/uses

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of everything we use in our day-to-day lives.

The /uses page was inspired from Natalie’s /uses page, Ovyerus’ /uses page, and from Wes Bos’ /uses page.

Hardware#

aegis (ASUS TUF A15 2021)#

Our main workstation used for development and gaming.

• Operating system:
  • Windows 11 24H2
  • NixOS 25.05 (Unstable)
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (6) @ 3.00 GHz
• RAM: 32GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200 MT/s
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 (4GB VRAM)
• Storage:
  • Internal Samsung M.2 NVMe 512GB SSD
  • Samsung 980 PRO SSD 2TB NVMe Gen 4
• Display: 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz IPS

atlas (ThinkPad T480s)#

Occasionally used for development or testing purposes.

• Operating system: NixOS 25.05 (Unstable)
• CPU: Intel Core i7-8650U (8) @ 4.20 GHz
• RAM: 16GB DDR4 RAM @ 2400 MT/s
• GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 @ 1.15 GHz
• Storage: Patriot P300 M.2 NVMe 512GB SSD
• Display: 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz IPS

lumen (PlayStation Vita 2000)#

Used to play games on the go.

• Operating system: HENkaku 3.65
• CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 CPU (2) @ 500MHz
• RAM: 512MB LPDDR2 RAM
• GPU: Quad-core SGX543MP4+ (128MB VRAM)
• Storage: 64GB microSD w/ the SD2Vita Pro adapter
• Display: 960x544 @ 60 Hz LCD

nexus (Hetzner CAX21)#

Ampere box used for all of our services.

• Operating system: Debian 13 (Trixie)
• CPU: Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) (4 vCPU)
• RAM: 8GB
• Storage: 80 GB NVME SSD

pulsar (Raspberry Pi 4B)#

Occasionally used to deploy services.

• Operating system: NixOS 25.05 (Unstable)
• CPU: Broadcom BCM2711 (4) @ 1.50 GHz
• RAM: 4GB LPDDR4 SDRAM
• Storage: 32GB microSD

zenith (OnePlus 9 5G)#

Our daily driver phone.

• Operating system: Android 15 (crDroid 11.5)
• CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
• RAM: 8GB LPDDR5
• GPU: Adreno 660
• Storage: 128GB UFS 3.1
• Display: 2400 x 1080 @ 120 Hz AMOLED

Peripherals#

• 8BitDo Ultimate C: Our primary controller
• Logitech G502 X Plus: Our primary mouse
• Sony WH-1000XM4: Our primary headphones
• Galaxy Buds 2 Pro: Earbuds we occasionally use
• HyperX Cloud Stinger: Backup headphones in case things break
• Sony CyberShot DSC-W120: Our camera

Software#

Apps#

• 1Password: Password management
• 2FAS: Open source 2FA authenticator
• 7-Zip: Free and open source file archiver
• F-Droid: Open source app repository for Android
• Microsoft Edge: Our primary web browser
• Obsidian: Flexible note-taking application
• qBitTorrent: Free, open source and cross-platform BitTorrent client
• Solid Explorer: A powerful Android file manager
• Tasks.org: Open source Android app for to-do lists

Chat#

• Discord: For regular, day-to-day communication
• Moshidon: A beautiful, open source Android client for Mastodon
• PluralKit: A Discord bot meant for plural communities
• Signal: Open source, encrypted messaging app
• Thunderbird: Free, open source email client

Development#

• DataGrip: Cross-platform IDE for databases
• Figma: Interface design tool
• PyCharm: The complete IDE for Python
• Visual Studio Code: Open source code editor with a rich ecosystem of extensions
• WebStorm: An essential IDE for TypeScript
• Windows Terminal: Modern, feature-rich terminal application for Windows
• Zed: Open source text and source-code editor

Extensions#

• 1Password: Browser autofill & integration with the desktop app
• Catppuccin Web File Explorer Icons: Soothing pastel icons for Git services like GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, and more
• Consent-O-Matic: Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
• Country Flag Fixer: Replaces country codes with the corresponding flag on Windows
• Indie Wiki Buddy: An extension to filter out Fandom wikis and redirect to indie alternatives
• Linkwarden: Integration with our Linkwarden instance to sync links
• Refined GitHub: Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
• Return YouTube Dislike: An extension that returns dislike statistics to YouTube videos
• SteamDB: Significantly improves your Steam experience with historical prices, player stats, and more
• Stylus: Easily install themes for your favorite sites
• uBlock Origin: An efficient ad content blocker
• Web Scrobbler: Scrobble music from all around the web

Games#

• Prism Launcher: Open source Minecraft launcher
• Steam: The ultimate destination for playing games

Media#

• Apple Music: For listening to music
• Miru: Torrent streaming made simple
• MPC-HC: Lightweight and open source media player for Windows

Tools#

• bat: A cat clone with wings
• btop: A monitor of resources
• cloudflared: Cloudflare Tunnel client
• eza: A modern alternative to ls
• gh: GitHub’s official command line tool
• pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for Node
• Scoop: A better, frictionless way to install programs on Windows
• uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust
• zoxide: A smarter cd command

Utilities#

• AMWin-RP: Scrobbling & Discord Rich Presence utility for Apple Music on Windows
• EarTrumpet: A better volume control for Windows
• Everything: Rapidly find files and folders by name
• G-Helper: Lightweight Armoury Crate alternative for ASUS laptops
• ModernFlyouts: Open source, modern, and Fluent Design-based flyouts for Windows 11
• ntfy app: Integration with our self-hosted ntfy instance to sync notifications
• ownCloud app: Integration with our self-hosted ownCloud Infinite Scale instance to sync files
• Pano Scrobbler: Open source music scrobbler for Android
• PowerToys: Tweaks and utilies for Windows
• rich-destiny: A Discord Rich Presence tool for the videogame Destiny 2
• ShareX: The best and free open source screenshot tool for Windows
• StartAllBack: Provides a better start menu and taskbar, as well as fixing UI discrepancies on Windows
• Tailscale: The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA

Websites#

• D2Foundry: Explore Destiny 2 weapon rolls and stats
• deer.social: A fork of Bluesky with a focus on customization
• HammerTime: Generate timestamp indicators for Discord chat messages
• Lobste.rs: Computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion
• Monkeytype: A minimalistic, customizable typing test
• PDSls: Browse the public data on the AT Protocol

Services#

A collection of open source services we host.

• Anubis: Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
• authentik: Open source identity provider and SSO server
• Bluesky PDS: Self-hosted Bluesky Personal Data Server
• Caddy: Extensible, cross-platform, open source web server written in Go
• docker-minecraft-server: Docker image for spinning up a Minecraft Java Edition server
• Forgejo: Self-hosted lightweight version control software
• Glance: Self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place
• Lanyard: Expose your Discord presence and activities to a RESTful API
• Linkwarden: Open source collaborative bookmark manager for links
• ntfy: Send push notifications to your devices via PUT/POST
• Outline: An open source, self-hosted, beautiful wiki and knowledge base
• ownCloud Infinite Scale: The modern file-sync and share platform and a Go rewrite of the original ownCloud
• tclip: A pastebin for Tailscale users
• Umami: Modern, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

Miscellanea#

Colors#

This website uses the Catppuccin color scheme with the following configurations:

• Light mode: Latte palette and mauve accent
• Dark mode: Mocha palette and pink accent

To apply the color scheme, we use the @catppuccin/tailwindcss library.

Fonts#

This website uses the following fonts:

• Atkinson Hyperlegible as the primary font. It’s very accessible and easy on the eyes.
• Iosevka as a monospace font, for contents surrounded in backticks and codeblocks.
• Inter as a fallback font, in case the primary font is not supported, i.e. the Cyrillic alphabet.

To apply the fonts, we use libraries from Fontsource.

Icons#

This website uses icons from the following sources:

• Material Design Icons for general elements
• Simple Icons for brands and programming languages
• SVG Spinners for loading elements

To apply the icons, we use the astro-icon and @iconify/react libraries.