Uses
Here is a list of hardware, software, and settings I use routinely. All these things allow me to get better work done, make my life easier in general ... or are just fun to tinker with.
💻 Hardware
- MacBook Pro (with a bootcamp Windows partition)
- iPhone
- Rapberry Pi 4B -- latest gen can be a very capable NAS (I have it acting as a network Time Machine, Plex server, and Pi-Hole)
- Unifi Dream Machine
- Digital Ocean Droplet -- running Ubuntu + Docker
🧩 Dev Setup
- Visual Studio Code
- XCode
- One Monokai Theme
- ESLint & Prettier -- implemented on codebases I touch, for sanity
- Docker
- SourceTree -- git visualization & diffing
- iTerm
⛅️ Self-Hosted
- Traefik -- Used to reverse-proxy the containers on this server, and auto-refreshes Let's Encrypt
- Fathom -- Self-hosted, lightweight, and privacy-respecting site analytics, running on fathom.jeremycollins.net
- Miniflux -- RSS fetching software, running on miniflux.jeremycollins.net
- Pi-Hole -- DNS control and fun stats on home network traffic
- Plex
- Jellyfin -- FOSS Plex alternative with a good community
🎒 Other software / services I use all the time
- Reeder -- RSS reader
- 1Password -- for 2FA and generated passwords, plus tracking membership numbers and software licenses
- Parallels -- it can run the Mac's bootcamped Windows partition from within macOS when I don't want to reboot
- Pixelmator -- image & photo editing
- VNC
- Pocket Casts -- the best cross-platform podcast manager
- Audible
- Spotify
- Infuse -- a video player client for Plex, iTunes, any other network protocol with an amazing UI and great filetype compatibility