“Jens Uses…”

This is my /uses page. It represents a light, random, early interpretation of the concept. It doesn’t aim to be “complete.”

In General

• I don’t use products that contain animals or parts of animals. I’m a vegan and an anti-speciesist.
• I don’t use Israeli products and services. Not only do I believe in law and no one being above it, I also condemn colonization, apartheid, and genocide and the supremacist ideology behind such crimes.
• I avoid and move away from US products and services. Any country spying on their allies’ people and threatening to annex their territory is not behaving like a friend, but like a threat.

Hardware

• Machines
  • Apple Mac Mini
  • Apple MacBook Air
  • Lenovo ThinkPad
• Headphones (for work): Bose QuietComfort 35
• Speakers (for work): Focal XS 2.1
• Phone: Google Pixel

Software

• Browser: Vivaldi
• Code editor: PhpStorm (after years of WebStorm after years of IntelliJ IDEA)
• Text editor: BBEdit
• Image editor: GIMP
• AI (main ones)
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Mistral
  • Kimi
  • OpenCode
  • (Ollama)
• Code hosting
  • Codeberg
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
• Code reviews: CodeRabbit
• Ebook readers
  • Kobo
  • Google Play Books
  • Kindle
• Feed reader: Inoreader
• Communication and documentation: Proton
• Messengers
  • Signal
  • Threema
• Navigation
  • Mapy
  • OpenStreetMap

Languages

• Human
  • Fluent
    • German
    • English
  • Okay
    • Spanish
  • Eventually
    • Galician
    • French
• Computer
  • Fluent
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • Markdown 🤓
  • Okay
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
  • You don’t want to know
    • Python
    • Kotlin