General

Everyday tools I couldn't live without.


Obsidian

This app is my bread and butter for literally everything. I use it to plan my life, write down ideas, map out my projects, and so so much more. I've gotten great use out of daily notes and the Tracker plugin for graphing out my habits, mood, and money over the last year. It's genueinly been monumental for me. Below I've listed some of the most useful plugins I've encountered that completely transformed the way I use the app.

Plugins:

  • Tracker
    • Compiles the data from inside the YAML heads of my daily notes and graphs them
  • Advanced Canvas
    • Adds some useful functionality to charts making them more useful for applications like network charts or flow charts
  • Waypoint
    • Pretty basic in function but can be super useful for someone like me who ikes to segment my notes under categories but still wants them to be linked automatically
  • Timeline
    • Used to make timelines out of markdown, super useful for TTRPG worldbuilding or taking notes on historical topics
  • Templater
    • Like the name implies, turning notes into templates. I don't use it to it's full potential but I know if used properly can be super powerful
  • ASCII Tree Generator
    • Does pretty much exactly what you're seeing right now, but with markdown lists. Super useful for laying out file paths when planning projects
  • File Explorer Note Count
    • Just shows how many files are under each folder in the side bar, nothing crazy but can be useful
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Themes

  • WY Console
    • I LOVE this theme. It tickles my ADHD just enough to make me feel like an elite hacker even though I'm just taking notes. I will say... using this in public definitely gets... reactions

Mulvad VPN

Just the best VPN around. Hands down. Works great on all my devices, great options, cool team. What else can you really ask for? Their browser is pretty good too, just slightly too security forward to be my daily driver.

Tailscale

Super powerful tool to bridge your devices under one "network". Awesome for checking on my home network on the go and accessing self hosted tools from anywhere.

Chrome Remote Desktop

Yeah yeah I know. Not the most secure deployment level solution out there, but for checking a render on my workstation from my phone or starting up an app while I'm away from home it just works.

Windows Power toys

Especially Power rename, quick image resize, and fancy zones are my favorites.

IT

My favorite tools, programs, and helpful resources that allow me to put out fires more efficiently.


YUMI

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Clonezilla

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CrystalDiskMark

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Belena Etcher

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Homelab

My favorite scripts, tools, containers, and more.


ProxMox

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NTFY

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Trunas Scale

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Docker

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Code Server

This container is absolutely legendary. It's basically VS code hosted in a browser, which sounds simple at first, but it's enabled me to do so many things. It easily syncs my progress between devices, and brings full fat VS code power to devices that were never an option (like the iPad I am typing this on right now). In combination with tailscale this set up is out of this world for someone looking to shred some VS code on the go! I've heard theres a solid collaborative aspect to it but do your own research on that. I would recommend opening port 3000 & 3001 as well as the default 8000/80 when deploying this container for live view extension to work properly!

One other thing I will also add is that depending on what you are developing it can be extremely useful to build your own image and set up your Docker compose properly to allow for persistant configs. I ran into some issues when working with python and having to reinstall and set up everything as well as virtual envirnments breaking every time I had to rebuild my container. In retrospect duh, but at the time I hadn't really considered that.

Plugins:

  • Live Server Lite
    • Hosts a live server locally to view your code
  • Auto Rename Tag
    • Much like the name implies, it renames the opening/closing tag when you do the other.
  • Image Preview
    • Another self explanatory plugin, shows previews of images when you hover over them in your code.
  • Typos Spell Checker
    • Same as the two before. Spell check.

Themes

  • grubby-theme
    • Classy Gruvbox style theme for when I'm chilling working on some code at a coffee shop
  • Deepdark Theme (Full Black)
    • Dark theme with some color pop for late night code sessions
  • 2077
    • Do I really use this? Meh. Do I absolutely love it? Hell yeah.

Graphic Design

The tools I use to create the images in my mind.


Blender

Free and open-source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software. Perfect for creating 3D assets for games, films, and designs.

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Hardware

My favorite gadgets and gizmos that I couldn't live without.


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Misc.

Whatever other misc. tools and resources I find useful but don't fit in a catefogy!


CoreTemp

This is a pretty basic tool but I really like it. Pretty much just shows your CPU temps in the taskbar. That it, I just like the way it looks and can be useful to check on things at a quick glance! I think it also comes with some sort of server option that can host a feed of the temps to other devices which could be super cool for some projects (maybe like an esp32 that pulls the temps and changes the lighting based on it in your room) But I've never tried it.

SignalRGb

Just a really good RGB management software that syncs with a ton of different devices. Solves the age old problem of having like 6 different RGB programs for your different devices and none of them quite sync up right