Physical

• 2019 13” Macbook Pro: Bought in 2019, and still running well. I’ll need to update eventually but for now workloads when I’m not at my desk are light enough that I haven’t had the need as of yet.
• 2024 M4 Mac Mini: It’s now been a year and 4 months, and I have continued to be very satisfied with this purchase. It seems to handle anything I realistically need to throw at it with ease and the risk of lower memory at base spec has been overrated in my case.
• iPhone 17 Pro: My old iPhone 12 died around 8 months ago or so and I was happy to have the oppertunity to upgrade, modern phones are amazing, my first phone was a Nokia 5110 and I often think about how utterly insane it is that we’ve lept forward to where we are today in such a relitively short span of time. I do feel that there are a host of features I’m not making the most of but then again the less time I spend on my phone the better.
• Apple AirPods Pro 2: My gen 1 airpods lost themselves and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel good to modernise but I sometimes wonder if the old set wouldn’t have lasted a few more years still, getting probably a little too excited about health tech the new hearing test feature is fantastic and the sound/build quality is as great as you’d expect.
• Olympus OM-10 35mm: Purchased over lockdown, fantastic 35mm camera for taking on trips and capturing important moments. My only issue is the rising cost of film and development.

Abstract

• Golang: I started working as a junior developer just over 7 years ago, and I’ve primarily written go code at Anzen since then.
• TailwindCSS: Picking up tailwind felt very natural, previously I used styled components but having pre built classes for simplified access to tools like flexbox and with how easy it makes developing responsive components I’m willing to put up with the added verbosity of long inline class declarations.
• VScode: The best IDE i’ve ever used, I started out on GoLand, have dabbled in setting up a vim dev environment (with mixed success), but prefer VS Code overall.
• iTerm2 & OhMyZsh: Much like I still don’t fully understand the benefits of zsh over bash or fish, iTerm vs terminal is for my purposes about themeing and usability, I have a good set-up which I default to whenever I have to setup a new developer environment and I’m yet to find a good reason to change it up.
• Notion: Before I built this site I used notion in place of a digital garden, moving forward I intend to migrate information and projects collected there but it will involve a not insignificant amount of time to edit and format everything.
• Discord: I absolutely dispise my reliance on what is essentially malware, but for certain contacts and communities it’s irreplacable for the moment.

Services

I try to keep my reocurring payments to a minimum, I dislike that we’ve collevtively allowed buisnesses across all sectors to have regular contractual access to our bank accounts. I even more dislike that this often comes in the form of minimum terms and an utterly one sided power dynamic, but some things are unavoidable and until I can find a better self-hosted solution (that I have the time and energy, and willingness, to maintain) some things have to stay.

• Spotify: Not sure there is anyone left who isn’t using spotify, it’s good for what it is. I do miss winamp and manually running a local music library, but who has the time for that these days. Initially spotify was fantastic for discovery but more recently I find myself stuck in loops of specific artists and songs.
• 1Password: Having used it for years now, and at relatively low cost I have no complaints. With some of the recent updates to apples passwords app I’m considering switching over to that, but I am hesitant to have literally everything I use within the apple ecosystem.
• Hevy: For the longest time I’ve tracked my workouts by pen and paper, and found great satisfaction in doing so, I couldn’t really tell you why specifically I switched to using an app but I did and it does have some excellent features for tracking efforts and managing workout structure.