Uses

Stuff I’m currently using.

The OS

Mainly because it is Debian-based, easy to customize, and great at handling multiple screens with differing resolutions and DPIs.

I also use Windows for occasional gaming, but I got a Steam Deck (❤️) so it will be even more occasional now.

The Software

• Browser: Brave
• Code Editor: VSCode.
• Database Client: DBeaver
• API Testing: Insomnia
• Shell: ZSH + Oh My ZSH!

Programming Languages, Frameworks and others.

• Languages: 🐍 Python, TypeScript and SQL.
• Backend Frameworks: FastAPI, Django, and NodeJS.
• Frontend Frameworks: React + NextJS and Astro.
• Database Engines: PostgreSQL is my go-to, but I’ve touched most major engines. I hate Mongo 😠.
• Data Science stuff: Pandas, Polars, Redshift for warehousing, PySpark, Airflow, probably every AWS and GCP Data-related product (sorry Azure), Metabase, a ton of NLP libraries, DVC, Tensorflow and Pytorch, scikit-learn + XGboost + LightGBM for quick models, Pycaret for even quicker models, optuna for good models, and I’m probably forgetting a few. I’ve spent a ton of time in Data Science 📊.
• Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS and Heroku (RIP 💀). I’m currently most familiar with AWS’s offerings, in particular for web deployment and data.

👨‍💻 My Workstation

I’ve been building this baby since 2013 (initially for gaming). I used my first-ever salary for the first set of parts, and stuff had been getting replaced up until ~2019. It reeeeally needs another update, but life + the GPU market have been holding me back. Anyway, most of my work gets done on it.

🖥 Internals

• Board: MSI B450 Tomahawk MAX
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 3700X
• RAM: Corsair 32GB DDR4 3200Hz
• GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 1070Ti
• Storage: 1x M.2 NVMe Samsung 970 EVO + 2x Western Digital Blue SATAs

🖥️ Monitors

• 1x ViewSonic XG2402
• 2x LG 27UL500-W

Mouse🐁 and Keyboard ⌨️

• Mouse: Logitech G403
• Keyboard: Keychron Q6

Hopefully next year I take the leap and upgrade everything! But alas, I’ve said that for like 5 years now.

📱 Gadgets and other cool stuff

• 3D Printer: Bambu Lab P1S. This beauty is amazing. I love it 🤟.
• Tinkering Toy: Raspberry Pi 4. It’s been used as a home-wide VPN, a 3D printer manager, a Steam game streamer for my TV, a temporary server for one of my companies, and of course as a paperweight. I want to use it for a robot, but robotics is still black magic to me.
• Gaming Console: Besides my computer I had a Switch and a PS5. I barely used the PS5, the Switch has too few good games and I had played all of the great ones, so I sold both. I used the money to get myself a Steam Deck 🚀.
• Work Chair: Premium chair from Bound. It’s like sitting on a cloud.