Uses

What I use

The hardware, software, configuration and self-hosted tools that make up my daily setup. This page is inspired by the Uses page.

Kayleigh Pilgrim's home office

Hardware

Laptop: MSI Vector GP68HX 13VH, i9-13950HX, 64GB RAM, RTX 4080

Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G55T

Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro

Mouse: Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro

Headphones: Bose QuietComfort Ultra

Screenbar light: BenQ Halo

Tablet: iPad Air 13" with Magic Keyboard and Pencil Pro

Software

OS: EndeavourOS on desktop, Debian on servers

IDE: PhpStorm for Laravel, NeoVim for everything else

Shell: Oh My Zsh & Powerlevel10k (Bash on servers)

Daily tools: Kitty, Tmux, Git, Chrome, Thunderbird, Bitwarden

Email & Productivity: Google Workspace

Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font with ligatures

AI: A mix of Claude (code), ChatGPT (general) and Gemini (image generation)

Homelab & self-hosted tools

Home Assistant: Smart home automation

KanBoard: I always have BigBoard with multiple kanban boards open to keep me focused and organized

MediaWiki: All my notes, documentation and research in one place

n8n: Automation workflows

Immich: Self-hosted photo management

Jellyfin: Self-hosted Netflix-like app

Wakapi: Like a fitbit for code, tracks my coding statistics in all IDE's I use

FreshRSS: Keeps track of articles from RSS feeds I like to read

Monitoring: Icinga2 + Prometheus + Grafana

Automation: Puppet + Ansible

Webservers: Nginx + PHP-fpm + MariaDB + Redis + Supervisor (all heavily tuned, planning to test FrankenPHP soon)

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