What I use

Updated August 2026

Hardware

• MacBook Air M5, 24 GB RAM — everything happens here
• Custom desktop — AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, 64 GB RAM, Gigabyte X870 Gaming X WiFi7, 1 TB NVMe on btrfs — runs Omarchy
• 22" 1080p monitor — one screen is enough
• Pixel 9 Pro XL running GrapheneOS — de-Googled, talks to my own server for books, music and notifications
• Google Fitbit Air — sleep and fitness tracking, synced via Health Connect into my own health dashboard
• Keychron Q11 — split QMK mechanical keyboard
• Sony WH-1000XM4 — headphones
• Logitech MX Master 3S — mouse

Software

• AeroSpace — tiling window manager for macOS
• Omarchy — Arch + Hyprland on the desktop
• Neovim — text editor
• WezTerm — terminal
• fish — shell
• Chromium — browser
• Claude Code — AI pair for building and running my server
• Notion — personal wiki
• Todoist — tasks
• Telegram — messaging, plus my own AI bots living on my server

Self-hosted

• A Linux VPS running ~35 Docker containers behind a Caddy reverse proxy, including:
• Immich — photo library (Google Photos replacement)
• Audiobookshelf — audiobook library
• Actual Budget — budgeting
• Ghostfolio — net worth and investments
• Radicale — contacts and calendar (de-Googling, one server at a time)
• Memos — quick note capture
• Umami — privacy-friendly analytics for this site
• Gitea — my own git server
• ntfy — push notifications from my server to my phone
• restic → BorgBase — nightly offsite backups

Services

• Fastmail — email at this domain

This is a /uses page — inspired by Derek Sivers. If you're curious about any of it, email me.