Uses
A somewhat comprehensive list of tools, apps, hardware, and more that I use on a daily basis to design and code things. And yeah, that is a Johnny Mnemonic GIF in the background.
Design
- Any video I made is edited with Sony Vegas Pro 19. So far I haven’t found a opensource product that’s as good. If anyone has suggestions please message me.
- For any 3D models I use Blender. Since 2.8 it’s become way simpler to use and in a lot of ways better than expensive paid tools like 3DS Max or Maya.
Development
- I use Visual Studio Code as my text editor, with the Atom One Dark theme and Operator Mono as my typeface of choice.
- Firefox is my main browser for both development and general use. (ARC will be my replacement when it comes to windows)
- React is my front end Javascript library of choice. The component-centric mental model is the first thing that truly made sense to me as a designer.
- For 3D effects and image shaders I use three.js. It has a bit of a learning curve but you can do some really powerful stuff with it.
- For CSS I’ve used a myriad pre-processors and css-in-js solutions like styled-components, but these days I’m using vanilla CSS with PostCSS to get upcoming CSS features today.
- For Javascript animations I use Framer Motion, it’s a great way to add spring animations to React and three.js.
Hardware
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 3600x | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | Gigabyte RTX 2060 v2 | ||||
| Memory | Corsair Vegance 4x8 32gb | ||||
| Motherboard | MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max | ||||
| Storage | WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 1TB (Main SO Windows) | WD Blue SATA SSD M.2 2280 500GB (Secondary SO Fedora Workstation) | SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB (Programs) | KIOXIA-EXCERIA SATA SSD 1TB (Games) | ST1000DM010-2EP102 1TB (Files) |
| Monitors | AOC 1080p 165hz 21inches (Curved) | Samsung 75hz 17inches (Vertical) | |||
| Keyboard | Newskill Serike TKL | ||||
| Mouse | Logitech G502 Hero | ||||
| Headphones | Razer Kraken Tournament | ||||
| Laptop | Lenovo Thinkpad E16 (AMD R7, 40gb RAM, 1TB SSD, Fedora 39) |