What do I use?
The following is a list of the tools that I use on a daily basis. This page was inspired by Wes Bros. See more pages like this here
- My dotfiles
🐧 OS + Hardware
- I am currently using Arch Linux
- I use the Gnome DE
- I use two 🖥️ 32" 4k monitors
- I use a ⌨️ Logitech G915 with GL clicky switches ⌨️ and an Logitech G502 🖱️
📑 Editor
Visual Studio Code is my current editor. I swapped over a few years ago from PyCharm
I use the 🧛 dracula theme
✔️ Terminal
- I use the 🧛 Dracula theme
- I use the alacritty terminal with Starship prompt
- I use fish 🐟 shell as my default shell
⚙️ Tools
Applications
- I use 🦊 Firefox as my main browser
- I use ⏱️ Timeshift to create backups
- I use 🪵 Logseq for taking notes
- I use 🦆 Mullvad as my VPN
- I use 🔒 Bitwarden as my password manager (is FOSS)
😟 Backups
My Backup strategy is as follows:
- I backup my entire computer locally using TimeShift
- I backup my entire computer remotely to BackBlaze using Restic
🧰 CLI Tools
- exa: ls replacement, used with exa aliases
- fzf: Really nice fuzzy search tool
- tldr: Simplified man pages
- gtop: System monitoring dashboard alternative to htop
- bat: A better version of
cat
- zoxide: A great tool for jumping between multiple directories.
Useful Commands:
git fetch -p && git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
: Delete branches locally that don’t exist on remote, i.e. have been merged indocker kill (docker ps -q) $argv
: Kill all running Docker containersdocker rm (docker ps -a -q) $argv
: Remove all killed Docker containers
Websites
Some website I use on the regular include:
Privacy Focused
- whoogle: Google frontend without ads, tracking etc
- Invidious: Open source youtube front-end
- teddit: Open source reddit front-end
- Goatcounter: Website analytics tools, without tracking