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.