Software, Projects and other stuff I use

Software

Operating System

I've used Arch (btw) for proably over 10 years now and I love it, it's by far the best linux distro that I've ever used. Basically it's a build your own OS kind of distro, which means after much tinkering and configuring you can have a system that is exactly fit to your needs and wants. I really like that aspect of it.

Alternatively for work I use a macbook Pro, which is also nice but it's a fundamental shift in philosophy, where Linux especially Arch Linux let's you basically do whatever you want, with OSX you basically have to adjust to whatever Apple feels is the best User Experience. I mean they're spot on most of the time But I like to tinker, I like to play around with my system and my workflow and that's just not something that you can do with OSX. Buuuut for work it's flawless mainly because you don't need to fix any configu issues or anything like that, but just does what it's supposed to and does it really well.

Window Manager

I use Hyprland it's a tiling window manager that feels really really nice to use and is super easy to configure I've used i3 for a long time and I like it a lot, but I think Hyprland is just a bit more polished and a bit more user friendly.

The animations are pretty nice too.

Text Editor / IDE

I use vscode because I really really like Microsoft... are they gone? Ok anyhow I use Neovim again it's a bit tool that let's me configure it just the way I like it and requires a time investment and a tinkerer's mindset, kinda setting a theme here huh?

Terminal

Ghostty is my terminal of choice, it's super fast, minimal, works really well, utilizes the kitten protocol and the kitty rendering engine, which is really nice because I can display images and stuff in the terminal which is pretty. Plus you know it's written in Zig which is a language I really like.

Shell

I use ZSH it's bash but with more modern features and plugins. I dig it.

Browser

I use Brave because I like the idea of a browser that doesn't track me and I like the idea of a browser that blocks ads and trackers by default.

I know it has it's faults and the crypto stuff is pretty annoying, but it's opt in and I just ...don't opt in?

This website

Astro

This website was built with Astro a super cool static site generator that allows you to use any javascript framework you want while getting most of the niceties of something like Next.js.

I personally like it quite a lot, I originally had react in here too with astro, but took it out as I don't really need that kind of complexity for this simple site.

Tailwind

I had a very typical developer experience with Tailwind, hated it at first thought it was just inline styles all over again, used it properly in a project found it super useful and now I use it all the time

What I like most about it is that it allows you to keep your styles, your structure and your logic all within the same file.