Tech stack

Here is my tech stack. I refer to this list when I set up 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
  • htmltest
• 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.

Keyboard #

• Keychron K11 Max
  • Keychron key mapper

Learning and studying #

• Anki
• Coursera

Machine learning #

• See my AI tech stack

Media #

• Audio, music
  • amperfy, macOS and iOS app.
  • 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
  • Obsidian Dataview
  • Obsidian Copilot
  • Obsidian Front Matter Title
  • Obsidian Kanban
  • Obsidian LanguageTool Plugin and works with Erik van Leeuwen’s docker image of self-hosted LanguageTool server.
  • Obsidian Zotero Integration plugin
• OneNote
• Zettlr
  • Erik van Leeuwen’s docker image of self-hosted LanguageTool server.
• Zotero
  • Better BibTex

Operating Systems #

• macOS¹
  • AppCleaner
  • Azul Java.
  • Homebrew
  • Ice, a menu bar, status bar manager.
  • Karabiner-Elements, a powerful and stable keyboard customizer for macOS.
  • OpenInEditor-Lite
  • OpenInTerminal-Lite
  • OnyX, OS level maintenance.
  • Pareto Security
  • QDirStat, graphical folder size chart.
  • Raycast
    • Add KeePassXC and BitWarden to the disable list in the settings of the Clipboard History plugin. Set “Keep History For” to “24 Hours”.
      • See Raycast -> Settings -> Extensions -> Clipboard History.
  • Rectangle, a window tiling manager.
  • ShakePin
  • Shottr, a screen capture tool.
  • 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
    • LTeX+ for VS Code, a plugin that uses LanguageTool for spelling and grammar check.
• Version control
  • git
  • GitHub
  • lazygit
• Python
  • hatch
  • Jupyter
  • pipx
  • Poetry
  • PyPy
  • pytest
  • ruff
  • uv

Terminal #

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

Virtualization #

• Docker
• VMware Fusion Pro

VPN #

• macOS native VPN client
• Tailscale
• Tunnelbrick
• Wireguard