My tech stack

Here is my tech stack. I refer to this list when I setup a new computer. Most of them are free. The paid ones have a footnote. I also document other tech stacks.

Blogging #

• Hugo
  • Hugo congo theme
  • Hugo blowfish theme
  • Hugo lynx theme
• Hosting
  • Firebase
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • GitHub Pages

Books #

• Calibre
• HyRead
• Kindle
• Zotero

Browser #

• Brave
• Safari
• Tor Browser
• Extensions
  • Save to Pocket
  • SponsorBlock for YouTube
  • uBlock Origin, an ad blocker.
  • uBlock Origin Lite, an ad blocker.
  • unTrap for YouTube

Cloud storage #

• Box
• Dropbox
• iCloud
• Google Drive
• OneDrive
• ownCloud OCIS
• Mega

Communications #

• Discord
• LimeChat
• LINE
• Messenger
• Slack
• Skype
• Signal
• Telegram
• Whatsapp
• Zoom

Document creation #

• LibreOffice
• neovim
• TextMate

Email #

• Gmail
• Outlook
• Proton Mail
• Zoho Mail

File downloading and transfering #

• Cyberduck
• JDownloader
• syncthing
• Transmission
• wget
• yt-dlp

Fonts #

• Meslo nerd font. brew install font-meslo-lg-nerd-font

Forms #

• JotForm
• Tally

Gaming #

• See my gaming tech stack

Homelab #

• See my Homelab tech stack

Internet and Networking #

• Angry IP Scanner
• iperf
• Quad9, a public DNS server.

Learning and studying #

• Anki
• Coursera

Machine learning #

• See my AI tech stack

Media #

• Audio, music
  • substreamer, an iOS app
  • Spotify
  • Supersonic
• Photos
  • Apple Photos
  • Google Photos
  • immich
• Video
  • IINA
  • VLC

Media creation #

• Audio, music
  • FFmpeg
  • freac
  • MusicBrainz Picard
  • XLD
• Photos
  • Adobe Lightroom¹
  • Adobe Photoshop¹
  • darktable
  • ImageOptim
  • Inkscape
  • Nik Collection¹
• Video
  • Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve
  • FFmpeg
  • Handbrake

Note taking, writing #

• AnyType
• Freeplane
• Gramps
• Grist and Grist Desktop
• Jabref
• Joplin
  • Easy Backlinks
• Logseq
• NocoDB
• Obsidian
  • Front Matter Title
• OneNote
• Zettlr
  • LanguageTool, a spelling checker.
• Zotero
  • Better BibTex

Operating Systems #

• macOS¹
  • AppCleaner
  • Homebrew
  • Ice, a menu bar, status bar manager.
  • Karabiner-Elements, a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS.
  • OpenInEditor-Lite
  • OpenInTerminal-Lite
  • OnyX
  • Pareto Security
  • QDirStat
  • Raycast
  • Rectangle
  • ShakePin
  • Shottr
  • The Unarchiver
• Windows¹

Password manager #

• Authy
• BitWarden
• Cryptomator
• KeePassXC

Personal finance #

• beancount
  • fava, a web GUI for beancount.
• Portfolio Performance

Project management #

• Asana
• cal.com
• Clocker
• Google Calendar
• Todoist
• Toggl Track
• Trello

Software development, programming #

• gpg
• Editor
  • lazyVim
  • VS Codium
• Version control
  • git
  • GitHub
  • lazygit
• Python
  • hatch
  • Jupyter
  • pipx
  • Poetry
  • pyenv
  • pyenv-virtualenv
  • PyPy
  • pytest
  • ruff
  • uv

Terminal #

• Personal dot files.
• eza, a modern alternative to ls.
• fzf, a command-line fuzzy finder.
• Ghostty
• GNU Stow
• Oh my tmux!
• Oh My Zsh
• zoxide, a smarter cd command.
• Zsh

Virtualization #

• VMware Fusion Pro

VPN #

• macOS native VPN client
• Tailscale
• Tunnelbrick
• Wireguard