Uses
🤔 What’s This ?
This page contains a list of whatever Hardware I own and use and whatever bits of Software I use both on Desktop and for my Websites.
Inspired by Wes Bos’ uses.tech site, which contains links to other developer’s /uses pages.
This page is a living document, and I’ll change stuff here if I get some new Hardware or switch up my software workflow or web setup
💾 Software
Windows 10
Settled on Win10 after using Linux Mint for quite a while and before that shuttling between different Linux distros.
Ubuntu 18.04( WSL 2)
This is why I settled on Windows 10 😀
Windows Terminal
Use the terminal integrated in VSCode most of the time, but having a modern Terminal on Windows is good
VScode
Best Text Editor in the history of Text Editors
Postman
GUI API testing program, thankfully much easy to install in Windows
Chrome
Default Browser for both normal browsing and Dev, Chrome DevTools 😍
Adobe XD
Learning to make Website Mockups and Illustrations using this, only free Adobe CC program there is.
Libre Office
Good FOSS Alternative to MS Office suite!
Mozilla Thunderbird
GUI Mail client with UI that looks like it’s from 2009, but just werks and is very functional
OBS Studio
Screen recording software, can also be used for live streaming.
Daum PotPlayer
Feature rich video player that can play every format.
👨💻 Hardware
🖥️ Custom Desktop PC
i5 4690K | Corsair 8GB DDR3 RAM | Gigabyte GTX 1660 Super GPU | Samsung Evo 256GB SSD | Seasonic M12II 620W PSU | Samsung 24 inch IPS/PLS Monitor | Logitech Z310 Speakers
My Workhorse, since 2015, My first and only custom built PC, also the one using which I started my Programming journey, Custom PC’s built from standardized parts are truly the best computing platform, outlasting propreitary Laptops, AIOs etc and giving the user immense freedom in Hardware and Software choices.
💻 Asus VivoBook S
Laptop with good specs but a dying screen and borked internal keyboard that isn’t replaceable 😟
📱 Apple iPhone 7
Most beautiful UI i’ve ever seen on any electronic device, and couldn’t care much about all the “walled garden” stuff, I’m more of a PC guy anyway
📡 TP-Link Archer C6 1750
5Ghz MU-MIMO Wifi router with beefy enough specs to run Linux and custom firmware distros like DDWRT or Tomato
🌐 Web
AWS Lightsail
Host my sites on this, can’t beat $3.50 for a VPS.
NGINX
Preferred Web Server for my sites.
Jekyll
Static Site Generator, using this for 2-3 years now, should probably switch to Gatsby
Docker
CONTAINERIZE ALL THE THINGS!!!!!
LetsEncrypt
Provides Free SSL Certificates, but you have to renew them every 3 months.
CloudFlare
They have a free plan to provide your site CDN, proxying and possible DDoS protection too.
Postfix
Sits on your server and receives E-Mail, passes it on to Dovecot
Dovecot
Connects to mail clients like Thunderbird and sends your E-mails over
Rspamd
Keeps Nigerian Princes and Advertizers out of your Inbox