Things I use

A living list of the tools, software, and habits that make up my daily setup as a system administrator and cloud engineer.

Last updated: August 19, 2026. Inspired by the /uses community and awesome-uses.

Workstation

• Operating systems: Tahoe.
• Terminal: Termius, Ghostty, tmux.
• Editor: Vim, Visual Studio Code.
• Shell tools: fish shell.

Infrastructure & cloud

• Cloud: OpenNebula private hosted.
• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, with Ansible where they fit the job.
• Containers: TBA.
• Operations: TBA.
• Homelab: TrueNAS, OpenNebula, and older hardware that still has useful work left in it.

Writing & research

• Notes: Markdown files kept close to the code and infrastructure they describe.
• Publishing: Astro, Tailwind CSS, and Cloudflare Pages.
• Reading: documentation first, then source code, issue trackers, and small experiments.

How I choose tools

I prefer boring, well-documented tools that are easy to automate and replace. A tool earns its place when it reduces cognitive load, makes a system easier to understand, or gives future me a reliable path back in. The list will change as the work changes.