What I'm doing now

• Working in the financial industry as a software engineer. I'm also working on a few side projects, reading a lot, and trying to run more.
• Phasing out social media
• Thinking about moving
• Hoping to spend less time in front of the computer
• Planning to start a blog

What I Use

Below is a non-exhaustive list of the tools and technologies that I utilize daily.

Hardware

• Laptop: HP Victus laptop running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
• Smartphone: Galaxy S8 running Android with minimalist launcher app

Software

Writing & Productivity

• Cloud File Storage: Syncthing for my own personal cloud
• Notes: Obsidian
• Tasks: todo list in Obsidian
• Calendar: don't use any calendar
• 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: Gmail
• Chat: HexChat for IRC, Signal, and SimpleX
• Internet browser: Ungoogled Chromium
• Feeds: FreshRSS

Media

• Photos: coming soon
• Ebooks: Kindle Paperwhite
• Music: YouTube Music
• Podcasts: AntennaPod, Fountain, and the RePod Nextcloud app

Self hosting

• UmbrelOS
• Nginx Proxy Manager
• FreshRSS
• Syncthing
• Nextcloud