Things I use.

The battery life alone makes this worth it. I stopped thinking about plugging in.

Transparency mode is awesome!

My favorite backpack of all time.

Hosts everything: LXCs for services, VMs for heavier workloads. The web UI is good enough that I rarely SSH into the host directly.

More capable than any consumer router and I actually understand what it's doing.

I use this every single day. Subnet routing means my whole homelab is reachable without exposing anything to the internet.

Simple, fast, and good looking. Does exactly what I need.

The overhead is worth it every time. I don't miss debugging type errors at runtime.

Content-heavy sites that need to be fast. The islands architecture is elegant.

Svelte 5 runes make state management feel obvious in a way React never did.

Self-hostable, has a real REST and GraphQL API, and the data studio is something non-technical people can actually use.

Thin enough that I still understand what SQL is being generated, but ergonomic enough that I'm not writing raw queries.

Simple pricing, good networking, and droplets are fast to spin up. I don't need AWS.

Free tier is absurdly generous. Zero Trust tunnels are how I expose homelab services without opening ports.

Syncs secrets into Docker containers and CI without me ever putting a .env file on a server.

React Email templates + Resend is a good combo. The deliverability is solid.

Ligatures off. Clean and readable at small sizes.

Docker Compose is how I deploy. Simple enough to reason about without a full orchestration layer.