$ ls -la /uses

What I use day to day. Inspired by uses.tech. Everything below is what's actually on my machine right now, not what I aspirationally wish was on my machine.

hardware

personal

• laptop14-inch MacBook Pro (M4) daily driver for everything outside work hours
• phoneGoogle Pixel 10 Pro running GrapheneOS for hardened privacy and security

work

• laptopCompany-issued Windows laptop whichever model is on the current refresh cycle
• phoneiPhone 15 Pro Corporate MDM running. My personal phone is a Pixel on GrapheneOS for maximum control; this one is the opposite philosophy by design.

shared

• monitors2× LG 32UR500K-B 32" 4K, dual external setup
• keyboardRK Royal Kludge RK100 mechanical, 96% layout
• mouseLogitech MX Master 4 at the desk; MacBook trackpad on the go
• audioGoogle Pixel Buds Pro 2 ANC, all-day comfort, integrates fine with macOS for calls

editor & terminal

• editorVS Code with Azure Tools, Bicep, Python, PowerShell, GitHub Pull Requests extensions
• terminalmacOS Terminal built-in, no fluff, gets out of the way
• shellzsh default macOS
• fontJetBrains Mono same as on this site
• browserFirefox privacy-first daily driver, container tabs for work and personal separation

cloud & ops

• primary cloudMicrosoft Azure hundreds of subscriptions worth of muscle memory
• also fluent inAWS & GCP from a multi-year data center migration
• IaCBicep current focusalso: ARM, PowerShell DSC
• CI/CDAzure DevOps Services, GitHub Actions
• observabilityDynatrace, Azure Monitor, Application Insights
• identityEntra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy

languages & scripting

• primaryPowerShell ops automation, Azure SDKs
• application codePython Azure Functions, scripts
• shell scriptingBash glue and CI snippets
• configYAML GitHub Actions, Bicep params, K8s manifests

cli tools i actually live in

• azAzure CLI sometimes more than I'd like to admit
• ghGitHub CLI PRs, runs, secrets without leaving the terminal
• gitobviously signed commits via SSH
• funcAzure Functions Core Tools local function dev
• jqjq JSON wrangling
• curl + digclassics that never let me down

home lab & network

• server boxHP Elite Mini 600 G9 Intel Core i7-13700T, 96 GB RAM, 92 TB storage (external enclosure)
• server OSUbuntu Server headless, Docker for everything
• containersPlex (media), Immich (photo storage), Tailscale (zero-trust remote access without opening ports), Vaultwarden (self-hosted Bitwarden-compatible password vault)
• password vaultVaultwarden Bitwarden-compatible server running in Docker on the home lab. Bitwarden apps on every device connect to it over Tailscale, so secrets never touch the public internet.
• router (built it)pfSense on a Lenovo M720q with an Intel X540-T2 NIC Suricata for IDS/IPS at line rate, pfBlockerNG for DNS-level and IP-level blocking, WireGuard for VPN. Handles a gigabit symmetric link with no slowdown.

this site

• hostingAzure Static Web Apps free tier
• APIPython Azure Function V2 model
• databaseAzure Cosmos DB serverless
• domainrlwilliamson.dev via Namecheap
• CI/CDGitHub Actions pytest-gated deploys
• sourcegithub.com/rlwilliamson-dev/azure-resume

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