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the software and tools i actually reach for

A "now page" for software, more or less. Updated whenever something on this list stops being true, which is more often than I'd like to admit.

daily driver

  • Artix Linux, because at some point choosing an init system became a personality trait and there's no going back. I'm stuck with dinit forever
  • Niri is the side chick I can't live without
  • Foot as the terminal, zen as the browser, and not much else — most days
  • Neovim + nvchad for anything text, which is most things
  • Keepassxc, mpd + rmpc, lf, himalaya, zathura, stew, uv, tmux, aria2, and of course mpv

for building things

  • Go, for anything that needs to actually work
  • Cobra for CLIs, because reinventing flag parsing has never once been the fun part
  • Caddy in front of everything, because I would like my TLS certificates to be someone else's problem
  • Charm, ironically I hook up everything with those
  • Python, rarely these few years
  • Bun, it's the least shitty one
  • Svelte, attempting to avoid js with more js yeah

the best tool is the one where the interesting bugs are in my code, not the framework's.

everything else

  • a plain text editor and a folder of `.txt` files for this very blog — no CMS, no database, just files and a build step
  • self-hosted where it's reasonable to self-host, hosted-by-someone-else where it very much is not
  • makes a hella lot of software clones by stripping them down like whores

This list will be wrong again soon. That's fine — it's a page about the present, not a promise about the future.

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