My Stack
This page lays out the stack of tools and software that I use as part of both my personal and professional life.
This website is built using Quarto and hosted on GitHub Pages. Quarto is the successor to R Markdown, and if you’ve used R Markdown before, you’ll know why that is a big plus. Think Jupyter notebooks but an order of magnitude better.
My personal PC is an HP Envy running Windows because I stubbornly refuse to use an Apple product because of this product selling mentality123. I have tried running pure Ubuntu but ran into a bunch of driver issues which meant I couldn’t vary the screen brightness, so instead, I use WSL to run Ubuntu and use Windows for everything else because it just works.
For an IDE, I’m between VSCode and Cursor, having recently switched. I’m still trying to find the best way of adding an LLM into my workflow - I’m sure I’ll be using a new IDE/LLM setup next week! For Python, I use pyenv as it covers environment management and Python version management, but I have tested UV and looking to make the switch soon.
I use Gravatar for my profile pictures, which is a service that allows you to use a profile picture from a URL using your email address as the identifier as a hash. Every website should support Gravatar (Sadly, not all do.)