Now
What I’m doing now
(last updated December 15, 2025)
- No longer working a gig job on the side, enjoying the cooler weather, and trying to spend the extra downtime exploring the mountains.
- Working a full time job with overtime as a CNC machine operator at a cabinet shop.
- After a time of life characterized by much scrambling about, finally settling into my current place and routines. I’ll return to following my wanderlust in April when my lease is up, and I fly out of Arizona.
- Practicing minimalism in multiple areas of life (digital, physical, etc.)
What I Use
Below is a non-exhaustive list of the tools and technologies that I use regularly.
Hardware
- Laptop: HP Victus laptop running MX Linux Xfce
- Smartphone: Pixel 6 Pro running GrapheneOS
Software
Writing & Productivity
- Cloud file storage: Syncthing for my own personal cloud
- Notes: Obsidian
- Tasks: a todo list in Obsidian
- Calendar: I don’t keep an actual calendar, digital or physical, just a list of upcoming events in Obsidian
- Contacts: I don’t use any app to manage contacts
- Office suite: LibreOffice
- Personal finance: I don’t use any app to manage my finances
- Passwords: stored in Ungoogled Chromium
- IDE: VS Code
- Version control: GitHub
News & Socials
- Email: Claws, FairEmail
- Chat: HexChat for IRC, Signal
- Internet browser: Ungoogled Chromium
- Feeds: Fluent Reader, Feeder
Media
- Ebooks: Libby, Books Story
- Music: RiMusic
- Podcasts: AntennaPod
Self hosting
- Syncthing