Uses

I've always appreciated learning and being inspired by what other's use in their day to day, so figured I'd share mine as well :)

Also make sure to check out uses.tech for the uses pages of others!

Editor + Terminal

• Visual Studio Code is my text editor of choice. I've been trying Panic's Nova off and on since it came out, but I can't do without my peculiar VS Code settings and extensions.
• I'm currently using Triplicate A Poly as my coding font of choice. Yes I did pay the $119 price of admission, and yes. it's serif 👀 I use the Poly (non-monospace) variant in the code editor, and the Code variant for terminal.
• Tabs > spaces. I prefer my tab width set to 3.
• My editor is (always) in light mode using the GitHub Light theme. Black text on a white screen is so much easier on my eyes, and prevents halation.
• To add a bit of friendliness and whimsy into the editor, I've changed the icon set to Catppuccin Icons
• For the terminal emulator, I'm (still) relying on iTerm2. Warp has been interesting, but I find myself preferring the simplicity of iTerm2. I really don't do much more in terminal than running pnpm dev and using git.

Desktop Apps

• Arc has become my daily driver browser. Every 3 weeks or so, I try switching back to Safari — generally way less resource heavy and surprisingly fast — but can't continue due to it not being Chromium.
• I use Figma for designing things, Notion for note taking, and Linear for project management.

Recording

• For video recording, I use a Sony Alpha 6400 with a Sigma 16 mm lens.
• For audio, I use a Blue Yeti X for calls / voice recordings, and a Universal Audio Apollo Solo for guitar and other instruments.

Desk Setup

• I'm alternating between sitting and standing using an Autonomous standing desk
• My desk monitor setup is a pair of Apple Studio Displays side by side, with my laptop in clamshell mode mounted under my desk.
• The Keychron K15 Pro Alice became my standard keyboard. It used to be an Apple Magic Keyboard for years and years before that.
• When I'm trying to focus — and I'm not in meetings — I use the Sony WH-1000XM5 to blast some music
• I'm using a M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM. That being said, I am planning on upgrading to an M4 Pro with 24GB of RAM in the near future.

If you have any questions or comments, please shoot me a note on Bluesky!