What I actually use, not what I get paid to recommend. Most of it is free and open source. The few links marked affiliate give me a commission if you buy through them; it costs you the same.
Gear #
- Raspberry Pi 4 · affiliate, Mercado Libre (Mexico). My home server: I run my own services and experiments on it.
- Razer Siren Mini · affiliate, Mercado Libre (Mexico). The mic I record my video voiceovers with.
Work #
- VSCodium . VS Code without Microsoft’s telemetry.
- Obsidian . My notes and channel planning.
- draw.io . Architecture and flow diagrams.
- LibreOffice . Documents and spreadsheets.
- Coupler.io · affiliate. Moving GA4 data into Google Sheets. How I use it .
Content #
- OBS Studio . Screen and voice recording.
- DaVinci Resolve . Video editing (the free version).
- Motion Canvas . Animations made with code.
- Penpot . Thumbnails and design, open source.
This site #
- Hugo and Cloudflare Pages . How this blog is built and hosted, for free.
- Umami . Cookie-free analytics that don’t track you.
- Carrd · affiliate. My first website; still my pick for a link in bio. Tutorial here .
Privacy and everyday #
- KeePassXC . My passwords, in a file I control. Why I chose it .
- LocalSend . Sending files between my computer and phone without the cloud.
- LineageOS . My phone’s OS, without Google apps preinstalled.