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 In order to keep myself honest, I'll display the last updated date here, so I can be publicly ridiculed when I get out of date.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 May 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 | Fiio BTR17 | Used mostly with the IEMs, "sit and listen" music (with Bluetooth ability) |
Software
| Class | Tool of Choice | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Laptop OS | Aurora | Used OpenSuSE until it decided to have massive font rendering problems. Trying out Aurora again, may move over to CachyOS depending on how well it works. |
| Display Manager | KDE | Using Kröhnkite As a script to provide tiling window support. Not quite i3, but has better ecosystem support. |
| 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. |