Tools, Services, and Media

Inspired by uses.tech, the following is a list of my personal 'stack' as of 2023-07-12.

Back Office Software

Web Browser: Brave
Productivity Suite : Google Workspaces (Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail, Calendar)
Virtual Private Network : Google 1
Password Database : Keepass

Productivity

Task Management (GTD) : Gqueues
- See: Using Gqueues for GTD
Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) : Obsidian.md (Software)
- See Using Obsidian for PKM
Wellness Tracker : Daylio

Development

Integrated Development Environment : Visual Studio Code
Source Code Control : Github
Web Hosting : Vercel
Site Generator 11ty

Languages : Skill Level

💡 See specific projects and experiences on Coding.

SQL : Advanced
R: Intermediate
Rust: Beginner
Python : Beginner
C# : Beginner

Hardware

Phone : Pixel 6a
- OS : Android
Laptop: ASUS S410U
- OS : Windows 10
Desktop : MSI MEG Trident X 10SD-864US
- OS: Windows 10
Portable handheld Gaming: Steamdeck
- OS: Steam OS (Linux)

Ears

Wireless Earbuds: Anker Soundcore Life P3 (for use while running or chores around the house)
Wired Earbuds w/ mic: Bose Quiet Comfort 20 (for meetings and video recording on my laptop)
Wired Headphones: Sennheiser HD 280 Pro (for quality audio and noise isolation at my computer)
Wired Earbuds: Etymotic Research HF5 (for noise isolation while Motorcycling)

Wrist

Fitness Monitor : Fitbit Charge HR 5

Aviation

Aircraft : Cirrus SR-20, SR-22
Avionics : Garmin Perspective+ (G1000++)
Electronic Flight Bag : Garmin Pilot (NOTE: I intend to switch once I get an iPad)
Weather : Windy.com, AviationWeather.Gov

Community and Collaboration : Discord
Social : Mastodon
Instant Messaging : Signal
Evil necessities: Facebook, Twitter

Gaming

Game Storefront : Steam
Games Played, Currently Playing and Backlog: Game Queue

'Uses' Background:

In February 2023 I saw a hacker news that linked to Uses.Tech which is an interesting consolidation of the 'setup, gear, software, and configs' used by software developers. Each listed software developer includes a link to that developer's own hosted /uses/ page.

At first I wasn't sure how the website was able to find and consolidate all the information without any apparent schema as all the developer websites seemed to be formatted differently. I then noticed at the bottom of the Uses.tech website that a link to the Github Repo that describes what the project is and how to contribute. Sadly, there is no magic happening. I was thinking maybe a web crawler searching for an consolidating tags from all websites with a /uses/ page. It turns out folks manually submit their data via a pull request and just link to their personal website.

It's still a nifty directory and I intend to submit a PR to have my own /uses/ information included. Following is a snippet of the json that is included in the PR to have content included in the site:

  {
    name: 'Isaac Wyatt',
    description: 'Aviator, Mountaineer, SAAS/Tech, Coder, GTD & PKM Nerd, SF Bay Area to Seattle, Angel & Advisor, BBA, MBA',
    url: 'https://isaacwyatt.com/uses',
    twitter: '@isaacwyatt',
    emoji: '🤓',
    country: '🇺🇸',
    computer: 'windows',
    phone: 'android',
    tags: [
      'API',
      'GitHub',
      'HTML',
      'Windows',
      'Markdown',
      'Vercel',
      'REST',
      'SASS',
      'SEO',
      'Coder',
      'VS Code',
      'SQL',
      'Python',
      'C#',
      'R',
      'Low-Code',
      'No-Code',
      'JSON',
      'Angel Investing',
      'GTD',
      'PKM',
      'Aviator',
      'Pilot',
      'Marketer',
      'Bald',
      'HashiCorp',
      'NewRelic',
      'Google',
      'Alphabet',
      'VSCode',
      'Mountaineer',
      'Seattle',
      'SF Bay Area',
      'Coder',
      'BBA',
      'MBA',
      'FIRE',
      'Motorcycles',
      'Video Games'
    ],
  },