Uses

I have been asked to compile a list of hardware, tools and services I use on a daily basis. This is that list.

Hardware

Desktop

• Mac mini M2 Pro 32GB
• LG UltraFine Ergo 4K 27"
• Glove 80
• Apple Magic Trackpad
• Thronmax MDrill One Pro
• Logitech C920 HD Pro

Software

Code editor

• Zed - excellent speed, vim mode and good enough support for many languages
• Neovim - for editing one-off files

Command line tools

• Ghostty - fast and simple terminal emulator
• zsh + oh-my-zsh - slightly better experience than bash
• jq - instead of writing a script to parse JSON, I can just use jq
• tig - quickly see git changes and history
• lazydocker - visualize everything happening in Docker in a single screen
• pandoc - converting markdown to PDFs
• Typst - simple way to produce beautiful document

Productivity

• Raycast - quick access to meeting links no matter if they are in Google Calendar, Zoom or Teams
• yabai - reduces time spent jumping between windows
• Things - my primary capture system
• Flow - pomodoro tool with distraction blocking functionality

Knowledge management

• Obsidian - creating notes from courses, books and saving interesting articles
• Excalidraw - visually explaining things while facilitating and brainstorming solutions
• Instapaper - reading saved articles on a Kindle

Artificial intelligence

• Ollama - running local models
• Github Copilot - writing boilerplate code faster, also it is integrated into development environment and isn’t causing context switching
• Perplexity - for more complex queries