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Inspired by Natalie and Wes Bos, this is a fairly comprehensive list of tools and things I use frequently. Let me know if you have any suggestions!

Code & Terminal

Visual Studio Code is my daily driver code editor, and also general text editor, and has been pretty much from the very start (I used to use Notepad and the Atom editor for a very brief period, but we don’t talk about that).
My terminal of choice is the lovely iTerm2 when I’m on macOS, and I’m currently using kitty on Linux, but may change that up at some point.
You’ll be hard pressed to see me not using Iosevka as a monospace font.
I use fish for my interactive shell, with my custom lumin prompt and a bunch of extra config.

My desktop is currently running a AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT (16 cores) with 32GB 3200MT/s RAM and an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, on the ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS Wi-Fi and all packed inside a white Fractal North XL.
My personal laptop is a MacBook Air M1 8GB RAM with 256GB storage.
My work laptop is a MacBook Air M1 16GB RAM with 512GB storage.
I also have a Steam Deck 512GB LCD that I occasionally use.

My desktop is running NixOS, a fully declarative Linux distribution, with KDE Wayland for the environment. You can check out my system configuration in my dotfiles.
My personal MacBook runs regular macOS but also uses nix-darwin on top of it, which is also configured through the same dotfiles repository.
I use Vivaldi as my main browser currently, but I am interested in trying out Zen soon.
Obsidian is my Markdown editor/note-taking app of choice, not that I really take any notes
qimgv is the closest equivalent to the awesome IrfanView from Windows, that I’ve found for Linux.
I use Affinity Suite for occasional in-depth image editing, while I use Pinta for anything else.
I use Orbstack for managing Docker on my MacBooks, and also to spin up the occasional Linux VM.

My desk is Secretlab’s Magnus Pro XL, which gives me tons of space to spread items on it (AKA make a huge mess that builds up over time).
My displays are 2 AOC CQ27G2X’s (1440p, 180Hz, VA panel) both horizontal, mounted with Secretlab’s Dual Monitor Arm.
I sit on the Secretlab Titan Evo XL in Arctic White, though I probably should have gone with one of their leatherette options, as this has stained pretty badly over time and has probably absorbed a lot of my sweat. In the future I hope to get some sort of Herman Miller Aeron, but that’ll take a good deal of saving up.
My current keyboard is the ZSA Voyager with Sunset tactile choc switches. Previously I used the ZSA Moonlander. Both are very very nice split ergonomic keyboards, I just wish the Voyager had an extra column of keys on each side.
My mouse is the Logitech G Pro X Superlight and my mousepad is the suuuper smooth ARTISAN RAIDEN XSOFT.
I have some random Belkin 4-port charging hub for charging my phone, laptops, and also to power a miscellaneous ring light I use for bias lighting.
I also have a small caddy for storing random doodads and my wallet & keys, which I modelled & 3D printed to fill out a small knitted basket I got from my nanna.

My everyday headphones are the Sennheiser HD 600.
Audio from my desktop and my record player is sent through a FIIO K7 DAC, which gets piped through a Dayton Audio DSP-408 for EQ, and then is finally sent to the headphones through the Schiit Magni.
On the go I use Apple AirPods Pro 2, which I actually think sound pretty good.
I also carry around a pair of Audio Technica M50xBT’s, in purple! For the rare occasion that I need to plug into something for audio while I’m out.
My microphone for my desktop is an AKG P120 on an Elgato Wave Mic Arm LP, going into a 1st-gen Focusrite Scarlett Solo as my audio interface.