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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. โค๏ธ

My mess of a desktop.

๐Ÿš˜ Daily Drivers

MacBook Pro (14-inch) 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 (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 , ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ{" "} Pride Edition woven nylon band , or employee ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ{" "} Close Your Rings Challenge woven nylon band .

๐Ÿงช Homelab

UniFi Dream Machine SE , plus: Switch Enterprise 8 PoE 2x U7 Pro access points 2x Switch Flex Mini 2.5G UCI modem{" "} (It's Comcastic!โ„ข) Synology DiskStation DS224+ 2x recertified{" "} 16TB WD Ultrastar {" "} drives Plex {" "} (installed as a package via{" "} syno.plexupdate {" "} for hardware encoding) 2x{" "} Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro {" "} mini PCs Both are running{" "} Proxmox VE {" "} with various VMs and LXC containers spread between the two, including: Home Assistant Homebridge Scrypted Homepage Gitea Immich Sonarr, Radarr,{" "} Bazarr,{" "} Prowlarr qBittorrent (web client) Tautulli Traefik Authelia Full post with more details coming soon!

๐Ÿ’พ 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 Import Cost MDX Prettier Stylelint 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. ๐Ÿคซ Will need to re-evaulate once I'm kicked off; it's hard to justify spending almost 3x that... Transmit Sequel Pro {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus Robo 3T {" "} โ†’{" "} TablePlus ImageOptim Sip Local {" "} for WordPress development.

๐ŸŒŽ Browsing

Firefox {" "} ๐ŸฆŠ My default user.js settings. Extensions: 1Password Dark Reader React Developer Tools OctoLinker Privacy Badger Raindrop.io uBlock Origin

๐Ÿ’ป macOS

1Password Little Snitch iStat Menus Backblaze {" "} (referral link) Raindrop.io MacUpdater AppCleaner GPG Suite VLC โ†’{" "} IINA Transmission Amphetamine TG Pro Keka

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) Waze (beta) Pocket Casts Raindrop.io Plex (beta) Discord UniFi {" "} and{" "} WiFiman

โ˜๏ธ Cloud

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

Gmail โ†’{" "} Fastmail {" "} (referral link) &{" "} Mail.app Google Drive โ†’ Dropbox โ†’{" "} iCloud Drive Read why. Google Docs โ†’{" "} Microsoft Office {" "} (hey, it works ๐Ÿคท) Google Photos โ†’{" "} iCloud Photos {" "} and{" "} Immich Google Analytics โ†’{" "} Fathom Analytics {" "} (referral link) Google Public DNS โ†’{" "} Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 {" "} on my home network. GoDaddy โ†’ Google Domains โ†’{" "} Cloudflare Registrar {" "} (and{" "} ISNIC {" "} for this domain, of course ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ)

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 {" "} to access my home network and VPSes from anywhere.

๐Ÿ  Internet of Things Crap

Philips Hue {" "} color bulbs, dimmer switches, etc. 2x{" "} ecobee3 lite 2x{" "} Sonos One {" "} (with Alexa turned off...hopefully? ๐Ÿคซ) 2x{" "} Apple TV 4K (2021) ); }