Software & Hardware
This is a collection of my personal pet projects, software that
I use, and my hardware running everything. I strive to insert as
much open source software into my daily life as I possibly can,
because I believe the collaborative nature of open-source leads
to better and more fun software.
Personal projects/software that I have been working on.
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Gochat-CLI
— End-to-end encrypted CLI chat application written in Go.
Featuring state-of-the-art cryptography like ECDH and
ChaCha20-Poly1305.
I will list software here that I use more or less daily
depending on the task. These include the Base system, Utilities
and other programs. If of any interest, here are my
dotfiles.
Operating System/Distribution
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I use
Arch Linux
(btw) on my desktop. On my laptops I use
Void Linux. I personally love Void more, and I've been planning to
move my desktop over to Void.
Terminal
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I use
alacritty, a fast GPU accelerated OpenGL terminal emulator. No
ligature support, if you fancy that.
Shell
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I use
zsh
as a shell. A POSIX compliant, highly extensible shell. The
best part about zsh is the huge ecosystem of plugins
available. Because zsh is POSIX compliant, are also able to
freely use bash scripts found in the wild.
Window Manager/Desktop Enviroment
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I love tiling window managers, and nothing beats the
simplicity of
i3.
Wayland migration under construction.
Text editing and programming
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Vim, or to be more precise
Neovim.
You can find my
configuration
over at codeberg. I also supplement nvim with a terminal
multiplexer called
tmux, a must have for easy persistent remote-host sessions.
Media player
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You really don't need any more than
mpv. You
can even pipe youtube videos to mpv and watch it that way
(excellent video-streaming alternative on low-end hardware).
PDF reader
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Zathura
is perfect if you enjoy a minimalistic but functional
document reader with focus on keyboard interaction.
A list of hardware I use and can recommend. I also snagged some
of these on the used market to save the environment and all
that, not because I'm a cheapskate :).
[CPU] - Ryzen 7 5800X
[RAM] - 16 GB 3600MHz
[GPU] - GTX 1660 Super
[Motherboard] - Gigabyte
AB350-Gaming 3-CF
[Display] - MAG274UPF:
4K@144Hz 27"
[Keyboard] - Model F
Keyboard Ultra Compact FSSK