Omake 🍵

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.

🍎 Apple

My Apple Gear:

  • iPhone 13 Pro, 256gb
  • M1 iPad Pro 2021, 512gb
  • iPad 10th Gen
  • iPhone 6s
  • M1 Mac Mini, 1tb
✅ 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

  • ProtonMail
  • Fastmail on iOS and iPadOS
  • FMail2, free and open source Fastmail client for macOS


    📝 Notes
  • Trilium, self hosted
  • Obsidian


    ✅ To-do
  • Nextcloud Tasks


    📸 Mobile Photography
  • Moment Pro Photo app
  • Google Pixel stock camera


    📹 iPhone videography
  • Moment Pro Photo app
  • Filmic Pro Legacy


    🟦 Photo Management
  • RAW Photos
  • PowerPhotos (macOS only)
  • PhotoPrism, selfhosted
  • Immich, aslo selfhosted


    📆 Calendar
  • Calendars 366
  • Structured Calendar (Lifetime purchase)


    📆 Calendar Backend
  • Nextcloud
  • Proton


    📂 Cloud File Storage
  • Nextcloud[1]


    📰 RSS
  • NetNewsWire on iPad and macOS
  • ReadYOU on Android
  • RSS Backend: FreshRSS iCloud[2]


    🔍 Browser
  • Arc
  • Safari


    💬 Chat
  • iMessage
  • Signal
  • IRC
  • Wire
  • Matrix


    🔖 Bookmarks
  • Omnivore
  • Goodlinks


    📜 Word Processing
  • VS Code


    🤑 Budgeting
  • Actual, selfhosted
  • Google Sheets
  • My bank app


    🎶 Music
  • Jellyfin
  • Fintunes


    🎙️ 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?

  1. 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. ↩︎

  2. 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. ↩︎

  3. 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. ↩︎

  4. 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. ↩︎

🩵 Favorites
  • Beverage: Lemonade Tea, minimal sugar
  • Color: Red
  • Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
  • Dessert: ice cream 🍦
  • Linux Distro: NixOS
  • Movie: Lots of them
  • OS: macOS
  • Programming Language: Python, Golang
  • Singer/Songwriter: You probably never heard of her
🪖 Rig

Everything I’ve collected so far for my White Lightning PC Build

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core, 24-Thread CPU
  • Corsair RMX 850x Gold White Series PSU
  • CORSAIR - LL Series, LL120 RGB, 120mm RGB LED Fan, Triple Pack with Lighting Node PRO - White
  • CORSAIR - VENGEANCE RGB PRO SL 32GB (2PK x 16GB) 3600MHz DDR4 RAM
  • CORSAIR - iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX, 360mm Radiator, Liquid CPU Cooler - White
  • LIAN LI PC-O11 Dynamic Case White
  • Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD
  • GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4060 AERO OC 8G Graphics Card - White
  • Redragon K530 Pro Draconic 60% Wireless RGB Mechanical Keyboard - White
  • Redragon Gaming Mouse, Wired Gaming Mouse with RGB Backlit, 8000 DPI - White
  • CORSAIR HS80 RGB WIRELESS Multiplatform Gaming Headset iCUE Compatible - White
  • LG UltraGear 27GN950-B 27" UHD 3840 x 2160 (4K)
🕹️ Games
Favorite PS5 Games
  • Returnal
  • God of War
  • Elden Ring
  • Solar Ash
  • Cat Quest
Favorite PS3 Games
  • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • Call of Duty Modern Warefare 2
  • Assassin's Creed (the first one)
  • God of War Trilogy
  • Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Favorite PS2 Games
  • Castlevania Curse of Darkness
  • Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 2
  • God of War
  • Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies
  • Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  • Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
⚙️ Gear
My stable of mechanical keyboards
  • Keychron K2 Wireless with Drop Cyberpunk Keycaps
  • Keychron Q1
Things I use for YouTube and streaming
  • Audio Technica 2040 XLR Mic
  • Focusrite Solo Audio Interface
  • elgato Wave Boom Arm, extended
  • beyerdynamic 770 pro closed back headphones
Tools and lab gear
⚱️ In Memoriam
  • Mom, 2021
  • Mark Simmons, I kinda wish you could have seen how much we all loved you, 1996
  • John Sammons, a.k.a Fish, 2020
  • Wes, You were such a handsome fellow, my young self crushing on you hard. Then one day at the dance we always had every last Monday of the month, they said you weren’t gonna be coming back. The lights went down, last spin, and they played Three Dog Night’s Mama Told Me Not to Come. Sometimes I envy your courage. I will never forget your black, wavy hair, big glasses, wry smile, and kind eyes. 1999
  • Shaka, 2005
  • Pat, 1998
  • Gramps, 2001
  • Aunt Renee, 2023
  • Kenny, you sweet, sweet, chubby chasing bastard, 2004
🐧 Linux
My current Distros:
  • NixOS: Daily Driver
  • ZorinOS: Casual browsing
  • Kali: for my put long into the future for now pivot to cybersecurity
  • Fedora: a standby in case NixOS breaks me
🐚 One Liners
🔁 Open Source
🎙️ Podcasts

Some of my favorite podcasts, by category:

Tech podcasts I am currently interested in
  • Remaster
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Go Time
  • Ship It!
  • The Changelog
  • Changelog News
Political and social commentary
  • If Books Could Kill
  • Maintenance Phase
Guys using podcasts as therapy
  • Reconcilable Differences
  • Cortex
Various sports podcasts
  • DK Daily Shot of Steelers
  • Let's Talk Penn State (not a Penn State fan but these guys have a novel approach to sports podcasting)
  • New Heights with Travis and Jason Kelce
  • Shutdown Fullcast
  • The Ringer NFL Show
🪖 Rig

Everything I’ve collected so far for my White Lightning PC Build

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-core, 24-Thread CPU
  • Corsair RMX 850x Gold White Series PSU
  • CORSAIR - LL Series, LL120 RGB, 120mm RGB LED Fan, Triple Pack with Lighting Node PRO - White
  • CORSAIR - VENGEANCE RGB PRO SL 32GB (2PK x 16GB) 3600MHz DDR4 RAM
  • CORSAIR - iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX, 360mm Radiator, Liquid CPU Cooler - White
  • LIAN LI PC-O11 Dynamic Case White
  • Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD
  • GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4060 AERO OC 8G Graphics Card - White
  • Redragon K530 Pro Draconic 60% Wireless RGB Mechanical Keyboard - White
  • Redragon Gaming Mouse, Wired Gaming Mouse with RGB Backlit, 8000 DPI - White
  • CORSAIR HS80 RGB WIRELESS Multiplatform Gaming Headset iCUE Compatible - White
  • LG UltraGear 27GN950-B 27" UHD 3840 x 2160 (4K)
🧰 Selfhosted

I love building out my homelab.

You can find me documenting it on the web