Software I Love

Here’s a list of all the software, technologies, and hardware I use on a daily basis. Links to paid services/products may be affiliated links. Here you can find my configuration files (if there are any).

Technology I develop with

Web Development (static)

• HTML5: The classic, most used markup language for web content since almost two decades ago.

• CSS3: Paired with HTML5, it is the global standard to give stylize the web.

• JavaScript (ECMAScript): The core programming language of the World Wide Web. Paired with ECMAScript (the most common JS standard), it gives a solid foundation for web programming.

• Astro: A component-based static site generator written in JS, using modern technologies. It compiles components on the server side. My personal go-to for fast, static prototypes.

• Hugo: A fast, lightweight, scalable, free and open source framework static site generator written in Go.

• Gatsby: Built on top of React and GrapQL, it allows to build quick, performat, SEO compliant websites (especially if familiar with React).

• Markdown: A lightweight markup language to creat formatted content with plain-text.

• LaTeX: A markup language commonly used for scientific and heavy mathematical notation.

Web Development (dynamic)

• Linux: Popular free and open source operating system used for servers, desktops and embedded services. I use it as a daily driver (extra cool points for Archlinux btw), and as so, have domain of its command-line tools, package managers, filesystem distribution, networking, monitoring, among others. Archlinux in particular, is a simple and lightweight distribution, based in the KISS design principle.

• Node: A free and open source runtime environment. It basically allows to run server-side JavaScript.

• React: The most popular JavaScript front-end library for user interfaces. Component based.

• Vue: A progressive free and open source JavaScript Framework. Performant, comprehensive, and with an easier learning curve in my opinion than React.

• jQuery: A feature-rick JavaScript library. It facilitates document traversal and manipulation, nowadays is a declining technology but still worth keeping an eye on for legacy code.

• Ajax: An approach to asynchronoys JavaScript with XML/JSON.

• PHP: A general-purpose scripting language suited to web development.

• Laravel: The most popular PHP framework. Expressive and elegant, it shoots the beauty of PHP through the moon, absolutely worth learning PHP just for this.

• Tailwind: An extremely granular CSS framework, it gives a lot more flexibility than most CSS frameworks. My go-to for more complex projects.

• Bulma: A modern CSS framework that just works. My personal go-to for quick prototypes.

• Bootstrap: A powerful and extensible frontend toolkit. A bit less flexible than Bulma, but much more well established.

• Sass: A powerful CSS preprocessor. It is basically a compiler to give super powers to your CSS.

Data Analysis

• MySQL: One of the most popular open source relational databases in the world. I prefer using it with the LAMP stack.

• MongoDB: A popular open source NoSQL database. I prefer using it with the MERN/MEVN stack.

• SQL Server: A propietary SQL database developed by Microsoft.

Mobile Development

• React Native: An alternative to create native mobile apps for developers who are familiar with plain React.

• Expo: Free and open source platform for building mobile applications with React Native. It gives a set of tools that eases the path to build small, performant, responsive and compatible apps for small development teams.

Web Development

• Godot: A free and open source game engine. Simple, fast and lightweight, it is my go-to for game development. Everything about it is so beautiful. It uses GDScript (a language very similar to Python).

• Unity: A more common alternative for game development. It uses C#, and has the advantage of an extensive asset store.

Hardware Development

• Arduino: Free and open source electronic prototyping platform for hardware programming. It's programming language is very similar to C++.

• VHDL: A hardware description language to model the behavior of digital systems through the use of logic gates. It uses a verbose syntax that tries to emulate the english language.

• Verilog: Another very common hardware description language developed by Gateway Design Automation. It has a more concise syntax, making it similar to languages like C.

Software I use

• Neovim: The best text editor in the world. It's not even close. Simple, modular, lightweight, and purely terminal based! My configuration. I also have a very minimal configuration for Vim vanilla.

• Dwm: A dynamic window manager for X, very simple and barebones. It's part of the suckless tools. My configuration.

• Zsh: A very customizable interactive shell. I use it along with Oh My Zsh, an open source framework for Zsh. My configuration.

• VSCodium: The second best text editor. Don't use VSCode, and all of Microsoft's telemetry garbage.

• Firefox: The only non-chromium browser so, it's something. free and open source.

• Qutebrowser: A keyboard-focused browser, VIM-like keybindings, it has some compatibility issues, but it is extremely comfortable to use. My configuration.

• Thunderbird: A free and open source email application by Mozilla.

• Libreoffice: A free and open source office suite, it may not be as extensive as Microsoft Office but it works fine for 99% of the time.

• VLC: Probably the most known piece of free and open source software. An amazing video player.

• Alacritty: A free and open source terminal emulator. Very extensive and with sensible defaults. My configuration.

• Inkscape: A very complete free and open source vector graphics editor.

• Krita: A free and open source painting program. One of the most extensible and complete pieces of software out there.

• Aseprite: The best drawing tool for pixelart.

• Rofi: A very minimal application launcher. Part of the suckless tools. My configuration.

• Lf: A minimal terminal file manager. My configuration.

• Vimwiki: A note-taking plugin for Vim.

• Flameshot: A free and open source screenshot taking application. A linux alternative to Lightshot.

• MPV: Free and open source, terminal based. The true best media player of the world (don't tell anyone).

• Cmus: A small, fast, beautiful, free and open source music player for the terminal. My configuration.

• Ncspot: A ncurses spotify client written in Rust, free and open source. Spotify in the tarminal, yay! My configuration.

• Zathura: A free and open source, highly customizable and functional document viewer. Very minimalistic. My configuration.

Hardware I use

• Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7: ThinkPad is the best, what else is there to say.

This Website

• Vultr: My preferred VPS provider. Having your own VPS gives that much more freedom. A cheap Debian server to host most of my projects and the deal is done.

• Nginx: My Web Server of choice. Built around newer technology, lightweight and faster for static content. For a bit more complex projects good old Apache will do.

Fonts

• JetBrains Mono Nerd Font: My personal go-to for coding, a stylized and very well mantained font ideal for any monospaced environment.

• Recursive Font: A more modern aproach to monospaced fonts, it aims for a more general approach, offering sans and monospaced alternatives. It is the font you are reading this on.