What tech do you use?

Read on friend to learn about the hardware and software I use for play and to build Made Mistakes. None of it is terribly exciting or unexpected, but hey — maybe the curious of you will find it interesting.

Hardware

• 🖥️ iMac 24-inch, 2021 M1 model in blue with 8GB of memory, and stock Apple Magic Mouse and keyboard.
• iPad 12.9″ Pro (5th generation) with Magic Keyboard (black) and Apple Pencil (2nd generation).
• 📱 iPhone 13 Pro with Graphite finish.
• ⌚️ Apple Watch Series 5 with Space Gray aluminum case.
• AirPods Pro (1st generation).
• AirPods (2nd generation).
• 📷 Canon Rebel XTi DSLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm and 50mm lenses.

Design and development

• Operating systems: macOS Ventura and Windows 10
• Visual Studio Code with the following notable extensions:
  1. Grammarly
  2. Write Good Linter
  3. Insert Date String
  4. Lorem ipsum
  5. Code Spell Checker
  6. CSS Var Complete
• Sourcetree for Git heavy lifting when VS Code doesn’t cut it.
• Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop, Illustrator, and occasionally AfterEffects.
• Jekyll - Ruby based static site generator.
• Hugo - Go based static site generator.
• Gatsby - React based framework for building websites and apps.

I’ve been on a static site generator kick the last couple of years and use Hugo (previously Gatsby) to build this page and the rest of the site. The basic idea is I write a bunch of text in Markdown and it spits out a set of files that are deployed to a webserver.

This is where I’d link out to my public GitHub repository for this site. But due to a bunch of lazy developers ripping me off and changing the bylines and such I’ve made it private for the time being.

Interested in my previous site designs? Check out my Jekyll themes instead, which are all open source and free for you to use and abuse.

Other software

• BitWarden - password manager.
• Backblaze - cloud backups.

Site stuff

• Hugo build and deployment via GitHub Actions.
• Hosting and CDN via Netlify.
• Domain name registered with Hover.