💻 Uses

Inspired by many pages out there, I’ve put together this page detailing some of the important tools I use for those that may be interested.

🧮 Development

My personal operating system of choice is Arch Linux because it’s very easy to work with, simple, and incredibly up-to-date. I’ve used it since somewhere around 2015.

• Operating System: Arch Linux
• Window Manager: i3
• IDE: VSCodium. I also use Emacs for the excellent org-mode.
• Terminal emulator: URxvt
• shell: zsh with oh-my-zsh
• Terminal multiplexer: Tmux
• File Manager: thunar, ranger

I also use various terminal utilities and CLI tools that I use for scripting and just general shell surfing. Some of them that I want to give a shout-out to, in rapid fire:

• eza
• fd
• fzf
• htop
• httpstat
• moreutils
• ncdu
• ripgrep

Check my dotfiles.

🎲 Miscellaneous

• i3wm: keyboard-driven and tiling window manager.
• Firefox: I have a privacy-hardened setup with a custom user.js and with the following extensions:
  • ublock Origin
  • libredirect
  • videospeed
  • treestyletab
• Signal Messenger App using signal-cli.
• newsboat where I follow news sites, blogs and indie sites I love, certain Youtube channels, and changelogs for software I keep track of. I mostly read from the terminal with w3m.
• mpv: my video player of choice. Keyboard-driven, minimal UI. Also works with yt-dlp to stream youtube videos.
• pass: password manager with pass otp extension.
• buku: bookmark manager.

💳 Services

• NextDNS: a 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.
• Proton: a reliable, trustworthy email, VPN provider with all of the features you’d expect from such a service.

Curious about other uses pages? Check out uses.tech.