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

• I use the font 🔥 fira code and 🖼️ MonoLisa

✔️ 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 in
• docker kill (docker ps -q) $argv: Kill all running Docker containers
• docker 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