This is a list of tools and services I choose to use.

Software

Desktop

• Browser: Opera for primary browsing and developer tools.  Firefox for Flash and Firebug. Chromium for Flash and developer tools.
• Mail: Claws Mail for MUA. It has regexp filtering and searching. Bogofilter for spam reduction. GMail for webmail.
• Text Editor: Diakonos, of course.
• Graphics: The GIMP. My needs are simple, my wallet is thin, so no Photoshop for me.
• Office Suite: OpenOffice.org
• IRC Client: WeeChat
• PDF Reader: Okular
• Audio Editor: Audacity
• Process Monitor: htop
• Virtualization: VirtualBox
• Media Player: VLC for video, mplayer for quick, command-line file playing
• Disc Burning: k3b

Server

• Blogging: I use WordPress for this blog.
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Bookmarking: Selfmarks

Services

• Search: Google Duck Duck Go
• News/RSS Reader: FriendFeed
• Microblogging: FriendFeed
• News/Links: Hacker News, Top Hacker News
• Help: StackOverflow
• Web Analytics: Woopra
• Project Tracker: Pivotal Tracker
• Time Tracker: Freckle FreshBooks
• Invoicing: FreshBooks
• Hosting (VPS): Linode and Webbynode
• Hosting (Shared): Netfirms None
• Domain Registrar: Netfirms
• DNS Management: EveryDNS
• DNS: OpenDNS

Environment

• Operating System: Linux
• Distro: Gentoo
• Desktop: KDE 4
• Window Manager: KDE (kwin)
• Terminal: urxvt Konsole, together with tmux
• Clipboard Manager: Klipper
• Shell: zsh
• Filesystem: reiserfs xfs ext3
• Keyboard Layout: Dvorak
• Mouse Hand: Left

Fonts

• Monospace: Terminus
• Sans Serif: Luxi Sans in Linux, Tahoma in Windows
• Serif: Minion

Programming

• Languages: Ruby is by far my general purpose language of choice, and I use it whenever I can, but I’m also proficient in some other languages, such as: SQL, PHP, Perl, bash, C
• Source Control: git for version control, github for code hosting
• Web Debugger: Firebug Chromium‘s developer tools, and Opera’s Dragonfly
• Paste Sharing: gist and pastie

Libraries & Frameworks

• Web Framework: Ramaze
• ORM: M4DBI
• Javascript: jQuery
• Testing: Bacon
• HTML/XML: Nokogiri
• Source Documentation: YARD
• Static Web Framework: nanoc
• Ruby Environment Management: RVM

References

• HTML: W3C
• CSS: W3C: Properties and Selectors
• Ruby: ruby-doc.org for core and stdlib
• jQuery: api.jquery.com
• Dictionary: Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary