What I use
The tools behind the work, the study and the photographs. Kept short and honest: if it is on this list, I use it.
Work: network engineering
- Windows Server / Active Directory
- Users, groups, GPOs and the occasional replication mystery.
- PowerShell
- AD automation, reporting, and backup verification scripts.
- SAN storage
- [Add: vendor and model of the SAN you administer]
- Backup platform
- [Add: backup software and the target]
- Switching and routing
- [Add: switch/firewall vendor and models at work]
Home lab and study
- Laptop
- [Add: model, CPU, RAM]
- Lab switch
- [Add: home lab switch model]
- Hypervisor
- [Add: Proxmox / Hyper-V / VMware]
- Wireshark
- Packet captures for the blog and for figuring out what a device is actually doing.
- Packet Tracer / GNS3
- [Add: which one you use for CCNA study]
Photography
- Sony A7 III
- Primary body.
- Second body
- [Add: backup body model]
- Lenses
- [Add: the two or three lenses you shoot most]
- Lighting
- [Add: flash / strobe and modifiers]
- Editing
- [Add: Lightroom / Capture One and export presets]
- Delivery
- Pixieset galleries, password-protected and downloadable, with a separate print-ready TIFF folder.
This site
- Next.js + React
- App Router, React Compiler, Turbopack.
- Sanity
- Content, live preview, and the Studio at /studio.
- Tailwind CSS
- Dark palette, Lora + Inter + IBM Plex Mono.
- Vercel
- Hosting and Speed Insights.
- Airtable + Resend
- Booking CRM and transactional email for photography clients.