Uses

Note: There’s would many “lightweight” and “it’s just works” words on this page, and some weird grammars, don’t be mad, it’s writing style.

Systems

PC spec, OS, server, all mixed on this.

AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP

For it’s price and the non-underwhelming performant, honestly it’s feels really genuine. I can easily opening any apps, an little light gaming, and building apps and coding just works. The drivers and compatibility is also top notch, I have no issues with it, as in every time I Linux distro-hopping, and the driver in Windows is easily search-able and your PC suddenly works perfectly just like every good driver. What’s an hassle for my performance is the 8 GB RAM that some heavier games not working consistently, the inside gaming experience is good, but it’s really intriguing when it’s suddenly closed. But for the GPU itself, it’s well documented, discussed and highly stable. I even had it 2 in my home, and totally no complaint.

PikaOS & Ansible

Overlooked Linux distro of all time, you get the stability of Debian and performance of CachyOS, and it’s really what it is. Basically an combination that people really wants, and surprisingly I get overwhelmed by it. The setup is incredibly easy, and just with few clicks we get automatically detected drivers and a ton of gaming tools like Steam and Wine even though I’m not playing so much. But why not too? When there’s a new game your friend recommend, you can just play it, just the way it be in Windows. And then with customized drivers and kernels, you can easily editing videos, building apps and doing extensive stuffs without headache and additional commands.

And the thing that makes me even more comfortable, ansible which is why I used everyday for symlinking, automated scripts, and installing software. All the things being in one configuration that can be easily reproducible just like NixOS config, that I turned into dotfiles. You know what, PikaOS + Ansible may looks like an niche combination, but it’s really works well to me. It’s like you get the best worlds of Debian, CachyOS, and NixOS.

OpenMediaVault + Docker

Also kind of overlooked OS but incredibly capable, for server that I use in my old laptop. It’s have an easy-to-use web GUI, and a lot of built-in useful stuffs, and the customizations are pretty good. And also it’s just like vanilla Debian OS, which is lightweight and highly stable while you need to do everything in terminal or installing more softwares, unlike OpenMediaVault. Even the setup itself really lookalike and even feels faster.

For docker stuffs, you many need a little more commands like omv-extras. After you done, you can simply add in the web GUI, a lot of Docker apps/services that you can search in the internet, like for handle storage thingy with Nextcloud just to name one. Basically just search it yourself, or even make your own maybe?

Development tools

Tools for productivity, or for extending workflow, whatever.

pnpm

Bloated systems are something, but lightweight systems is the one up to my philosophy. I’m a long time npm user, but since the first time I use it, I really enjoyed the experience and don’t want to going back, every package installation is incredibly fast, and the command output with result also feels tidy. Installing wrangler with this is an pleasant experience.

Forgejo

GitHub are now very heavy, bloated of AI nonsense, and so social-ish, the more I grew up into coding, the more I hate it, it doesn’t feels appreciated the philosophy of open source at all. Then it’s where other git services flashing, for me Codeberg is good Forgejo instance, but already so much people inside. I tried Sourcehut, and actually I had no issue with it, it’s feels like big freedom canvas, no stats and numbers, just codes and hack-ish vibes, but the UI itself nothing much to say, I may be lookalike hacker for others, while for me it’s just bare. It’s up to my philosophy of course. But then, I finding again some Forgejo instances, and pub.solar is an cool space. It’s have stuffs like dotfiles, flakes, websites and other indie projects that actually sounds like project that I would build, plus there’s more perks they’re have. On projector, it’s not feels like the perfect or flashy services out of anything on internet. But it’s just feels right to me, I keep with this one.

wrangler

My favorite web technology is the most bare thing ever, which is HTML + CSS + JS without frameworks, so using an deployment service that optimized for frameworks might be overkill. All I need is easy and dependable service hosting, and Cloudflare genuinely one of the greatest thing ever happened to internet, my domain also using their DNS service. Wrangler is an flexible tool, and the one I use is pages command, I can make all my vanilla projects with live reload changes in browser, and it’s honestly reliable. And then I can publish using specified deploy command afterwards, all that just by adding one package.

Tauri

Like advertised, it’s an lightweight app builder with web technology. But when you’re really get into it, the more flexibility on it. At the first time, I get overwhelmed by all the setup stuffs like Rust, toolchain, Visual Studio Tools and everything. I really get that feeling, but in the same time the docs are greatly covering everything from zero, and if you just can understand the guide and the commands on it, you’re highly ready to go. For desktop app, it’s feels stable already and expected, you get less than 10MB app and hassle-free installation package generated, it’s really lightweight and fast.

And if you want mobile app development, then you need to met the final boss Android Studio, keystore signing, and ~20 minutes building. And also don’t expect it’s just works like the desktop app, you may need to setup live development environment like emulator or your phone with USB and troubleshoot and fix the problems afterwards. And when it’s all works, then it’s you ready to publish an multi platform app, and you will incredibly satisfied like I do. And I genuinely feeling wants to make more apps with this again.

Visual Studio Code

Incredible code editor ever, and nothing really changes it to me for now, the ecosystem and experience already in highest level possible, but the strongest argument I could say that, it’s just incredibly work. The only code editor that makes me feels really comfortable.

Plugins I use: - Code Spell Checker - Checking words spelling, using it while coding is something, but it’s makes writing markdown text on here feels complete. - Gruvbox Theme - Warm color theme, and not hurting eyes to look for hours. - Prettier - Make your code automatically looks good. Ctrl-Shift-I and BOOM.

nvim

I love to use it, but for coding stuffs just feels like it’s just works, maybe I need to install or setup more tools to make it feel like home, but then ended up learning a ton of useful stuffs of vim that actually can made easy rather actually coding an real stuff. I love it for little editing configs in terminal, but I can’t really use it for hours.

pblog

Pandoc static blog generator that used on this website, built by infamous Bradley Taunt.

modern-normalize

My favorite CSS framework! That also used on this website.

GUI tools

Q: What is it?
A: GUI tools is an tools that have an Graphical User Interface which is shorten as “GUI”.

Firefox

It’s just an browser that works after all. The syncs are pretty good, and I’m too small to actually analyze what behind it tbh.

FastCopy

Like the name, it’s copying and backing up things in the fast way. The UI is easy to use, and the customizations are very flexible yet I rarely touched them as it’s already made just works.

Tuta

Simple inflexible privacy mail service, it’s just works and nothing else. I have use it for years and no problems, the web GUI which is the only way to use it, is already enough.

Bitwarden

To store passwords and passkeys, also multi platform and all the apps feels mature and stable. I kind of wanting to change for something local in future because my everything is basically stored in someone somewhere, but for now it’s just handy app.

Syncthing

For backup everything like from my phone to computer disk, it’s multi platform, flexible and comfortable to use. All my photos, selfies, videos, authenticator, and basically any files are now available in both devices, that makes it easy to reset the phone some day, or just for future proof. Maybe the hassle is when I distro-hopping, I don’t really know the easy way to migrate the config so everything just back the way it is. But, manually importing the folders back is not an hard task at all.

qBittorrent

To download. Everything. *Most of time, I use it for downloading entertaining stuffs.
Fun fact: I’m the most sane torrent fan.

Nicotine+ & Picard

One for download music, one for tidying the library/directories and give metadata to the musics.

Elisa

To listen music, the UI and library just looks nice and fitting with KDE interface. The syncing is also really fast.

Creative tools

I need to basically learn more on these tools, imagine have an good creativity that the result even more creative.

Kinemaster / Pixellab

When I only can get creative on mobile phone.

FL Studio

I need to learn more on this, but it’s not working in Linux, really down point. The UI is amazing and highly flexible, but I remember the first time I use it I just feels like it could be easier, but after watching tutorials and tinkering, I think nope. It’s perfect and it’s totally how music editor looks like, and Bandlab is totally an propaganda.

Kdenlive

I need to learn more on this, I feel like I want to be YouTuber, but maybe in someday. For the app itself, I think it’s really flexible and nice.

Misc

Something that I don’t know where to put in.

Fontsource

“Font” library that open “source”. Available as CDN, or to install with package manager, highly dependable.

Instrument Sans

It’s an cool variable grotesque font (that this website uses), and it’s have “Instrument” on it, a thing that I really love deeply.

Catppuccin Mocha Teal

Chill color pallette, used on this website.

Gruvbox

Warming color pallette, used on my system and Visual Studio Code theming.