Tools I use

(This page records things that I use for programming, reading and writing.)

Hardware 

• HHKB Hybrid at home
• LG 27UP850K at home experience
• Cherry G80-3000 at office experience
• Macbook Pro (Apple M1 Pro with 32GB memory)

Software 

I choose software with two principles:

1. Data remains accessible and usable even if the software is no longer available.
2. The software should seamlessly fit into my workflow.

With the principles, I prefer open source software to proprietary ones:

• Emacs for coding, reading and writing
• Zed for agentic coding
• Ghostty and fish shell for great terminal experience
• Zotero and zotero-better-bibtex for reference.bib
• Calibre for EPUBs

Services 

• Bitwarden for passwords ($10/year)
• Claude Code for agentic coding ($20/month)
• Dropbox for syncing files (free)
• Vercel for hosting static websites (free)

Self-hosting 

I self-hosted some services on Hetzner using kamal-services:

• Atuin for shell histories
• Linkding for web links
• Miniflux for RSS feeds
• Wallabag for web pages
• Grafana for statistics

Cost: $12.60/month