/uses

My setup

Hardware, software and services that I use every day.

Hardware

• MacBook Pro – My main work machine for development and system administration.
• Home Server – A small dedicated server for self-hosting; runs Cloudron as its management layer.

Development & Terminal

• VS Code – An editor for code and configuration files.
• iTerm2 + zsh – Terminal setup on macOS.
• Git & GitHub CLI – Version control and repository management.
• Node.js / npm – Runtime environment for Astro and custom scripts.

Infrastructure & Self-Hosting

• Cloudron – A self-hosted app platform; it runs, amongst other things, FreeScout, an email server and various web apps.
• GitHub Actions – CI/CD for the automated building and deployment of this site and the contact form backend.
• Apache / LAMP – For PHP-based services (contact form, redirect rules).

Services

• Mastodon – My social network of choice: @jay@social.jf-l.de.
• FreeScout – Self-hosted helpdesk for incoming enquiries.
• Bitwarden-compatible – self-hosted password management.

This portfolio

• Astro – Static site generator.
• Pure CSS – No UI framework, custom design tokens.
• Cloudron Pages – Hosting the dist/ folder you have created.

Inspired by uses.tech – a directory of /uses pages.