/uses
Inspired by Wes Bos's Uses.tech
Hardware
Desktop
- Workstation:
- Ryzen 9 3900X, GTX 1080 8GB, 24GB DDR4 @ 3000 MT/s
- Home server:
- Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB DDR4 @ 3000 MT/s
- Monitors:
- LG 32-in UHD (4K) — Center
- Acer 27-in FHD (1080P) — Right
- Peripherals:
- Wireless: Logitech MX Keys — I mostly enjoy the silent typing and fast device switching.
- Mechanical: Drop CTRL, Space Grey, Halo Clear — aesthetic, ergonomic, and try-hard.
- XY-pointing HID: Logitech G305, White — best mouse ever, I have 3 more for backups.
- Controller: Xbox Wireless
- Graphic: Wacom Intuos Pen S
- Audio:
- Player/Service: foobar2k, Apple Music
- DAC-AMP: FiiO Mk2
- Headphones: Sennheiser HD6XX, AKG K7XX
- Speaker: Bose Sound Bar
Laptops/Mobile
- Primary: MacBook Pro 16-in (2021)
- Specs: M1 Pro (10 CPU, 16 GPU), 16GB memory, 512GB SSD
- Dual boot with Asahi Linux
- Work: Dell Latitude 5521
- Specs: i7-11850H, Intel UHD, 32GB DDR4
- Windows
- Tablet: iPad Pro 11-in
Specs: M1, Wi-Fi only, 128GB - Secondaries: Dell Precision 5530 (x2)
- Specs: i7-8850H, P1000 4GB, 32GB DDR4
- 1 for Windows, 1 for Linux
- Test: ThinkPad P50
Specs: i7-6700HQ, M2000M, 16GB DDR4 - Phone:
- iPhone 13, Blue, 128GB
- Pixel 4a 5G, Black
- Watch: Apple Watch Series 1, Pink
- Game: Nintendo Switch v2
- Peripherals:
- XY-pointing HID: MX Master
- Apple Pencil 2
- Dongle: Dell USB-C DA310
- Audio:
- Mandatory: AirPods 2
- Cans: Sony WH-1000XM4
Camera
- Nikon D700
- Nikon D7000
- Sony RX100 II
- Lenses: 50mm f/1.8, 70-200mm f/4, aaaand etc. that I forgot
Software
Development
- Editor: VSCode (dracula theme) and vim + tmux
- IDE: Visual Studio, (dreaded) Xcode, CLion
- Notebook: VSCode, Jupyter, Colab
- VM: Vagrant + Qemu (Linux), Hyper-V (Windows)
- Terminal: iTerm2 (Mac), Alacritty (Linux), Windows Terminal (duh)
- Shell: zsh with oh-my-zsh (jonathan theme), bash, csh, sh, ps
- API: Insomnia, Postman
- Browser: Chrome > Firefox > Safari
- SCM: GitHub, GCP Source Repository, private GitLab VPS
- Prototype and Planning:
- Docs:
- Obsidian.md
- Sphinx Doc
- Confluence
- Trello
Productivity
- Font (mono): Fira Code — I slather this beautiful typeface everywhere.
- Font (sans): Be Vietnam Pro — free, patriotic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, and gorgeous.
- Graphics: Photoshop, Lightroom, Affinity Design
- Note-taking: GoodNotes (iPadOS), OneNote (Desktop), Markdown (universal)
- Mail: Apple Mail, Outlook, GMail
Photos of my Desk Setup throughout the Time
January, 2022

2021

Work office, 2021

2020

Bonus I: Books
- System Design Interview by Alex Xu & Sahn Lam — Completed, 2022-06-19
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann — in progress
- Site Reliability Engineering by Beyer, Jones, Petoff, Murphy — in progress
- DSA Analysis by Clifford A. Shaffer — in progress
- Pattern Recognition and ML by Christopher M. Bishop — to read
- Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman — to read
- Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love — to read
Bonus II: Music