Tools
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 links for details. If you’d like to help me out a bit, feel free to use them by clicking the referral badges.
Art & Creativity
- Blender — 3D modeling, sculpting, rendering free
- Adobe Substance 3D suite — texturing, assets subscription
- The Grove — 3D tree generation one-time purchase
- ZenShader’s Stylized Blender Brushes — sculpting brushes one-time purchase
- Affinity Suite — image editing, vector graphics one-time purchase
- Snowtrack — version control for creative projects one-time purchase
- Eagle — asset management one-time purchase
- PureRef — reference image viewer free
- Squoosh — image conversion & compression free
IT & Security
- 1Password — password manager subscription
- Backblaze — online backups subscription referral
- Fastmail — email & simple web hosting subscription referral
- Hetzner — server hosting subscription 1
- FreeFileSync — offline backups free 2
- Multipar — backup integrity protection free 3
- Notion — personal wiki & project management free
- Clockify — time tracking free
- YNAB — budgeting subscription referral
This website 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 Fira Sans. ↩︎
If you use Windows Defender, be aware that FreeFileSync adds its own program folder to the scan exclusion list during installation. I don’t think the software is malicious but still consider this poor judgment by the developer. Luckily it’s easy to fix via the regular Defender UI. ↩︎
Multipar creates recovery files that I store along with my regular backups. They can be used to verify and repair data if it gets corrupted on disk. See Parchive for some technical details! ↩︎