TBU
Hardware
- Thinkpad x1g8 - Best laptop for Linux, slightly outdated in 2025, still doing good job.
- Macbook Pro M1 Max - power house for heavy duty development.
OS
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Debian GNU/Linux - My distro of choice for 20 years. Stable, customizable, just works (was’t like that in past).
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MacOS - Since M Silicon introduced, you have to try it because it worth it at least as development machine. Apart from that its bloated, and fully controlled.
Development
- Emacs - Using emacs for about +15 years, initially it was very hard to adopt, but after 10 years it was essential thing for me.
- Doom Emacs - This particule emacs confiugration set is one of the most popular.
- Org-Mode - Hard to beat tool for information organization, todo lists, and any other text related work, hard to adopt, but worth trying.
- Git - GIT. If you know you know.
- DBeaver - Most feature reach database client, supports pretty much everything
- URXVT - Less bloated terminal
- iTerm2 - Probably best default choice for MacOS
- Make - I use make file for pretty much every project as helper utility to pipline a lot of things.
- PostgreSQL - Database of choice
Management
- LibreOffice - Spreadsheets are still most usable tool in every project.
- Camunda Modeler - Essential tool for modeling business processes
- PlantUML - Most unix-way and to be honest more conviniet way for me to do any type diagram, even very sophsticated.
- Redmine - Old school Project/Task management tool, - for same work you’re doing with fancy modern tools, if you want self hosted, programmable customizable solution this is a good thing. (Especially if you’re a Ruby programmer)
- Jira - Industry standard, 90% new comers hate it, but this is skill issue. Despite Jira become more bloated, and worse in UX, it still best tools you can use.
Other
- Mail.app - The best option for MacOS, despite a lot of alternative it is still better native option
- Thunderbird - The best open-source option for all platforms.
- Firefox - First option for browsing, but it becoming dumber, slower. Still usable though.
- Brave - Good second option, which might become primary.