Uses
What I actually use day-to-day. Inspired by uses.tech.
Operating System
- Fedora — Currently on 43. Stable, up to date, stays out of the way.
- GNOME — With Blur My Shell, Dash to Dock, Tiling Assistant, Coverflow Alt-Tab, Caffeine, Compiz effects, GSConnect.
Terminal & Development
- Kitty + Zsh — Oh My Zsh, Powerlevel10k prompt, tmux for session persistence.
- CLI replacements — bat, eza, btop, ripgrep, fzf, zoxide, glow, wormhole, mosh.
- VS Code — Primary editor.
- Claude Code + OpenClaw — AI coding assistant and agent orchestration platform.
- Git + GitHub — Version control and project hosting.
- Chezmoi + Ansible — Dotfile management and infrastructure provisioning. Reproducible from scratch.
- Docker + Podman — Containerization for everything self-hosted.
- Netlify — Static site hosting and continuous deployment.
Networking & Security
- Tailscale — Mesh VPN connecting all servers. The backbone of the homelab.
- AdGuard Home — DNS-level ad and tracker blocking for the whole network.
- Caddy — Reverse proxy for all .local domains.
- Netdata + Uptime Kuma — Monitoring and status across all nodes.
- Nmap + Wireshark — Network scanning and packet analysis.
- Momentum Firmware — Custom firmware for the Flipper Zero. RF, NFC, IR, sub-GHz.
- Meshtastic — LoRa mesh networking.
- Bitwarden — Password management.
Media & Automation
- Plex + Plexamp + Tautulli — Media server, dedicated music player, and usage stats.
- Sonarr + Prowlarr — Automated TV show tracking and indexer management.
- qBittorrent + Transmission — Torrent clients.
- n8n — Workflow automation platform.
- Homepage — Self-hosted dashboard for all services.
Productivity & Data
- Obsidian — Notes, tasks, career docs, project planning. The second brain.
- Syncthing — File sync across devices. No cloud.
- Borg — Encrypted, deduplicated backups.
- Firefox + uBlock Origin — Primary browser. No tracking.
- SearXNG — Self-hosted metasearch engine. Private by default.
- Signal + Matrix — Encrypted messaging.
- Ollama + OpenWebUI — Local LLMs on an RTX 3070. Private, no API calls.