Favorite software

Emacs

A text editor… but also way more.

Org-mode

The most versatile plain-text way to keep notes, author documents, and organize information.

Jujutsu

A VCS with a better (Mercurial-like) paradigm

Zellij

A batteries-included Tmux

Fish

A batteries-included, low-setup shell

Guix

A less-supported Nix but in Scheme and with better documentation and (in my opinion) more coherent and considerate design decisions

SOPS Guix

Integrate SOPS to securely use secrets in Guix

Notmuch (and notmuch.el)

A dead-simple yet flexible UX for wrangling emails.

Honorable mentions §

Syncthing

Sync files across devices

Zoxide

A cd with memory

Astro

A pain-free web “framework” whose specialty is generating small bundles and static pages; used to build this site

Restic

A dead-simple, fast, versatile, and—above all—reliable backup program.