uses

This is a "uses" page, which details what I use on a daily basis in my work as a developer and general computing nerd, as well as other tools, utilities and resources that I find handy and wish to share with others. The concept was popularized by uses.tech.

I try to keep this list current. In order to keep myself honest, I'll display the last updated date here, so I can be publicly ridiculed when I get out of date.

Last updated: 16 March 2026

Hardware

Class	Thing	Used for
Personal Laptop	Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 2	Code, Web browsing, Primary "Compute" system
Work laptop	Macbook Pro M1	Primary work laptop, mostly for webdev
Desktop	Custom built, AMD Ryzen 3800x	Gaming Home Theater PC
Mobile	Motorola Razr+ 2024	Doomscrolling and wasting time
E-Reader	Onyx Boox Note Air 3c	eink Android tablet. Great for books and I use it for choral events to track my music as well.
Keyboard	Keychron Q8 Alice with MELETRIX WS Grey switches.	A lot of typing.
Over-the-ear Headphones	Audio-Technica ATH-M50x	Conference calls, Music listening
In-ear Headphones	Moondrop Kato	"sit and listen" music sessions
Audio Amplifier	HIBY FC4	Used mostly with the IEMs, "sit and listen" music

Software

Class	Tool of Choice	Notes
Personal Laptop OS	openSUSE Tumbleweed	Moved from Endeavour to Bluefin/Aurora for a time. Currently trying openSUSE as a pilot.
Display Manager	GNOME	Default for the distribution. Would like to play with a tiling WM again, but the integrated functionality provided by the DM is holding me back.
Text Editor	emacs	Been a long-time vimmer; currently using the Doom Emacs package set to give me something comfortable feeling.
Web Browser	Vivaldi	Love having tree-view tabs on the left side of the screen.
Shell	fish	Decorated with Starship. Incorporated atuin to handle history, and moved from bash because of the ble requirement.
Notes	Emacs Org Mode	Syncing between my devices with Syncthing. Moved off of LogSeq because I was already re-attaching to Emacs. Using Orgzly on the Android phone to keep notes there.