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

Code editor

Visual Studio Code - fast startup time and good enough support for many languages
Vim emulation for Visual Studio Code - learn once, use everywhere

Command line tools

Alacritty - 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
Neovim - for editing one-off files, long term goal is to make it default editor

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

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 LLama.3.1 8B model
Github Copilot - writing boilerplate code faster, also it is integrated into development environment and isn’t causing context switching