// Uses
Tools & Gear
The stuff I use daily. Half of it I chose carefully, the other half I fell into and now can't leave.
~/ hardware
Keychron K8Mechanical keyboard — types all day without fatigue
Sony WH-1000XM4Noise-cancelling headphones — best friend of every deep-work session
~/ editor
VS CodeMain editor — lives in the terminal, open and code
SSHRemote work on the homelab — everything through the terminal
~/ languages
TypeScriptPrimary language — strict enough to stop me shooting my own foot
JavaScriptThe ancestor — runs everywhere
BashThe glue for every homelab script
PythonFor tooling and automation
~/ backend
Node.js / NestJSMain backend framework
PostgreSQLPrimary database — mission critical
MongoDB / RedisSecondary store & cache
Kafka / ConfluentEvent streaming — where everything goes boom
~/ infra
Proxmox VEHomelab hypervisor — the foundation of everything
DockerContainers — package and forget
AnsibleAutomation — config without hand-typing
CloudflareDNS, Tunnel, Access — the gateway outside
Kubernetes (GKE)Production at work
~/ ai
Hermes AgentAI daily driver — my second brain
OllamaLocal LLM — powers the Vietnamese voice assistant
DeepSeek / GPTModels behind Hermes
~/ self-hosted
MinifluxRSS reader — replaced doomscrolling with a morning briefing
SearXNGPrivate search — nobody's tracking
Home AssistantThe brain of the smart home
ForgejoPrivate git server — my code, my server
GrafanaMonitoring — see it before it blows up