Uses

A list of software I use daily to run my technical writing business.

Basecamp

From plain paper to Notion and dozens of other project management tools, I've stumbled upon Basecamp. Basecamp is one of the best for my use case. Simple, sleek and extensible. Fun fact: Basecamp is built by the makers of Ruby on Rails.

Fastmail

I like self-hosting my stuff, but not self-hosting mail. It is a pain in the ass to maintain. I used Apple Mail while I was in the ecosystem, and Apple Mail is great if you are an Apple pro-user. Since I'm now on Fedora, Fastmail works great with Thunderbird.

Fedora

Never was a fan of Windows. Switched to Linux distros in elementary school, lol. Used elementaryOS, Arch, Ubuntu and now Fedora. Ubuntu got crazy unstable for the past couple of months for me. Now rolling Fedora and the experience has been so far fantastic.

Zed

Used Visual Studio Code for over 5 years (prev. Atom) and thought to give Zed a try. UI never freezes, the experience is very smooth. What it lacks is the extension ecosystem. For my workflow it is enough, but it could be better. Been using Zed for development and writing too!

Secrets

Secrets is a password manager for GNOME desktop environments. Under the hood, it uses the KeePass format. Have used KeePassXC but Secrets has a much nicer UI.

BearBlog

The engine for this site. I'm tired of Hugo, WordPress, Ghost and shit ton of CMS'. BearBlog is exactly what I need. A bear bone solution. No fluff. And the developer behind it (Herman) seems to run a decent community around it. I like the Bear manifesto, too. ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ

Accounting & Taxes

No special solutions here. Plain, old LibreOffice suite. My business is purposefully lean enough to not need fancy software. A few invoices a month and an income book are tools. Taxes are submitted online, and I had to fight my way around to get the signing program work on Linux, haha.