marko bajlovic

Uses

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

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

  • iPad Pro 11" Tablet. The iPad Pro 11" is a powerful tablet featuring Apple's M1 chip, a stunning Liquid Retina display, and advanced capabilities for creativity and productivity; got for free.
    • Apple Pencil offers an intuitive and precise drawing and note-taking experience with features like low latency, tilt sensitivity, and palm rejection, making it effortlessly ready for creative inspiration.
  • iPhone 13 features a sleek design, powerful A15 Bionic chip, improved battery life, and advanced dual-camera system, delivering exceptional performance and photography capabilities.
    • iOS 18
  • 512GB Steam Deck by Valve is a handheld gaming device that allows players to enjoy their PC game library on the go, featuring a custom AMD APU, a vibrant touchscreen display, and versatile control options.
    • 512GB MicroSD
  • Anbernic RG351M is an upgraded Linux game console featuring an aluminum alloy shell, RK3326 CPU, built-in WiFi, and a 3.5-inch IPS screen, supporting over 20 emulators and preloaded with games on a 64GB card.
    • 256GB MicroSD
    • AmberELEC is a Linux distributiopen source firmware developed for the Anbernic RG351P/M/V/MP and RG552.

General Hardware

  • AVLT Single 13"-38" Monitor Arm Desk Mount Display Mount. The adjustable single monitor desk mount supports 13" to 38" screens, features ergonomic height adjustments, and saves desk space while enhancing posture and workspace organization.
  • Dell 452-BCYT D6000 Universal Dock The Dell Universal Dock - D6000 allows convenient connectivity for any laptop with USB-C or USB 3.0, offering universal compatibility with various PC brands and operating systems through DisplayLink technology for easy access to displays and peripherals.
  • Leopold 88 Key Tenkeyless Keyboards FC200RT/KB (2) features excellent build quality, quiet MX Brown switches, and optimal key weight to reduce finger fatigue.
    • Cherry Switch (1)
    • Brown Switch (1)
    • Both Blank Keycaps (both)
  • External USB Seagate 3.0 Hard Drive
    • 1TB
    • 3TB
  • LG 38 Inch UltraGear Nano IPS 144HZ 1ms Curved Monitor The 38” 21:9 Curved WQHD+ Nano IPS Display features a resolution of 3840 x 1600, offers a 1ms response time, supports NVIDIA G-SYNC®, boasts a refresh rate of 144Hz (175Hz overclock), meets VESA Display HDR 400 standards, and includes Sphere Lighting 2.0 for enhanced visual effects.
  • Logitech G502X The G502 X is a lightweight (89 grams) gaming mouse that features innovative LIGHTFORCE hybrid optical-mechanical switches and a HERO 25K sub-micron sensor, continuing the legacy of the G502 series.
  • Logitech SteamCam is a premium webcam that streams and records in 1080p HD at 60 fps, featuring advanced auto-focus, face tracking, and intelligent exposure, optimized for popular live streaming software.
  • Razer Naga Pro (2) is an ergonomic MMO gaming mouse featuring a unique 12-button thumb grid, designed for medium to large hands and suitable for both palm and claw grip styles.
  • Rosewill USB 3.0 4 Port Sharing Switch Box The USB Device Sharing Switch Box allows two PCs to easily switch access among four USB devices via USB 3.0 ports, featuring LED indicators and a convenient PC Select Controller with a long cable.

Audio

  • Airpods Max are premium over-ear headphones that deliver immersive sound quality, active noise cancellation, and a comfortable design, making them ideal for music enthusiasts.
  • Airpods Pro are versatile in-ear headphones featuring active noise cancellation, a customizable fit, and exceptional sound quality, perfect for on-the-go listening.
  • AKG 702 Headphones are open, over-ear studio headphones designed for precision listening, featuring advanced technology for accurate sound reproduction, a comfortable fit, and a professional mini XLR connector for easy cable replacement.
  • Astro A40 TR headset is engineered for marathon gaming, offering pro-level audio fidelity, comfort, and durability while being compatible with any console and adaptable to various gaming environments.
  • FiiO K5 Docking Headphone Amplifier/DAC This DAC/amp E17K features an 11-pin micro USB port that enables exclusive functions like amplification and charging through docking expansion.
  • Homepod Mini is a compact smart speaker that combines high-quality audio performance with Siri integration, allowing users to control smart home devices, play music, and access information with voice commands; got for free.

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 occasionally animate on my PC.

Utility

  • AutoHotKey is a powerful and versatile scripting language for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks, create custom keyboard shortcuts, and enhance productivity through the creation of macros and scripts.
  • Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility This utility compiles essential Windows tasks for streamlining installs, debloating, troubleshooting configurations, and fixing Windows updates, while maintaining a clean and efficient project through selective contributions.
  • Ditto is a clipboard manager for Windows that enhances the standard clipboard by saving every item copied, allowing users to access text, images, HTML, and other formats later.
  • Powertoys by Microsoft is a collection of utilities designed for power users to optimize and enhance their Windows experience for improved productivity.

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 is a fully-loaded, award-winning photo editor available on macOS, Windows, and iPad, offering speed, power, and precision for editing, retouching, and creating multi-layered compositions with a user-friendly interface and numerous time-saving tools.
  • Figma is a top collaborative design tool that enables users to design, prototype, develop, and gather feedback all in one platform.
  • IconJar is a design asset management tool that allows users to organize, search, and access their icon collections efficiently.
  • Inkscape is a powerful and free design tool suitable for illustrators, designers, and anyone needing to create vector imagery, offering flexible drawing tools, broad file format compatibility, and advanced text features.

MacOS: 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 is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.
  • Supermaven The fastest copilot. Supermaven lets you write code 2x faster with AI. Works with VS Code, neovim, Zed, and more.
  • Transmit The gold standard of macOS file transfer apps just drove into the future.
  • VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualization software for x86_64 hardware, including macOS/Arm in version 7.1, designed for use on laptops, desktops, servers, and embedded systems.
  • Visual Studio Code is a lightweight, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft, featuring support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and a rich ecosystem of extensions for various programming languages.
  • Zed Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It's also open source.

MacOS: Media

  • IINA is a modern macOS application designed with a post-Yosemite interface, incorporating advanced technologies such as Force Touch, Touch Bar, and Picture-in-Picture.
  • imageOptim removes unnecessary metadata and compresses images without quality loss, saving disk space and bandwidth.

MacOS: Utility

  • 1Password is a secure password manager that helps users store, generate, and manage their passwords and sensitive information across multiple devices.
  • Dropbox is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration platform that allows users to store, share, and synchronize files across multiple devices.
  • Ice is a versatile menu bar management tool that primarily hides and shows menu bar items while offering a variety of additional features.
  • Little Snitch is a host-based application firewall for macOS that monitors applications and controls their network connections using advanced rules.
  • Mimestream Really fast email. Designed for Gmail.
  • 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.

MacOS: Local LLMs

  • LM Studio Discover, download, and run local LLMs.
    • lmstudio-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF a model trained solely through large-scale reinforcement learning, exhibits impressive reasoning abilities but faces issues like repetition and readability; to improve these, DeepSeek-R1 was developed, achieving performance on par with OpenAI-o1 and leading to the open-source release of both models and their distilled versions, with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B setting new benchmarks in dense model performance.
    • lmstudio-community/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF models are well-suited for a variety of text generation and image understanding tasks, including question answering, summarization, and reasoning.
    • RichardErkhov/NTQAI_-_Nxcode-CQ-7B-orpo-gguf Quanitized version of Nxcode-CQ-7B-orpo is an Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model fine-tune of Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7B on 100k samples of high-quality ranking data. I use this for Python code completion.
    • Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-GGUF is the latest large language model series with six sizes (0.5 to 32 billion parameters), offering significant enhancements in code generation, reasoning, and fixing, while supporting up to 128K tokens, and matching GPT-4o in coding abilities, thus providing a robust foundation for real-world applications.

MacOS: Install Guide

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

  • Install Guide is a guide I wrote to guide one through a fresh installation on a new machine.

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.

Mac OS & Linux

Mac OS & Linux: Command Line

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.
  • lazygit Git's complexity and cumbersome processes, such as interactive rebasing and staging changes, can be incredibly frustrating and counterintuitive for users.
  • mackup mackup Keep your application settings in sync and backed up. 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.

MacOS & Linux: 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.

Mac OS & Linux: Communication

  • Discord Gaming-focused related messaging but honestly, best video, audio, screen sharing application.
    • Vencord Modify and customize the Discord client.

Mac OS & Linux: Media

  • 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
  • MidJourney is an AI-powered platform that generates high-quality images from textual descriptions, enabling users to create visually stunning art and designs effortlessly.
  • 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.

Mac OS & Linux: 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.

Mac OS, Windows, & Linux: Application Customizations

  • startyparty addons The start of it all; the addon.
  • startyparty app 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.

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.

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.
  • Remix Icons Open-source neutral-style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers. All of the icons are free for both personal and commercial use.
  • 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: March 27, 2025

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