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🦾 My Digital Arsenal

Curated collection of tools and platforms for productivity • privacy • AI development

bookmarks across categories

🤖AI & Language Models

💎Google Gemini
Modern life practically requires an AI subscription, and mine is Gemini. While other platforms have their niches, the market's a race to the bottom, with even leading LLMs facing commodity economics with venture-scale burn.
gemini.google.com
💡ChatGPT
ChatGPT, particularly with GPT-4o, offers excellent multimodal image editing capabilities, making it a compelling AI subscription for visual tasks. If you have a new iPhone the Siri integration is also helpful.
chatgpt.com
🔀OpenRouter
One API key to tap 300 + models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama …)—perfect for benchmarking or swapping engines without code changes.
openrouter.ai
💡Ollama
The easiest way to get up and running with large language models (LLMs) like Llama, Gemma, and Mistral, allowing you to run them locally on your own machine.
ollama.com
📊Artificial Analysis
Provides comprehensive benchmarks and structured evaluations of various LLMs, offering insights into their performance across different tasks to help users compare models effectively.
artificialanalysis.ai
⚔️LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard
A dynamic, crowdsourced leaderboard where users anonymously compare LLMs by voting on responses, providing real-world performance rankings for a wide array of models.
lmarena.ai/leaderboard

⚡Agents & Coding Tools

🙌OpenHands
A robust, open-source AI agent for highly autonomous coding. Runs securely in-browser or a Docker sandbox, offering extensive tools and hackability for complex development tasks.
all-hands.dev
🔨 AIFixer
Pure-Bash CLI that streams code through any OpenRouter model to auto-fix TODOs & bugs—one-line install, zero deps, stays entirely in your terminal.
github.com/bradflaugher/aifixer
💻SWE-bench
A challenging benchmark for evaluating LLMs on real-world software engineering tasks, requiring models to resolve GitHub issues by generating and applying code patches.
swebench.com

💻Personal and Edge Computing

🖥️System76
Makers of high-quality Linux laptops and desktops. Renowned for their commitment to open-source firmware and powerful hardware.
system76.com
🍎Apple
Known for their unbeatable ARM-based chips (M-series Silicon) revolutionizing solid-state laptops and the iconic iPhone, delivering exceptional performance and power efficiency.
apple.com
🍓Raspberry Pi
The world's most hackable ARM-based single-board computers (SBCs). Ideal for education, DIY projects, IoT, and embedded systems development due to their versatility and community support.
raspberrypi.com
⚙️SiFive
Pioneers in RISC-V based processors and single-board computers. Offering open-source hardware designs, SiFive is at the forefront of the customizable and extensible RISC-V architecture.
sifive.com

☁️Public Clouds

🐘AWS
Amazon Web Services, the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
aws.amazon.com
💪OCI
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ideal for businesses requiring enterprise-grade performance, robust security, and cost optimization for demanding workloads. OCI promotes cloud-agnostic architecture and seamless hybrid cloud integration.
oracle.com
🚀Vultr
Vultr offers high-performance, cost-effective cloud computing with a global network of data centers. It's excellent for businesses needing flexible scalability, bare metal options, and a developer-friendly platform for deploying applications with low latency.
vultr.com
🌐Cloudflare
Leading web infrastructure and security company providing CDN, DDoS protection, DNS services, and edge computing with powerful static pages and serverless Workers.
cloudflare.com
⚡RunPod
Scalable GPU cloud platform for AI, deep learning, and machine learning inference, offering on-demand and serverless GPU access, often at a discount.
runpod.io

📦Code Repositories

🐙GitHub
World’s largest repo host with Actions CI/CD, Discussions, Copilot AI coding, and the planet’s biggest open-source community.
github.com
🏔️Codeberg
Community-run Forgejo instance—EU-hosted, ad-free and privacy-respecting; perfect for libre projects that want GitHub-style workflows without tracking.
codeberg.org

🐳Containerization

⚛️Fedora Atomic Desktops
Immutable desktop operating systems with bleeding-edge software, offering atomic updates, strong rollback capabilities, and excellent container integration.
fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops
🐋Docker
The leading open-source platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in containers. It enables developers to package applications and their dependencies into a standardized unit for software development.
docker.com
🦭Podman
A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux system. It's a direct alternative to Docker, offering rootless operation and enhanced security.
podman.io

📰News & Media

📈WSJ
The WSJ gets down to business and has great Tech coverage. I skip the editorials but love their reporting.
wsj.com
🌍The Economist
If you can only afford one subscription (in time and/or money), then choose the Economist. I've been reading it since college and feel smarter for it.
economist.com
🔔Philly Inquirer
My local newspaper, providing essential coverage of Philadelphia and the surrounding region.
inquirer.com
🦞Lobsters
A community-driven social news site for computing professionals and enthusiasts. It focuses on programming, security, privacy, and open source topics. Its tag-based system helps filter content.
lobste.rs
🌟People Magazine
Because sometimes you just need to indulge in some celebrity news and feel-good stories. It's fun, don't think about it too hard!
people.com
🧅The Onion
America's Finest News Source. For when you need a good laugh and a reminder that not everything is serious.
theonion.com
In an increasingly AI-powered world, reliable and diverse journalism is more important than ever. While AI can help sift through information, human journalists provide the critical context, in-depth investigation, and nuanced perspectives needed to understand complex global and local issues. Supporting quality news sources ensures we have access to informed reporting that holds power accountable and fosters a well-informed public discourse.

🔎Search & Privacy Tools

✨Kagi Search
Premium, ad-free search engine focused on user privacy, customizable results, and AI-powered summarization features.
kagi.com
🕵️SearxNG
A free, open-source metasearch engine that aggregates results from various sources, prioritizing user privacy. Can be self-hosted.
docs.searxng.org
📍Google Maps
The go-to for navigation and local business information. Still has a lock on up-to-date business details and user reviews, making it essential for finding accurate info on local establishments.
maps.google.com

💬Private Messaging & Social

🛡️Proton Mail
Zero-access, end-to-end-encrypted email hosted in privacy-friendly Switzerland—nobody (not even Proton) can read your inbox.
proton.me/mail
🔒Signal
My preferred messenger for end-to-end encrypted private messaging. It offers strong privacy features with messages and calls secured by the Signal Protocol.
signal.org
🎮Discord
My preferred social media type platform for communities and groups. Privacy is less of an issue here, especially with a sufficiently large group where individual data points are less significant.
discord.com
🐘Mastodon
If you must follow the thoughts of someone famous (for me I must follow Yann LeCun), then Mastodon is a great place to do it. As part of the fediverse, it allows you to follow accounts from other compatible platforms, including Threads.
mastodon.social

🗓️Calendar & Reminders

🗓️Proton Calendar
Fully encrypted calendar that keeps event titles, invites, and notes private—pairs seamlessly with Proton Mail for an all-private workspace.
proton.me/calendar
📅Google Calendar
Feature-rich scheduling that works hands-free—say “Hey Google, schedule a meeting at 3” on any Nest display or Assistant device and it’s done.
calendar.google.com
✅Google Tasks
Lightweight to-do lists you can add by voice (“Hey Google, remind me to send the invoice”) and view alongside Calendar on Nest hubs.
tasks.google.com
🍎Apple Reminders
Deeply integrated with Siri—just say “Remind me when I get to the office” and it shows up across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.
icloud.com/reminders/