$ ls -la /uses

What I use day to day. Inspired by uses.tech. Everything below is what's actually on my machine right now, not what I aspirationally wish was on my machine.

hardware

• primary laptop14-inch MacBook Pro (M4) — daily driver, work and personal
• monitors2× LG 32UR500K-B — 32" 4K, dual external setup
• keyboardRK Royal Kludge RK100 — mechanical, 96% layout
• mouseLogitech MX Master 4 — at the desk; MacBook trackpad on the go
• audioGoogle Pixel Buds Pro 2 — ANC, all-day comfort, integrates fine with macOS for calls

editor & terminal

• editorVS Code — with Azure Tools, Bicep, Python, PowerShell, GitHub Pull Requests extensions
• terminalmacOS Terminal — built-in, no fluff, gets out of the way
• shellzsh — default macOS
• fontJetBrains Mono — same as on this site
• browserFirefox — privacy-first daily driver, container tabs for work/personal separation

cloud & ops

• primary cloudMicrosoft Azure — hundreds of subscriptions worth of muscle memory
• also fluent inAWS & GCP — from a multi-year data center migration
• IaCBicep — current focus, ARM, Terraform, PowerShell DSC
• CI/CDAzure DevOps Services, GitHub Actions
• observabilityDynatrace, Azure Monitor, Application Insights
• identityEntra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy

languages & scripting

• primaryPowerShell — ops automation, Azure SDKs
• application codePython — Azure Functions, scripts
• shell scriptingBash — glue and CI snippets
• configYAML — GitHub Actions, Bicep params, K8s manifests

cli tools i actually live in

• azAzure CLI — sometimes more than I'd like to admit
• ghGitHub CLI — PRs, runs, secrets without leaving the terminal
• gitobviously — signed commits via SSH
• funcAzure Functions Core Tools — local function dev
• jqjq — JSON wrangling
• curl + digclassics that never let me down

home lab & network

• server boxHP Elite Mini 600 G9 — Intel Core i7-13700T, 96 GB RAM, 92 TB storage (external enclosure)
• server OSUbuntu Server — headless, Docker for everything
• containersPlex (media), Immich (photo storage), Tailscale (zero-trust remote access without opening ports)
• router (built it)pfSense on a Lenovo M720q with an Intel X540-T2 NIC — Suricata for IDS/IPS at line rate, pfBlockerNG for DNS- and IP-level blocking, WireGuard for VPN. Handles a gigabit symmetric link with no slowdown.

this site

• hostingAzure Static Web Apps — free tier
• APIPython Azure Function — V2 model
• databaseAzure Cosmos DB — serverless
• domainrlwilliamson.dev via Namecheap
• CI/CDGitHub Actions — pytest-gated deploys
• sourcegithub.com/rlwilliamson-dev/azure-resume

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