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Do you have a "uses" page?

We all are particular about the software and hardware we use. Something common that came about out of all this is tech folks that blog, stream and/or give talks started getting a lot of questions like, what font do you use? What theme is that? What kind of monitor etc.

So tech folk that have web sites started creating a "uses" page. If you have a uses page, share it in the comments and consider adding it to @wesbos' awesome project uses.tech.

If you don't have one, here my uses page as an example of one.

Might as well share a workstation photo too while you're at it.

Go!

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Vincent Dedo

I was surprised to see that you list your hardware and office equipment, I didn't think a "uses" would cover that much.

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I guess it depends on the “uses“ page. I modelled mine after some I saw initially like @wesbos ’ and @kentcdodds ‘s “uses” pages, e.g. kentcdodds.com/uses

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Vicente G. Reyes

Cool! So now i can add a nownownow and a uses page on my portfolio. Thanks!

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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weisk

Oh I also use amphetamine XD It prevents "My Mac" from going to sleep... yeah really effective.....

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Chris Otto

I have a uses page not only for other's benefit but for mine. I list out all the specs for the desktop I built and peripherals so I don't need to filtering through my order histories to find which RAM I bought and all that good stuff. I should definitely go back through and add IDEs, extensions and all those other goodies.

chrisotto.dev/uses/

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Gift Egwuenu • Edited

I like the trend and also found some amazing tools checking out uses.tech I added one to my website.

giftegwuenu.com/uses

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Shannon Crabill

I've been thinking about adding one.

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Molly Struve (she/her)

I had no idea that was a thing! So neat!

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Ben Halpern

DEV/Forem profiles should have pages in addition to posts. Like tabs on the profile. 🤔

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Nick Taylor

🌱

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Martin Bavio • Edited

Anybody that wants to be added to uses.tech needs to send a PR to this repo updating this file in particular.

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Dzhavat Ushev

I didn't know about such pages. I'll definitely add something similar to my blog. :)

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Nick Taylor

Geordi Laforge in a sweater saying “No problem”

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Dzhavat Ushev

Well, just found some time last night and added the page to my blog. Now I got one as well 😋

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Nick Taylor

Nice!

Nice