Uses
I don't know who started it but this is similar to /now.
Hardware
- Desktop. Win 11 custom built with older parts (newest thing is 2021 GPU). Still holds up well.
- Laptop. Alienware x15 R2. Got it from my University scholarship. An alright laptop - holds up with EXTREMLY heavy usage (On average, I use it from 3-10 hours a day). Very solid and consistent - just some quality issues with the battery cables (The end of the battery is sharp, so the cable gets frayed and needs replacement).
- Mouse. My favorite is the Logitech MX Vertical mouse. Lasted 2 years of heavy daily usage (clicks no longer work, I need to press hard). Now I use a bootleg SEENDA vertical mouse.
Editor & terminal
- IDE. At work I'm forced to use VSCode. Out of work I use Zed.
- Text Editor Helix. It just works. Keybindings are great and its super fast/simple.
- Terminal. Ghostty, Fish, Jetbrains Nano Font, Bandit theme (although I use a custom one sometimes, it's hard to find maroon/desaturated red themes).
- Font. Jetbrains nano font, but I really like the monaspace font family (Neon for code, krypton for editor text).
- Color scheme. My favorite is the Noctis family of themes, specifically Noctis Azureous and Hibernus.
Software
- OS. CachyOS (Arch Linux).
- Browser. Brave but I really should be using Palemoon instead. Servo when it gets off the ground.
- Window manager. Hyprland.
- Notes. TriliumNext for my book notes. It's... Alright. I want something else tho.
- Game Engine Godot (preferred) and Unity3d. UE is too heavy IMO, hard to hit the ground running.
- Game frameworks/libraries None. I'm wanting to increase my skills in this context soon.
AI tooling
- Main model: Deepseek v4 Pro. Super cheap, easy to throw stuff at it, and it's consistent. I use GLM 5.2 as well, but I feel like stronger models like that are for vibe coding prototypes - not being productive.
- Harness OhMyPi. Good defaults, easy to extend - it just works. Only downside is that I have to write all my prompts in helix THEN paste it into omp. I love longer prompts, with high detail. Every current coding agent/harness/tool has really bad text formatting. I also use opencode.
- Sandboxing None :((((
- Flash model Deepseek v4 Flash. Extremely competent - and impossibly cheap.
- Fine tune focused model.
- Note: Your mileage may vary from mine - I like using AI as an assistant, not for vibe coding.
Programming languages
- PYTHON IS STILL THE TOP, BABY!! I dropped python for about a year to focus on other languages (namely Go). I came crawling back.
- Go is still great.
Fridged (for now):
- Odin is interesting... It's got a lot of cool ideas. I got the Odin book, and I'm really liking it. If I made more games, I'd use it more.
- Rust. I want to get competent - but I feel like every project I make can be better done in another language. I'm also not skilled enough.
For this site
- My custom static site generator (Might open source soon).
- Content format. AsciiDoc, rendered with Asciidoctor.
- Templating engine. Jinja2.
- Language. Python 3.14.