import PageTitle from "../../components/PageTitle"; import { metadata as defaultMetadata } from "../layout"; export const metadata = { title: "/uses", description: "Things I use daily.", openGraph: { ...defaultMetadata.openGraph, title: "/uses", url: "/uses", }, alternates: { ...defaultMetadata.alternates, canonical: "/uses", }, }; Uses ~~I regularly get messages asking about which tools I use to work.~~ Nobody has asked me what I use. Ever. But here's a list of my daily drivers and necessities anyways, mostly revolving around my Apple sheepy-ness. Inspired by [many, many others](https://uses.tech/). โค๏ธ ![My mess of a desktop.](./desktop.png) ## ๐Ÿš˜  Daily Drivers - [**MacBook Pro** (14-inch)](https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/4493541) - Apple M3 Pro (12โ€‘core CPU, 18โ€‘core GPU) ๐ŸŽ๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ - 36 GB RAM - 1 TB SSD - Space Black ๐Ÿ–ค - **iPhone 15 Pro** - 512 GB in Natural Titanium - [Anker MagGo Matte case](https://a.co/d/75zuyyY) (surprisingly nice!) - **iPad Pro 10.5"** - 256 GB in Space Gray - Smart Keyboard & Apple Pencil - **Apple Watch Series 9** (Cellular + GPS) - Aluminum โ€“ Midnight - 41mm (I have incredibly small wrists.) - Usually with the [Midnight Blue sport band](https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLL02ZM/A/42mm-midnight-blue-sport-band-s-m-m-l), ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ [Pride Edition woven nylon band](https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MQ4F2AM/A/38mm-pride-edition-woven-nylon), or employee ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ [Close Your Rings Challenge woven nylon band](https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/03/apple-employees-rewards-challenge/). ## ๐Ÿงช  Homelab - [**UniFi Dream Machine SE**](https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udm-se), plus: - [Switch Enterprise 8 PoE](https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/usw-enterprise-8-poe) - 2x [U7 Pro access points](https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/u7-pro) - 2x [Switch Flex Mini 2.5G](https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/usw-flex-2-5g-5) - [UCI modem](https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uci) _([It's Comcastic!โ„ข](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1tHr4Y_cI))_ - [**Synology DiskStation DS224+**](https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS224+) - 2x recertified [16TB WD Ultrastar](https://serverpartdeals.com/products/western-digital-ultrastar-dc-hc550-wuh721816ale6l4-0f38462-16tb-7-2k-rpm-sata-6gb-s-512e-512mb-3-5-se-manufacturer-recertified-hdd) drives - [**Plex**](https://www.plex.tv/personal-media-server/) (installed as a package via [`syno.plexupdate`](https://github.com/michealespinola/syno.plexupdate) for hardware encoding) - 2x [**Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro**](https://www.servethehome.com/dell-optiplex-7060-micro-tinyminimicro-at-65w-tdp-cpu-overview/) mini PCs - Both are running [**Proxmox VE**](https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview) with various VMs and LXC containers spread between the two, including: - [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) - [Homebridge](https://homebridge.io/) - [Scrypted](https://www.scrypted.app/) - [Homepage](https://gethomepage.dev/) - [Gitea](https://about.gitea.com/) - [Immich](https://immich.app/) - [Sonarr](https://sonarr.tv/), [Radarr](https://radarr.video/), [Bazarr](https://www.bazarr.media/), [Prowlarr](https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr) - [qBittorrent](https://www.qbittorrent.org/) (web client) - [Tautulli](https://tautulli.com/) - [Traefik](https://traefik.io/traefik/) - [Authelia](https://www.authelia.com/) - Full post with more details coming soon! ## ๐Ÿ’พ  Development - [**iTerm 2**](https://iterm2.com/) - My various [ZSH aliases](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles/blob/main/zsh/aliases.zsh) and [functions](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles/blob/main/zsh/functions.zsh) are in [my `.dotfiles` repository.](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles) - [Oh My ZSH](https://ohmyz.sh/) - [zsh-autosuggestions](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions) - [zsh-syntax-highlighting](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting) - [**Visual Studio Code**](https://code.visualstudio.com/) - [All of my settings.](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles/tree/main/vscode) - Themes: - [GitHub Dark theme](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.github-vscode-theme) - [Material Icon theme](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PKief.material-icon-theme) - [SF Mono font](https://developer.apple.com/fonts/) - Extensions: - [EditorConfig](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig) - [ESLint](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dbaeumer.vscode-eslint) - [GitHub Pull Requests](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github) - [Import Cost](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wix.vscode-import-cost) - [MDX](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=unifiedjs.vscode-mdx) - [Prettier](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode) - [Stylelint](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stylelint.vscode-stylelint) - [**Homebrew**](https://brew.sh/) - [View my messy `Brewfile` dump](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles/blob/main/Brewfile) with all of my installed packages. - [**Xcode**](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/) - [**Docker Desktop**](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) - [**Parallels Desktop Pro**](https://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/) - Switched from VMware Fusion when Parallels beat them to the punch with [M1 support](https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-m1/). - [**Sketch**](https://www.sketch.com/) - [**Adobe Creative Cloud**](https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html) - Still on the $20/month [Student Plan](https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html), somehow. ๐Ÿคซ Will need to re-evaulate once I'm kicked off; it's hard to justify spending almost 3x that... - [**Transmit**](https://panic.com/transmit/) - [~~Sequel Pro~~](https://www.sequelpro.com/) โ†’ [**TablePlus**](https://tableplus.com/) - [~~Robo 3T~~](https://robomongo.org/) โ†’ [**TablePlus**](https://tableplus.com/) - [**ImageOptim**](https://imageoptim.com/mac) - [**Sip**](https://sipapp.io/) - [**Local**](https://localwp.com/) for WordPress development. ## ๐ŸŒŽ  Browsing - [**Firefox**](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) ๐ŸฆŠ - [My default `user.js` settings.](https://github.com/jakejarvis/dotfiles/blob/main/firefox/user.js) - Extensions: - [1Password](https://1password.com/downloads/browser-extension) - [Dark Reader](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/) - [React Developer Tools](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtools/) - [OctoLinker](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/octolinker/) - [Privacy Badger](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/) - [Raindrop.io](https://raindrop.io/) - [uBlock Origin](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/) ## ๐Ÿ’ป  macOS - [**1Password**](https://1password.com/) - [**Little Snitch**](https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) - [**iStat Menus**](https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/) - [**Backblaze**](https://www.backblaze.com/) ([referral link](https://secure.backblaze.com/r/00x84e)) - [**Raindrop.io**](https://raindrop.io/) - [**MacUpdater**](https://www.corecode.io/macupdater/) - [**AppCleaner**](https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/) - [**GPG Suite**](https://gpgtools.org/) - ~~VLC~~ โ†’ [**IINA**](https://iina.io/) - [**Transmission**](https://transmissionbt.com/) - [**Amphetamine**](https://roaringapps.com/app/amphetamine) - [**TG Pro**](https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/tgpro/) - [**Keka**](https://www.keka.io/en/) ## ๐Ÿ“ฑ  iOS I have far too many apps to count, but here the essentials that have earned a spot on my home screen: - [**1Password** (beta)](https://apps.apple.com/app/id568903335) - [**Waze** (beta)](https://apps.apple.com/app/id323229106) - [**Pocket Casts**](https://apps.apple.com/app/id414834813) - [**Raindrop.io**](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1021913807) - [**Plex** (beta)](https://apps.apple.com/app/id383457673) - [**Discord**](https://apps.apple.com/app/id985746746) - [**UniFi**](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1057750338) and [**WiFiman**](https://apps.apple.com/app/id1385561119) ## โ˜๏ธ  Cloud I've been making recent efforts to [de-Google](/zip) my life, with mixed results... - ~~Gmail~~ โ†’ [**Fastmail**](https://www.fastmail.com/) ([referral link](https://ref.fm/u20274504)) & [**Mail.app**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mail) - ~~Google Drive~~ โ†’ ~~Dropbox~~ โ†’ [**iCloud Drive**](https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive) - [Read why.](/notes/dropping-dropbox) - ~~Google Docs~~ โ†’ [**Microsoft Office**](https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/microsoft-office-for-mac) (hey, it works ๐Ÿคท) - ~~Google Photos~~ โ†’ [**iCloud Photos**](https://www.icloud.com/photos/) and [**Immich**](https://immich.app/) - ~~Google Analytics~~ โ†’ [**Fathom Analytics**](https://usefathom.com/) ([referral link](https://usefathom.com/ref/ZEYG0O)) - ~~Google Public DNS~~ โ†’ [**Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1**](https://1.1.1.1/dns/) on my home network. - ~~GoDaddy~~ โ†’ ~~Google Domains~~ โ†’ [**Cloudflare Registrar**](https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/) (and [**ISNIC**](https://isnic.is/en/) for this domain, of course ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ) Other geeky stuff: - [**Vercel**](https://vercel.com/) and [**Netlify**](https://www.netlify.com/) for "serverless" sites. - [**DigitalOcean**](https://www.digitalocean.com/) ([referral link](https://m.do.co/c/afcf288a7dac)) and [**Linode**](https://www.linode.com/) ([referral link](https://www.linode.com/?r=0c5aeace9bd591be9fbf32f96f58470295f1ee05)) for virtual Linux servers. - [**DNSimple**](https://dnsimple.com/) ([referral link](https://dnsimple.com/r/eb6ced548f1e0a)) and [**Cloudflare**](https://www.cloudflare.com/) for domain DNS. - [**Backblaze**](https://www.backblaze.com/) ([referral link](https://secure.backblaze.com/r/00x84e)) for off-site Mac backups. - [**Gitea**](https://gitea.io/en-us/) as a [self-hosted](https://git.jrvs.io/) Git backup/mirror. - [**Tailscale**](https://tailscale.com/) to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere. ## ๐Ÿ   Internet of ~~Things~~ Crap - [**Philips Hue**](https://www2.meethue.com/en-us) color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc. - 2x [**ecobee3 lite**](https://www.ecobee.com/en-us/smart-thermostats/smart-wifi-thermostat/) - 2x [**Sonos One**](https://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/one.html) (with Alexa turned off...hopefully? ๐Ÿคซ) - 2x [**Apple TV 4K** (2021)](https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-4k/)