What’s this?

This is a list of tools and services I use regularly, both for my work and personal life. Some of these are free, others are one-time purchases or subscription services. Maybe you’ll find them useful too!

I’ve included separate referral links where available, which will usually give both of us a discount or extra free month—see the individual items for details. If you’d like to help me out a bit, feel free to use them!

Art & Creativity

• Adobe Substance 3D suite subscription
  Texturing, assets
• Affinity Suite one-time purchase
  Image editing, vector graphics
• Blender free
  3D modeling, sculpting, rendering
• The Grove one-time purchase
  3D tree generation
• Eagle one-time purchase
  Asset management
• Postybirb free
  Upload art to multiple websites
• PureRef free
  Reference image viewer
• Squoosh free
  Image conversion & compression
• ZenShader’s Stylized Blender Brushes one-time purchase
  Sculpting brushes

IT & Security

• 1Password subscription
  Password manager
• Backblaze subscription
  Online backups — referral link
• Fastmail subscription
  Email & simple web hosting — referral link
• FreeFileSync free
  Offline backups (but be aware of the Windows Defender exclusion it adds on installation)
• Hetzner subscription
  Server hosting
• Multipar free
  Backup integrity protection (better download from GitHub)
• Obsidian free
  Personal wiki, todo list, and time tracker
• omg.lol subscription
  A collection of fun & friendly online tools for nerds — referral link
• YNAB subscription
  Budgeting — referral link

About this website

Kianga’s Spot is hosted on a Hetzner CX11 cloud server running Ubuntu. All the HTML is statically generated using Hugo with a custom theme based on Bootstrap, the quick search is powered by Fuse.js, and the font is Asap.