Uses
The tech I use day in and day out
Inspired by Wes Bos and his uses.tech project. It's all the tech and software I use at work and play. All of these are affiliate links so if you want to support me, you can buy some of these items through these links.
Hardware
- For my personal laptop, I use a Dell Latitude E5570. It's loaded up with a 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM.
- My work laptop is a Dell Presision 5530 with a 512 GB SSD, and 32 GB of RAM.
- My desktop is a custom PC in a Corsair Carbide case, with an Ryzen 9 3950x, an PNY XLR8 RTX 2080 Ti, 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. I also threw an old Gigabyte GTX 1060 in there to accelerate video editing and for machine learning workloads.
- My phone is a Pixel 7 Pro.
- I have an old server as well that I use to host some VMs and experiment. It's a Dell PowerEdge R710, loaded up with 10 TB of SAS drives and 48 GB of RAM.
Software
- For operatings systems, I use Windows 11 on my desktop and I use Ubuntu 23.10 on my laptop. On my servers I tend to run the latest LTS edition of Ubuntu Server.
- I run a Kubernetes cluster, specifically the microk8s distribution on some VMs for testing and tinkering.
- My programming languages of choice are TypeScript for frontend and C#/.NET Core for backend (although I've been using Go and HTMX more lately). I also know JavaScript, Golang and PowerShell and have some experience with Rust, Java, Python, Bash, and C/C++.
- As far as frontend frameworks go, my favorite is Svelte, but I also do a lot of work in Vue 3. I've played around with React and Angular but just haven't gravitated twoards them.
- My main IDE for web development and most anything else is Neovim.
- To manage my music and shows, I use Plex.
- I run a Home Assistant instance on my server to manage my smart home things.
- For keeping all my files in sync and backed up, I use Resilo Sync.
- I use Miniflux for my RSS reader.
Desk Setup
- My desk is a cheap 47" Tresanti standing desk from Costco.
- For a chair I use a Autonomus MayoChair.
- For monitors, I use two Samsung 34 inch S7 Monitors.
- My keyboard is a Royal Kludge RK100 with MX Brown switches.
- I use a Logitech G502 Hero Mouse.
- As desk speakers I use a pair of vintage bookshelf speakers along with a PYLE Audio Amplifier.
- For headphones I use a pair of Audio Technica M50x's.