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Things I Use

Ive churned through a bunch of random stuff for my workflow, here are the things i have settled on.

Devices

Boox Go 10.3

This is what I use to take ~handwritten notes, because I would run out of paper too fast if I used that. Also great for reading if you hate reading from screens and enjoy annotating in-margin.

The pen I use is the “Lamy AL-Star”. Highly recommend it.

I keep internet off on the device, and use adb and some scripts to push and pull files from the device.

Random VPS

If you have a tolerable ISP you may be able to self host, but I like to use a vps for hosting things. I pay my provider around $5 a month for a single server with what im assuming is a shared cpu.

Accessories

Yubikey

Good for using as a passkey and a GPG keycard for auth and signing. I switch devices alot so this was a great purchase.

Software (Server)

I run OpenBSD, mostly because of the nice software that comes with.

I use the OpenBSD provided smtpd, httpd, relayd, and pf for their purposes.

Other than that, I use:

Software (Client)

I use nixos and home-manager to configure my environment. You can find the config files here, which also document everything I use much better than this blog.

  • pass to manage my passwords.
  • sway for my window-manager/compositor (this doesnt really matter)
  • lazygit for some parts of my git workflow
  • firefox as my main web browser. I mostly do this because of the zotero connector.
  • I also use qutebrowser alot, and it is much better integrated with my wm. I have it configured with tabs off, and just use sway to manage individual windows. I use a script to make tabopen integrate with sway.
  • tmux as tmux. I would classify this as a bad piece of software, but I love it.
  • zathura is also pretty bad, but I still use it as my main pdf reader.
  • mpd for listening to music, and mpdscribble for scrobbling said music
  • abcde for ripping CDs, and audacity for ripping vinyls (though this tends to sound not great), my record player has a usb port.
  • aerc as my email client.
  • weechat for IRC (this does too much, not a huge fan but I like some of the plugins)
  • neovim as my text editor.
  • zotero for managing papers.