Tools

Hardware

Apple Mac mini — Mine is a base m4 with 16Gb of RAM. Sounds kinda meh, but its by far the fastest mac I’ve ever used.
Apple MacBook Pro - Mine is laughably old; its from 2015. Dual core i5 with 8Gb of memory. Its a tank though. These days its living out its best life with cachyOS.
[Beelink Mini Server]
[Synology DJ220S]

Edifier Bookshelf Speakers - Impressive sound and not terribly expensive.
Anker Noise Canceling Headphones - Picked these up on a whim when my older headphones crumbled to dust. They sound great and are pretty comfortable.
AudioPRO Microphone - No real real frills but sounds decent to me.
Sudgho Lavelier - Cheap and basic but sound better than the AudioPRO when moving around on podcasts.

Keychron K10 - Just clicky enough without being super loud.
Apple Magic Trackpad - Yeah, super expensive but oh so nice. I’m on my second one, but current one is 10 years in and it feels and works like new. I suspect that all other pointing devices are likely ruined for me.

Claude - The one I find the best for code stuff. I happily pay for a pro account.
chatGPT - My gateway drug for AI, not a paid user, but use it cross referencing.
Gemini - I think its the best for image related stuff with Nano Banana. I don’t pay to use it directly but get some boosted usage as a perk with my Google One account.

Silver Bullet - Notes very similar to Obsidian but in a browser. Includes a PWA for offline use.
Bitwarden - Not quite as polished as 1password, but fits my needs and I run my own VaultWarden server.
Immich - locally hosted image storage and management. If you don’t look too closely, you’d swear it was Google Photos.
Apple Reminders - my task management needs are pretty modest, so its a pretty good fit. Reminders also has sync dialed in tight. All that being said, I’m test driving web based Tududi in my quest to manage all my own data.