marko bajlovic

Uses

Based on uses.tech, this page is a showcase of my favorite tools, software, hardware and other recommended resources.

Welcome; this page is largely an index of hardware, then software, and general recommendations and what I use professionally (and personally).

Computers

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro

Razer Blade 15

  • New Blade 15 - Black
  • Windows 11 Home – 64 bit (yuck)
  • 1.8GHz 14-core Intel i7-12800H processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, with 24MB of Cache
  • 16 GB DDR5 4800MHz dual-channel memory
  • 1TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4)
  • 15.6" QHD 240Hz, 100% DCI-P3, G-Sync, 2.5ms, individually factory calibrated
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 3060 (6GB GDDR6 VRAM)

Custom Built PC

Others

Hardware

  • Leopold 88 Key Tenkeyless Keyboards (2)
    • Cherry Switch (1)
    • Brown Switch (1)
    • Both Blank Keycaps (both)
  • Razer Naga Pro (2) With its unique 12-button thumb grid and ergonomic design, the Razer Naga provides MMO gamers the control they need for high-level raiding and PvP. Ideal for medium to large hand sizes and users who favor a palm or claw grip, choose the perfect model that adapts to all your needs.
  • Logitech G502X G502 X is the latest addition to the legendary G502 lineage. Redesigned to achieve an impressive weight reduction down to 89 grams. Featuring our first-ever LIGHTFORCE hybrid optical-mechanical switches and HERO 25K sub-micron sensor.
  • Dell 452-BCYT D6000 Universal Dock Conveniently connect any laptop equipped with USB-C or USB3.0 with the Dell Universal Dock - D6000. Enjoy universal compatibility with a wide range of PC brands and operating systems supported by DisplayLink technology. Whether you're at your desk or in a shared workspace, you can easily connect to displays, a mouse, keyboard and audio devices from your compatible system of choice.
  • LG 38 Inch UltraGear Nano IPS 144HZ 1ms Curved Monitor Display
  • AVLT Single 13"-38" Monitor Arm Desk Mount Display Mount
  • External USB Seagate 3.0 Hard Drive
    • 1TB
    • 3TB
  • Logitech SteamCam The Logitech StreamCam premium webcam streams and records in full 1080p HD resolution at 60 fps, delivering professional-quality results for YouTube videos and Twitch streaming. Create sharp, natural video with smooth motion and crisp details thanks to a premium glass lens and smart auto-focus system. Advanced features like automatic face tracking always keeps you front and center, even if you move around, while intelligent exposure ensures you look your best in any lighting. StreamCam is optimized for popular live streaming software like Open Broadcaster Software (OBS), XSplit and Streamlabs OBS so you can instantly stream to all your favorite platforms.

Audio

Miscellaneous

Software

Windows

The following is a short list, broken up by category, of all the graphic interface applications on my PC. I really only game and work on 3D graphics and animations on my PC.

Utility

  • AutoHotKey Keybinds and more.
  • Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility This utility is a compilation of Windows tasks I perform on each Windows system I use. It is meant to streamline installs, debloat with tweaks, troubleshoot with config, and fix Windows updates. I am extremely picky about any contributions to keep this project clean and efficient.
  • Ditto Clipboard manager.
  • Powertoys Useful features like window snapping.

Mac OS

The following is a detailed list, broken up by category, of all the graphic interface applications on my Mac OS machine.

  • Affinity Photo As the only fully-loaded photo editor integrated across macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo is the first choice of millions of creative and photography professionals around the world. With incredible speed, power and precision, the award-winning image editing software has everything you need to edit and retouch photos, create multi-layered compositions, beautiful raster paintings and so much more. It’s also equipped with hundreds of timesaving tools and a completely redesigned UI to make your image editing experience more seamless than ever.
  • Figma Figma is the leading collaborative design tool for building meaningful products. Seamlessly design, prototype, develop, and collect feedback in a single platform.
  • IconJar The go-to app for managing your icon library.
  • Inkscape Vector graphics editor.

Development

  • FireCamp Developer-first OpenSource API DevTool, Postman/Insomnia alternative.
  • Homebrew Cask Install and maintain apps through the command line.
  • kitty The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.
  • Obsidian Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.
  • Transmit The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps just drove into the future.
  • VirtualBox Virtual Machines.
  • Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
    • Supermaven The fastest copilot. Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI.
  • Zed Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source.
    • Supermaven The fastest copilot. Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI.

Media

Web

  • Unduck DuckDuckGo's bang redirects are too slow. Add the following URL as a custom search engine to your browser. Enables all of DuckDuckGo's bangs.
  • ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependencies on Google web services.
  • Zen Browser Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features. We care about your experience, not your data. Built on Firefox's engine.

Utility

  • 1Password Password manager. I don't use the electron version 8 app though.
  • Dropbox Dropbox is a one place to keep your files synced across all your devices.
  • Ice Ice is a powerful menu bar management tool. While its primary function is hiding and showing menu bar items, it aims to cover a wide variety of additional features to make it one of the most versatile menu bar tools available.
  • Little Snitch is a host-based application firewall for macOS. It can be used to monitor applications, preventing or permitting them to connect to attached networks through advanced rules.
  • LM Studio Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
  • Raycast A collection of powerful productivity tools all within an extendable launcher. Fast, ergonomic and reliable.
  • Unarchiver The Unarchiver is the only app you need to open RAR on Mac. It’s times more powerful than the native macOS utility and supports infinitely more archive formats.

Communication

  • Discord Gaming-focused related messaging but honestly, best video, audio, screen sharing application.
    • Vencord The cutest Discord client mod.
  • Mimestream Really fast email. Designed for Gmail.

Linux Software

I didn't include everything as many applications I use on Mac OS, I also use on Linux.

  • Dolphin is a lightweight file manager.
  • KDE plasma Desktop.
  • konsole Terminal Emulator.
  • krunner is a quick launcher.
  • kwin The reliable and flexible window manager for KDE Plasma.
  • krohnkite A dynamic tiling extension for KWin.

Command Line (Mac OS && Linux)

These are command lines tools that I largely use on both Linux and Mac OS.

  • bat Syntax highlighting in terminal output.
  • btop A monitor of resources
  • brew Install things the correct way on Mac OS.
  • eza A modern, maintained replacement for ls.
  • fd A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’.
  • ffmpeg A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
  • fzf A command-line fuzzy finder.
  • gifsicle Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations.
  • httpie is a command line HTTP client that will make you smile.
  • jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
  • mackup mackup Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux). Dotfile manager.
  • mdcat cat, but for Markdown.
  • mpv video player for command line.
  • ncdu Check disk usage with NCurses.
  • neovim Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability.
  • nvm Version manager for node.js.
  • ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern.
  • tig Text-mode interface for git.
  • vim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text.
  • yabai A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
  • yt-dlp yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.
  • z Tracks your most used directories.
  • zsh Terminal shell.

Hosting & Registrars

  • Digital Ocean Great hosting for great prices.
  • Name.com DNS && domain Registrar.
  • Netlify Quick and easy hosting.
  • Surge.sh Static web publishing for Front-End Developers.
  • Vercel Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Audio & Video

I listen to a lot of music and podcasts, so I have a few apps I use to manage and listen to them. I may rotate these out over time.

  • cmus Small, fast and powerful console music player.
  • cmusfm Last.fm standalone scrobbler for the cmus music player.
  • Last.fm Been tracking my listens since 2008
  • YouTube Music With a YouTube Music Premium plan, Background Play is on by default on the YouTube Music app. This means if you're listening to music or watching a music video and you close your screen or exit the app, your music will keep playing in the background until you pause it.

DotFiles & Customizations

Public dotfiles I maintain for various applications and systems. I've since moved to using a dotfiles manager to handle version control for all my configurations, but I'll leave the links for reference.

Application Customizations

  • startyparty addon The start of it all; the addon.
  • startyparty The start of it all. startyparty is a dynamic start page extension for your browser, incorporating the latest articles, media, tech, games, features and content.

Install Guide

This is a fairly thorough guide I maintain for setting up new Mac OS based computers.

This Site's Dev Stack

  • Blue Sky Flutter Icon an animated icon for your Bluesky profile link by Phil Hawksworth.
  • ESLint ESLint statically analyzes your code to quickly find problems. ESLint is built into most text editors and you can run ESLint as part of your continuous integration pipeline.
  • Hack Nerd Font Hack is a font specifically designed for source code.
  • Manrope Font Manrope Manrope is an open-source modern sans-serif font family, designed by Mikhail Sharanda in 2018. In 2019, Mirko Velimirovic worked with Mikhail Sharanda to convert Manrope into a variable font.
  • MDX MDX is Markdown for the component era. It lets you write JSX embedded inside Markdown.
  • NextJS Next.js is a React framework from Vercel that makes it easy to build server-side rendered React applications.
  • React A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
  • Sass Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world.
  • Remark markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective.
  • Tailwind CSS Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.
  • Typescript TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
  • Vercel Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Last updated: February 28, 2025

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