🖥️ Operating Systems
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👨🏾💻 IDEs & Code Editors
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- Positron - The natural evolution of RStudio, a fork of VSCode. My main editor for statistical work with R and Python.
RStudio – An IDE designed for R programming. Served me well for years, but I grew tired of how dated it looks and feels.- Zed Editor – A great open source code editor written in rust. Fast, extensible, and quite good looking. This is my playground for hobby projects.
- Vim – An easy to customize and efficient text editor.
- Htop & BPytop – Interactive system monitoring tools with great looks.
- Nvtop – A real-time GPU usage monitor.
- Bat – A
cat alternative with syntax highlighting. - Duf - A better
df utility. - Starship – A minimal, beautiful shell prompt that I can tweak to my liking.
- Hugo – A fast static site generator.
- Docker – A platform for containerising applications.
- GitLab – A DevOps platform for hosting repositories and CI/CD pipelines. I try to stay away from GitHub since Microsoft acquired it (but use it occasionally).
🤖 Desktop Applications
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- Obsidian – A knowledge management and note-taking app using Markdown.
- Firefox – Back to basics after dabbling with Zen Browser for a bit.
Zen Browser – A cool web browser based on Firefox.- Thunderbird – An open-source email client.
- Ptyxis – A terminal emulator for better workflow management.
- Buffer – A minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping.
- Apostrophe – Distraction-free markdown editor for when I need to type and share something quickly.
📱 Mobile Applications
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- Fountain – A podcasting app with value-for-value payments.
- DAVx⁵ – Sync contacts and calendars with Nextcloud, OwnCloud, and other CalDAV/CardDAV services.
- Termux – A terminal emulator with a Linux environment for Android.
- Futo Keyboard – A privacy-friendly keyboard for Android.
☁️ Online Services & Self-Hosting
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- Tailscale – A zero-config VPN for private networking.
- Homeassistant - Open source home automation tool.
- Searxng - A free and open-source federated metasearch engine.
- Jellyfin – A self-hosted media streaming solution.
- Audio Bookshelf – A self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.
- Nextcloud – A private cloud solution for file sharing and collaboration.
- ProtonMail – Encrypted email service focused on privacy.
- Bitwarden – An open-source password manager.
- Stirling-PDF – A self-hosted PDF processing server.
- Ollama – A local LLM (large language model) runner for AI applications.