FAQs
A card file for shit you may want to know about me. Some are true, some are not, it doesn’t really make a difference as you don’t know me personally.
Defaults
People are writing about their default apps in the small community that is the indie web. Here are mine.
This is a running list taken from a post from the end of last year.
📫 Mail Server/Service and Client
- Fastmail on iOS and iPadOS
- FMail2, free and open source Fastmail client for macOS
📝 Notes - Notes app
- Obsidian
✅ To-do - Things
- Taskpaper
📸 iPhone Photography - Moment Pro Photo app
📹 iPhone videography - Moment Pro Photo app
- Filmic Pro Legacy
🟦 Photo Management - RAW Photos
- Photos.app
- PowerPhotos (macOS only)
📆 Calendar - Calendars 366
- Structured Calendar (Lifetime purchase)
📆 Calendar Backend - Fastmail
- iCloud
📂 Cloud File Storage - iCloud
- Nextcloud[1]
- Synology Drive
📰 RSS - NetNewsWire & Readwise Reader
- RSS Backend iCloud[2]
🔍 Browser - Arc
- Safari
💬 Chat - iMessage
- Signal
- IRC
🔖 Bookmarks - Notes.app
- Goodlinks
📜 Word Processing - VS Code
🤑 Budgeting - Google Sheets
- My bank app
🎶 Music - Downloaded tracks with yt-dlp
- IINA on macOS
- Still need to pony up for iTunes Match
- YouTube Music
🎙️ Podcasts - Overcast, though I am really finding I am done with the majority of Apple and tech focused podcasts. Been listening to this stuff for over 10 years now. Need a breather.
🔐 Password Management - 1Password[3]
- Vaultwarden[4]
📸 Photo Editing - RAW Photos
- Darkroom
- Photomator
- Pixelmator Pro
- Pixelmator Photo
What are yours?
I am unfortunately still out of work and I’ve had to find creative ways to cut back on expenses. I self host a lot of services where I am staying, my friend’s mom letting me setup my home lab in my room. I can host these services for free. It is not for the faint of heart; if you hate tinkering, if you hate doing research on bug fixing and troubleshooting, if you hate learning how to secure a network and fight the bots that will inevitably pummel your network with junk packets, if you hate YAML, it isn’t for you. ↩︎
I am looking at moving away from as many proprietary services as I can so FreshRSS, another self-hosted alternative to RSS backends will be my move. NetNewsWire has the option to grab your feeds from your own self-hosted RSS service. ↩︎
I love 1Password. I have everything in it. The problem for me right now is affordability. I don’t think it is possible for me to switch as it’s just too important to my workflow; ssh keys, GitHub tokens, all of this built right into the client. It’s just too good. ↩︎
I am testing out Vaultwarden as a 1Password alternative. It is an open source client you can, surprise surprise, self-host. It is severely lacking in features so it looks like 1Password is still my go to for the foreseeable future. ↩︎
Rig
I am anxiously awaiting the time to build my white lightning PC.
You can find my parts list on PC Parts Picker or refer to the table below.
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $4092.55
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-04-16 23:39 EDT-0400 |