Uses

The gear and software I actually use day-to-day. Inspired by /uses pages. I'll refresh this when something meaningful swaps in or out.

Hardware

• Laptop — a 6-year-old HP, 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD. Still hits its marks for the work I throw at it.
• Display — old LG external monitor for the second screen.
• Keyboard — Cosmic Byte Artemis (white).
• Mouse — Logitech G102.
• Audio — OnePlus Buds R2 for calls + music.

OS

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS — recently moved over from Windows (see /now). Smoother out of the gate; fewer surprises.
• GNOME desktop + GNOME Terminal.
• bash— haven't bothered with zsh; the defaults are fine.

Editor

• VS Code — the OG, still my daily.
• Theme— Dark (Visual Studio), the C/C++ extension's variant.
• Extensions I'd struggle without: Error Lens, GitLens, markdownlint, Prettier, Remote SSH, Todo Tree, Auto Rename Tag.

Dev tooling

• pnpm by default; whatever the stack at work needs otherwise.
• nvm for Node version juggling.
• Docker for anything containerised.
• Beekeeper Studio when I need a SQL client.
• Postman + Swagger for poking at APIs.

Productivity

• Notion for notes.
• ClickUp for tasks.
• YouTubefor music — videos and all, I'm one of those.
• Off Instagram right now.