What I use:
Email me with any suggestions for improvements. Last update: 2026-06-07
hardware
- Silent PC I got in 2013, still working great
- LG DualUp vertical monitor ♥
- Keychron Q3 keyboard with Kailh Midnight Pro silent switches ♥
- Onyx Boox Go 6 ebook reader
- Studiobricks One Plus sound-proof recording booth
- AT5040 microphone
- Macbook Air M2 for recording and travel
- Focal Bathys headphones
- Panasonic GH-5 camera now only for video interviews
- Kensington Expert Mouse since 1995
- Pixel 10 phone running GrapheneOS
- Industrial Athletic squat rack, barbell, plates, and bench, right next to my PC so a few times per day I stop and do 5 reps, AKA “5×5”
- Rowing machine, 20 minutes a day as per Dark Horse
- Surly Preamble bicycle, modded electric
- Nissan Leaf car
software
- OpenBSD on my server
- Void Linux on my desktop
- Ratpoison wm ♥
- st terminal
- mksh shell
- Vim, for all text
- PostgreSQL, for all data
- Go and Ruby programming languages
- Nginx web server
- OpenSMTPD email server
- Radicale to privately self-host my contacts and calendar, synced to my phone
- Firefox browser with uBlock Origin and Link Hints
- Everything but Firefox in the terminal, so command-line tools like mutt for email, ffmpeg and mpv for audio/video, mupdf for ebooks, and ssh everywhere.
- Skritter and Wenlin for learning Chinese.
services
- Vultr basic $10/month public server
- Sendamatic for outgoing email
- Bunny CDN for m.sive.rs media files
- Netim domain registrar
- Kagi for ad-free spam-free search
- OpenRouter via llm in the terminal
- Hacker News for random inputs