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~~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. ❤️

🚘 Daily Drivers

MacBook Pro (14-inch) Apple M3 Pro (12‑core CPU, 18‑core GPU) 🏎️💨 36 GB RAM 1 TB SSD Space Black 🖤 iPhone 15 Pro 512 GB in Natural Titanium TORRAS Magnetic Shockproof Case (surprisingly nice, also in Natural Titanium) iPad Pro 10.5" 256 GB in Space Gray Smart Keyboard & Apple Pencil Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS) Aluminum – Space Gray 40mm (I have incredibly small wrists.) Usually with the{" "} Midnight Blue sport band , 🏳️‍🌈{" "} Pride Edition woven nylon band , or employee 🏋️{" "} Close Your Rings Challenge woven nylon band . Google Pixel 4a For some recreational Android development and experimentation. Activated on Google Fi ( referral link) during rare trips. Really just putting this here in a futile effort to prove I'm not a complete Apple sheep. 🐑

🧪 Homelab

UniFi Dream Router , plus: 2x{" "} Switch Flex Mini SmartPower Plug{" "} (It's Comcastic!™) Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2x recertified{" "} 16TB WD Ultrastar {" "} drives Plex {" "} (installed as a package via{" "} syno.plexupdate {" "} for hardware encoding) A 🥧 Raspberry Pi cluster with: 1x Raspberry Pi 4B, 8GB RAM Running Home Assistant OS with a{" "} SkyConnect USB Dongle 2x Raspberry Pi 5, 4GB RAM Running{" "} a few Docker containers, including: Nextcloud Sonarr, Radarr,{" "} Bazarr,{" "} Prowlarr qBittorrent (web client) Tautulli WireGuard Traefik Authelia Full post with more details coming soon! An overpowered custom homelab server, powered by an{" "} ASUS Q87M-E board,{" "} i7-4790S , 32 GB of RAM, 2x recertified{" "} 16TB WD Ultrastar {" "} drives, and Proxmox VE, in a cheap Thermaltake Versa H22 case with expensive Noctua 🤎 fans.

💾 Development

iTerm 2 My various{" "} ZSH aliases and{" "} functions are in{" "} my .dotfiles repository. Oh My ZSH zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting Visual Studio Code All of my settings. Themes: GitHub Dark theme Material Icon theme SF Mono font Extensions: EditorConfig ESLint GitHub Pull Requests GitHub Repositories Import Cost MDX Prettier Remote Development Pack Stylelint Word Count Homebrew View my messy Brewfile dump {" "} with all of my installed packages. Xcode Docker Desktop Parallels Desktop Pro Switched from VMware Fusion when Parallels beat them to the punch with{" "} M1 support. Sketch Adobe Creative Cloud Still on the $20/month{" "} Student Plan, somehow. 🤫 Will need to re-evaulate once I'm kicked off; it's hard to justify spending almost 3x that... Transmit ~~Sequel Pro~~ {" "} →{" "} TablePlus ~~Robo 3T~~ {" "} →{" "} TablePlus ImageOptim Sip Local {" "} for WordPress development.

🌎 Browsing

Firefox {" "} 🦊 My default user.js settings. Extensions: 1Password Classic BetterTTV Dark Reader Decentraleyes Mailvelope React Developer Tools OctoLinker Privacy Badger uBlock Origin Google Chrome {" "} 😈 For testing only! See more of my de-Googling efforts below. Extensions: AMP Validator Lighthouse React Developer Tools

💻 macOS

1Password Little Snitch iStat Menus Backblaze {" "} (referral link) Silicon Info MacUpdater AppCleaner GPG Suite ~~VLC~~ →{" "} IINA Transmission Amphetamine TG Pro coconutBattery Keka Ivory

📱 iOS

I have far too many apps to count, but here the essentials that have earned a spot on my home screen:

1Password (beta) Waze (beta) Pocket Casts Sling TV Plex (beta) Discord UniFi {" "} and{" "} WiFiman

☁️ Cloud

I've been making recent efforts to de-Google my life, with mixed results...

~~Gmail~~ →{" "} Fastmail {" "} (referral link) &{" "} Mail.app ~~Google Drive~~ → ~~Dropbox~~ →{" "} iCloud Drive Read why. ~~Google Docs~~ →{" "} Microsoft Office {" "} (hey, it works 🤷) ~~Google Photos~~ →{" "} iCloud Photos ~~Google Analytics~~ →{" "} Fathom Analytics {" "} (referral link) ~~Google Public DNS~~ →{" "} Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 {" "} on my home network. ~~GoDaddy~~ → ~~Google Domains~~ →{" "} Cloudflare Registrar {" "} (and{" "} ISNIC {" "} for this domain, of course 🇮🇸)

Other geeky stuff:

Vercel {" "} and{" "} Netlify {" "} for "serverless" sites. DigitalOcean {" "} (referral link) and{" "} Linode {" "} (referral link) for virtual Linux servers. DNSimple {" "} (referral link) and{" "} Cloudflare {" "} for domain DNS. Backblaze {" "} (referral link) for off-site Mac backups. Gitea {" "} as a self-hosted Git backup/mirror. Tailscale {" "} and{" "} Cloudflare Zero Trust {" "} to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere.

🏠 Internet of Things Crap

Philips Hue {" "} color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc. 2x{" "} ecobee3 lite 2x{" "} Sonos One {" "} (with Alexa turned off...hopefully? 🤫) 2x{" "} Apple TV 4K (2021) ); }