Outright stealing Sophie’s idea of putting all my praise in one place.

Software

Development

  • Linux
  • VSCodium - Rebuild of VS Code without Microsoft’s marketplace and analytics.
  • PyCharm Community - A lot better for Python than VS Code
  • zsh (with oh-my-zsh)
  • eza the ls replacement

RPGs

  • Basic Fantasy
  • The Black Hack
  • Ultraviolet Grasslands

Smart home crap

I mean if you want to automate your lights off the exchange rate, this is how

  • HomeAssistant - really enjoying having just the little touches round the house taken care of, like light white balance shifting through the day
  • ESPhome - this framework has quite the learning curve but once you’re on it, you start applying it to all the projects in the house

Browser & bits

  • Firefox
  • Bitwarden
  • ClearURLs - take tracking parameters off URLs and have them shorter (admittedly it’s not super reliable)
  • Multi-account containers - I use this extension to sandbox my cookies and separate out the more poisonous trackers, hopefully

Books

Authors I’m currently enjoying:

  • Peter F Hamilton
  • Becky Chambers
  • T Kingfisher

Food & Drink