a new default music player.

Dev tools

• iTerm2: a feature-rich terminal app more flexible and powerful than the native macOS terminal.

Services

• BearBlog.dev: This sites home, “A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform”

• Fastmail: gold-standard email provider.

• Purelymail: It’s fast becoming my personal favorite. Talk about simple & affordable!

• Zoho Mail: Very reliable and stable platform.

• Addy.io: useful email alias provider. Very well managed, polished UI. Cheap

• AT&T DSL: backup connection, local network load balancing w/ Starlink

• Gen/3 Starlink: impressive speeds, fast ping, reliable AF. (Ditched 1-gig cable internet service, It’s that good)

• AT&T Mobility, duh…

• Coolify: web application management and deployment.

• Hetzner: a modern, reliable, VPS provider. Easy on the wallet too!

• Dynadot: preferred domain registrar. Love the iOS app. Account security is top notch

• Filen: privacy focused cloud storage. Very affordable

• Namecrane: Cheap and reliable. Owner is an amazing sysadmin!

• FreshRSS: not the prettiest RSS reader, but it's powerful, flexible, and reliable.

• raindrop.io: my go to remote bookmark service. Great iOS app as well.

• Goatcounter: lightweight, privacy-friendly, and performant analytics.

• Bäikal: a lightweight CardDAV and CalDAV server I use to sync contacts across devices (as Proton doesn't sync with local contacts). Ente Photos: end-to-end encrypted and open-source photo storage and management.

• bunny.net: affordable & user-friendly CDN & DNS host. I host the images for my site with them and use their optimizer/transforms heavily.

• Cloudflare: Gold Standard, wicked fast DNS caching platform. All for free.

• Backblaze: my go-to web storage platform. I use it to host the images for my site, back up my laptop, archive data, and back up Coolify databases.

• NextDNS: privacy-focused, set-it-and-forget-it DNS service. I use their security features on my home network and a profile with strict ad-blocking rules on all of my devices. Definitely saves on bandwidth