(last updated 26/08/2026)

Computers

• Custom Desktop running Ubuntu MATE 26.04 LTS
  • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X processor
  • Intel Arc B580 12GB GPU (recently upgraded from AMD RTX 7600 8GB)
  • I also have a refurbished Dell Latitude laptop (also running Ubuntu MATE) though I don’t really use it all that much these days
• Google Pixel 8 smartphone

Software

• Browser: Firefox
• Text editors
  • Zed for large repos
  • Vim for most other things
• Note taking: Obsidian
• Terminal: Kitty
• Music Player: Strawberry
• Flashcards: Anki
  • Japanese sentence Anki decks: Ankidrone
• AI:
  • Coding agent: Claude Code
    • I have also used Zed’s built in coding agent when trying out open-weight models (both local and remotely hosted)
    • Simon Willison’s llm tool for small queries and scripts
  • Local LLM server: koboldcpp
  • Local LLMs:
    • Text completion: TheDrummer/Rocinante-XL-16B-v1-GGUF (Q4_K_M) and similar
    • Instruction tuned: Usually Gemma 4 models of various sizes depending on use case

Online

• Website:
  • This website is running on Cloudflare Pages automatically deployed from a (private) GitHub repo
  • The blog is a Hugo site using the hugo-bearblog theme
  • My blog was previously hosted by Bearblog: https://furretnz.bearblog.dev/
• Task tracking / motivation: Beeminder
• Chat inbox: Beeper
• Music:
  • YouTube Music for streaming, Bandcamp (and physical CDs) for purchasing
• RSS: just remember the URL lol