Uses

All the things I use! To see other /uses pages, check out uses.tech.

Apps

General

• 1Password for password management
• Arc for browsing the web
• Cleanshot X for screenshots
• Discord for messaging
• Obsidian for documents/notes
• Spotify for music

Development

• Visual Studio Code since I can't figure out how to configure Neovim for a feature-rich and extendable editor
• kitty for a snappy and configurable terminal

Utilities

• Hyperduck for sending URLs from my phone to computer
• IINA for media playback
• KnockKnock for system scanning
• Maccy for quick clipboard history access
• Oversight for camera and microphone monitoring
• PurePaste for automatic clipboard cleaning
• Raycast for an improved Spotlight search
• Rectangle for window snapping
• System Color Picker for a supercharged color picker

Browser Extensions

• 1Password
• Bypass Paywalls Clean for bypassing annoying news paywalls
• Refined GitHub for GitHub enhancements
• Stylus for theming websites with Catppuccin
• uBlock Origin for advertisement and tracker blocking

Developer tools

Package management

• fnm for Node.js version management
• Homebrew for macOS package management

Shell

• bat for cat with syntax highlighting (viewing file contents)
• bottom as a nicer top (system monitoring)
• dust instead of du (disk usage analyzer)
• eza for a colorful ls replacement
• fd for a faster find
• fzf for fuzzy finding
• gitui to make terminal Git easier
• yazi to manage, view, and quickly edit files
• Antidote for managing Zsh plugins
• Atuin for magical shell history
• Fish for a user-friendly & fast shell
• Fisher for managing Fish plugins
• Himalaya to manage emails
• Newsboat (with fn) as a feed reader
• Starship for a customizable prompt

Services

• Cloudflare Pages for hosting recent static sites
• Cloudflare for DNS
• GitHub for project source code hosting
• Railway for some hosting
• Umami for simple, privacy-respecting analytics
• Vercel for web-app hosting

Hardware

• DT 770 Pro headphones
• Glorious Model O (white) mouse
• MacBook Pro 13" (2020 M1) as my daily driver
• Custom-built Bakeneko 65% keyboard, with Akko Pink switches and white/lavender keycaps