Tools, Toys & Tech I Can’t Shut Up About

Internet Wizardry

• 12ft.io — Skip the paywall and read like it’s 2007.
• Archive.org — Old books, weird games, ancient websites. Yes please.
• Have I Been Pwned / Firefox Monitor — Check if your digital life has leaked.
• SimilarWeb — Traffic stats for websites (yours or others 👀).
• Coolors / Huemint — Choose colors that don’t look like a clown party.
• unDraw — Free, aesthetic illustrations. No attribution. Legends.
• AnswerThePublic — What’s the internet confused about today?
• Cool Backgrounds — For those clean, startup-y visuals.
• Namechk — Find a name that’s actually available. Rare.
• Think with Google — Marketing insights from the mothership.
• Goodbooks — Book recs from smart humans. Vetted.
• Timezone.io — Visualize your remote team's chaos.
• Screely — Turn screenshots into pretty mockups instantly.
• ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service. Finally.
• YouTube Atlas / Twitch Atlas — Maps of creators. Surprisingly fun.
• YC RFS — Where the future might be hiding.
• Haikei — SVGs that make your backgrounds look designed.
• Steve Jobs Archive — For the days when you need fire in your soul.

Software I Reinstall First

• Notion
• F.lux
• 7-Zip
• AutoHotKey
• Davinci Resolve
• Everything
• Figma
• Handbrake
• ImageGlass
• OBS ❤️
• PowerToys
• WinDirStat
• Voicemeeter

Chrome Extensions

Don’t hoard. Just the essentials.

• /Links — I built this one. Get to the websites you want faster.
• Video Speed Controller — Watch anything faster. Even slow lectures.
• Vimium — The browser is now your keyboard playground.
• A Mindful Moment — Also mine. Pauses your new tab brain just long enough to notice.

Setup & Gear

• Phone: iPhone 13
• Laptop: ThinkPad X1 Yoga (2018, second-hand and beautiful)
• Desktop: Mac Mini M4 (base model — punches above its weight)
• Headphones: Random buds + WH-1000XM4 (thank you, internship)
• Reading: Samsung A9 Plus — lives forever, reads well
• Keyboard/Mouse: Cheap for now. Someday: 64-key mech + MX Master.
• Monitors: 2. Always 2.
• Browser: Chrome w/ DuckDuckGo
• OS: Windows + WSL. Linux incoming.
• Hosting: DigitalOcean
• LLM of choice: ChatGPT Premium.

Wanna nerd out about this stuff? Hit me up.