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.
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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