Uses

List of hardware and software stuff I use on a daily basis. Mostly for my own present (and future) reference, but also for anyone curious.

Hardware

Work

• 2021 MacBook Pro (14in) with MacOS Ventura
• 27in Dell Monitor (2K) - as main screen.
• 24in AOC Monitor (1080p) - as secondary screen.

Personal

Manually assembled PC:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT - CPU.
• Sapphire Nitro+ RX 5700XT - GPU.
• ASUS ROG Strix B550-F - Motherboard.
• G.Skill Trident Z 16GB (2x8) DDR4 3600MHz - RAM.
• OS (dual boot): Windows 10 for gaming; Pop! OS Linux for some work and some gaming.

Peripherals

• Logitech MX Master 3 Logitech MX Vertical - as mouse for work.
• Logitech G305 - as mouse for gaming.
• Nuphy Air 75 - a main low profile mechanical keyboard.
• Sennheiser HD559 - as headphones.
• Samson Q2U - as external microphone.
• RODE A1 - as audio interface for the microphone.
• A computer stand for alternating between seating and standing while working.

Software

GIS/Remote Sensing

• QGIS - as main GIS program.
• Google Earth Engine - as main remote sensing processing platform.
• RGEE - to use Google Earth Engine in R.
• Kart - for versioning GIS data as if using git.

Writing

• MarkText MarkEdit - for shorter individual markdown files.
• Quarto (in VSCodium) - for everything from text to presentations.
• Libreoffice - for doc and csv files.
• Onlyoffice - because LO is still a pain to use on MacOS with larger documents.

Editing

• Affinity Suite - for more complicated works.
• Gimp - for less taxing tasks.
• Inkscape - for lighter vector editing.
• OBS - for recording.
• LosslessCut - to quickly edit and merge recordings.

Coding

• VSCodium - as my main IDE.
• ITerm2 Kitty WezTerm - as terminal emulator (with Victor Mono Nerd Font).
• Z shell (+ Oh My Zsh Zap as plugin manager for some plugins) Fish shell + Fisher for very few plugins.
• Fig.io - for interactive command suggestions.
• OpenInTerminal - to quickly open a terminal at a specific folder location.
• Homebrew - as my package manager.
• BBEdit Sublime Text - as a quick text editor.
• Helix - as a quick terminal text editor
• R (in VSCodium) - as main coding language.

Services

• Github - for hosting code and projects where I need to collaborate.
• Codeberg - for more personal stuff.
• Netlify - for website hosting.
• Self-hosted Forgejo - for personal websites and other personal things.

Themes

• Catppuccin for almost everything (this blog too).

Utilities

• AltTab - for windows-like switching between tabs on macOS.
• KeepingYouAwake - prevent mac to go on sleep mode
  • I created this workflow for interacting through Alfred.
• Bartender - to arrange menu bar icons.
• Syncthing - to sync files between my computers and phone.
• Wireguard - as VPN tunnel (to make Mullvad and NextDNS to work well in tandem)
• MullvadVPN - as VPN client.
• NextDNS - to block ads and trackers at the DNS level.
• Tailscale - to interact with local servers.
• Lulu - to have more control on outgoing connections.
• Freetube - as client to watch youtube through Invidious.
• CleanshotX - for screenshots and annotating on the fly.
• Backblaze - for continuous off-site backups.
• Cider - to listen to apple music.
• Ferdium - to open Whatsapp and other things without downloading their apps.
• Cryptomator - to encrypt things on drive folders.
• ImageMagick - to quickly convert and resize image from the command line.
• svgo - to quickly optimize svg from the command line. I've posted my config here.
• yt-dlp - to easily download online videos.
• Startpage - as main search engine
• LibreY - as backup search engine (using this instance) Self-hosted SearXNG for backup and personal use.

Management

• Silverbullet - for note-taking and project management.
• Obsidian - for personal tracking of movies/tv-shows.
• Todo.txt - methodology for todo lists.
• Pter - CLI tool for managing todo.txt.
• MountainDuck - for mounting cloud storage as local drives Still in search of a satisfying option.
• Raycast - to replace default Spotlight.
• Alfred - to replace default Spotlight + some workflows.
• Jabref - to manage my references and academic papers.
• Cal366 - to replace default calendar (and Fantastical).
• Thunderbird - to manage my email accounts.
• Sioyek/Skim - to read and annotate pdf.
• Homebank - to manage my finances.
• KeepassXC - to manage my passwords.

Reading

• Feedbin Miniflux - to manage my rss feeds.
• Netnewswire - to read rss feeds through Miniflux. Read why.
• Kindle Paperwhite - for reading ebooks (to be replaced sooner or later).
• Calibre - to transfer ebook to the e-reader.
• Onyx Boox Note Air 2 - for reading and annotating academic papers.

Browsers

• Firefox - hardened with Arkenfox for better privacy.
• Vivaldi - for website where it's more convenient to stay logged and when I need to keep tabs opened.
• Lynx for occasional website testings.
• Orion - as a more private alternative to Safari, for some webistes that breaks with Arkenfox. Using it very little as today.

Browser Extensions

• UblockOrigin - to block advertisement and trackers.
• KeepassXC - to autofill passwords.
• Raindrop - to manage my bookmarks across different machines.
• BibItNow! - to quickly extract citations in bib style from a web page.
• Jabref - to send bibliographic info to Jabref desktop app.
• LibRedirect - to redirect to more privacy-friendly frontends.
• LanguageTool - grammar and spellchecker.
• SimpleLogin - to manage email aliases.
• AnonAddy - to manage email aliases.
• Bypass Paywalls Clean - self-explanatory. When the options are "subscribe to access the content or be profiled", this extension becomes a necessity as much as Ublock.

iOS

• Orion - as main browser.
• Reeder5 - to read feeds through Miniflux.
• Overcast - to manage and listen podcasts subscriptions.
• Wireguard - as VPN tunnel (to make Mullvad and NextDNS to work well in tandem).
• RaivoOTP 2FAS Auth- to manage my 2FA codes.
• Strongbox - to manage my password using KeepassXC.
• 2Do-txt - gui app for todo.txt.
• Mobius Sync - to use Syncthing in iOS.