What I Use

I use a Dell in their newish Pro line running Ubuntu 24.04. Even when I worked in the office most of the time—​and now working from home almost all of the time—​I’ve never really felt comfortable using a separate keyboard or monitor, so I just use the built in keyboard (pretty decent) and display, which is okay and good getting squareish aspect ratio.

I have a Pixel 9 Pro for my phone that I also read books on—​again because the display is quite nice. It’s probably the nicest form factor of a phone I’ve used.

I have a variety of Switches for video gaming for myself and my family. (We also have a Wii, Xbox 360, GameCube, Super Nintendo, Nintendo, 3DS Lite, GBA SP2, New 3DS XL, Playdate, and a few other things.)

Inside of Ubuntu, I use XFCE4 as my window manager. It seems like a good balance, for me, of tiling window managers and something more heavy weight like Gnome or KDE. Its workspace management is particularly nice.

My default terminal is Ghostty, although I’ve used alacritty and the built in XFCE4 terminal as well. I use Neovim for my primary coding interface. My (Neo)Vim dotfiles are in my GitHub profile.

I’ve been experimenting with using Logseq for note taking/outlining since most other attempts I’ve tried have failed. I sync between my phone and computer (with a backup going to a remote location—​encrypted) using Syncthing. There are many set up guides if you search, so for now I won’t be adding more. But it has beeen working for me.

Git for version control, with Tig as my primary exploration interface. But I also use vim-fugitive for that purpose.

This site is generated using Pelican. I have a custom theme I will open source that is based on the base Pelican theme and the Sakura minimal CSS framework. I plan to open source the theme once I clean it up and make it potentially reusable. I wrote a post about being able to deploy a Pelican site to a staging site.