Tools I use and like

Photography

Canon EOS 5D with prime lenses: Sigma 1.4 35mm, Sigma 1.4 50mm, Sigma 1.8 85mm, Canon 2.0 135mm
iPhone 13

Darktable. I used to work with Lightroom many years ago, but then they switched to a subscription model. Darktable is a bit different, but at least as powerful, free, and more than good enough.
GeoTag. A free tool to add location metadata to pictures, also batch processing.
PhotoSweeper. To quickly find duplicate pictures and auto-remove the lesser of the copies.

Maccy.app – a clipboard manager, so you can have multiple things in the clipboard. Often useful when building prompts, or moving text snippets around.
Magnet.app – a window manager, which allows for easy setup of multiple windows together on a big screen.
Bolt AI – like a chatGPT client, but it allows any model to be used, even those running locally. Save prompts. Keep a history of your chats. And more.

Astro — the static site generator this blog is rebuilt on: no backend, no comment server, webmentions fetched at build time. → Web 2.0 with 2026 tech
VS Code — where the work happens. → AI: my private army of interns, Best practices for using GitHub Copilots
GitHub Copilot — the AI pairing habit, for better and worse. → Best practices for using GitHub Copilots, AI: my private army of interns, Generating tango images, part 3

Friendica — self-run at charlemos.club; where I actually read mentions and replies. → One small move, one ask, Tangoverse: connecting pages, groups with RSS, An alternative to Facebook
Mastodon — account at masto.ai, plus the general tangoverse ecosystem. → An alternative to Facebook, Tangoverse: how to get started
WordPress — the previous home, 2007–2026. Still referenced for the transition machinery (Friends plugin federation). → One small move, one ask