Uses
A non-exhaustive list of the things I use.
Hardware
- Laptop (personal)
- Model: HP EliteBook 840 G3
- OS: Fedora
- PC (personal) - built in March 2019
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- GPU: Asus ROG Radeon RX Vega 56 Strix OC
- RAM: 32GB DDR4
- OS: Windows
- Tablet
- Model: Apple iPad Pro 3, Wi‑Fi
- Size: 11 inch
- Storage: 128 GB
- Phone
- Model: Apple iPhone 12
- Storage: 128 GB
- Pointing
- Logitech MX Ergo Advanced Wireless Trackball
- Logitech M280
- Typing
- Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard (at home)
- Logitech Ergo K860 (at work)
- Monitor
- LG 34WL500-B 34 inch widescreen
Software
- Code Editors
- Visual Studio Code
- JetBrains Rider (…for all .NET things)
- Vim/neovim (…never closed it since I first opened it)
- Visual Studio (…for legacy stuff)
- Notepad++ (…never disappoints)
- Browser
- Firefox (developer edition where possible)
- Microsoft Edge for work
- Terminal
- Windows Terminal with PowerShell and Starship prompt on Windows
- Gnome Terminal with Zsh and Oh My Zsh on Fedora
- Theme of choice wherever possible is Dracula
- Email
- Providers
- ProtonMail
- Gmail
- Clients
- Thunderbird on desktop
- Apple Mail on mobile
- ProtonMail web client and app
- Providers
- Image editing
Software building blocks
This is only a subset of the things I use to develop software.
- .NET (Core, Framework, and everything in between)
- ASP.NET Core for building web applications
- Entity Framework Core to get my object into and from databases
- MediatR when I need a mediator
- FluentValidation to validate things
- xUnit.net for tests
- FluentAssertions to make my test assertions look nice
- Bogus provides me with fake data
- FakeItEasy to mock things
- CsvHelper because writing CSV importers will never go out of fashion
- React to build web frontends
- React Query to manage data fetching
- MUI for nice looking components
- MSAL for easy auth with AzureAD
- 11ty to build this website
- eleventy-img for build-time image transformations
- eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlighting produces pretty code blocks
- eleventy-plugin-rss generates an Atom feed
- eleventy-navigation for hierarchical navigation
Audio stuff
- Headphones
- beyerdynamic DT 880
- Bose QuietComfort 35
- Teufel Airy True Wireless
- Audio interface
- Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 3rd Gen
- Microphones
- Røde NT1
- Røde M3
- Blue Yeti
- Microphone arm
- Røde PSA1
- Mobile recorder
- ZOOM H4n (mine is over 10 years old!)
- MIDI Controller
- AKAI LPD8
- Digital piano
- Roland F701
- Stereo
- Teufel Kombo 62 CD-Receiver
- Q Acoustics 3030i
Photo stuff
- Cameras
- Canon EOS R6 Mark II
- Fujifilm X-T20
Canon EOS 70D(shot its last image in May 2023 in Kyoto, Japan, after nearly 9 years of service 😢)
Travel stuff
- Backpacks
- Fjällräven Räven 20
- millican Smith The Roll Pack 18l
- millican Fraser The Rucksack 32l
- Osprey Farpoint 40