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Capture

Cameras4

  • Sony Alpha a6400

    $1,098.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2021positive about it

    “…and so I've moved on to a little bit nicer camera still a Sony mirrorless camera but an a6400 and I paired that with some pretty inexpensive but very versatile lenses”
    View source at 7:47from July 2021+ 1 more source
  • UniFi G6 Instant

    $209.00cited in 2 videosfirst cited December 2025positive about it

    “I connected a G6 Instant that was already adopted to protect, and I was able to record footage back to my UNVR with the travel router.”
    View source at 5:57from December 2025+ 1 more source
  • Sony a5100

    first cited June 2025

    “And so here you could see it was taken with my sony uh 5100 uh the aperture was f8 shutter speed was 180th 16 millimeter iso 100 on my 16 to 50 millimeter uh lens”
    View source at 29:25from June 2025
  • Wyze Cam

    $44.98first cited December 2025

    “Another thing I travel with is a small Wyze Cam that I use if I step out so I can check on the dogs.”
    View source at 5:45from December 2025

Lenses1

  • Sony 16-50mm lens

    first cited June 2025

    “And so here you could see it was taken with my sony uh 5100 uh the aperture was f8 shutter speed was 180th 16 millimeter iso 100 on my 16 to 50 millimeter uh lens”
    View source at 29:25from June 2025

Camera equipment1

Sound

Microphones2

Light

Lighting2

Editing and post

Editing software2

  • Adobe Photoshop

    first cited July 2021

    “…but I end up using audition Adobe after effects Adobe premiere Adobe illustrator and Adobe Photoshop every time I create a new project”
    View source at 13:05from July 2021
  • Adobe Illustrator

    first cited July 2021

    “…but I end up using audition Adobe after effects Adobe premiere Adobe Illustrator and Adobe photoshop every time I create a new project”
    View source at 13:05from July 2021

Recording software2

  • OBS

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited March 2020positive about it

    “…then I'll have OBS open recording my desktop and then OBS is also recording the audio as well just for a backup audio”
    View source at 10:36from July 2021+ 2 more sources
  • Adobe Audition

    first cited July 2021

    “As I mentioned I use Adobe Audition and I import my audio into there I do a little tweaking a little normalization a little bit of compression”
    View source at 12:24from July 2021

Coding software50

  • Kubernetes

    cited in 29 videosfirst cited April 2020

    “This means applications and infrastructure are version controlled run in ci cd pipelines tested stored in a container registry and then deployed to my Kubernetes infrastructure which up until this point was a traditional push model”
    View source at 0:30from May 2022+ 28 more sources
  • Rancher

    cited in 27 videosfirst cited April 2020positive about it

    “I'll walk through how to set this up with Docker and then I'll show you how to set it up in Rancher. And if you're not familiar with Rancher, Rancher is just an easy way to get Kubernetes, which then gives you containerization.”
    View source at 1:53from January 2021+ 26 more sources
  • GitHub

    cited in 14 videospositive about it

    “I'm going to go with GitHub because I already have GitHub set up and I have two factor auth turned on there”
    View source at 9:31from September 2020+ 13 more sources
  • Docker Compose

    cited in 14 videosfirst cited April 2021positive about it

    “…so today we're going to use Docker Compose to set this up we're using Docker Compose because it's easy and it's repeatable and it allows me to share my configuration with you so that all you have to do is copy and paste”
    View source at 2:31from September 2021+ 13 more sources

AI software13

  • Open WebUI

    cited in 7 videosfirst cited July 2024speaks highly of it

    “This is one of the many things you can do in open web UI and one of the many reasons I'm going to continue using this as an interface for Ollama.”
    View source at 5:22from July 2024+ 6 more sources
  • vLLM

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited May 2026speaks highly of it

    “I'm using VLLM to host most of the models that I'm running on this machine. If you're using OLAMA or something else and want better performance, I highly recommend checking it out and it's pretty easy to spin up in Docker.”
    View source at 4:31from October 2026+ 4 more sources
  • n8n

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited July 2025speaks highly of it

    “In this guide, I'll show you how to self-host n8n on a Linux box using Docker Compose.”
    View source at 0:48from July 2025+ 3 more sources
  • Ollama

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited July 2024positive about it

    “On this machine, if you see up here, my 192.168.10.111 on 8080, I actually have OpenWebUI, and then I have Ollama running as well as an API that's powering OpenWebUI.”
    View source at 36:57from July 2025+ 3 more sources

Productivity software18

  • Discord

    cited in 13 videos

    “And so in one of my personal private Discord servers, I have this channel right here that I created called Test Code.”
    View source at 15:33from July 2025+ 12 more sources
  • Ubuntu

    cited in 6 videosfirst cited March 2020positive about it

    “I'm gonna choose Ubuntu because that's what I'm most familiar with and it has a lot of good support”
    View source at 3:17from March 2020+ 5 more sources
  • Windows

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited February 2021

    “…and now we're back into Windows and everything's booting fine so congratulations we now have a dual boot system”
    View source at 9:29from February 2021+ 3 more sources
  • F.Lux

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited July 2022speaks highly of it

    “I use Flux on my other clusters and it keeps everything consistent, reproducible, and version controlled.”
    View source at 6:21from November 2025+ 2 more sources

Creator tools4

  • StreamElements

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2020has reservations

    “Looks like twitch is having a problem with their services too either twitch or stream elements because it just looked like I don't know 50 people followed me all at once which I doubt is true”
    View source at 9:47from August 2020+ 1 more source
  • Jekyll

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited May 2022speaks highly of it

    “Since so many of you have asked how I built my documentation site I've decided to share how I built my site and how you can create your own my docs site and all of its content is open source and it's using an open source site generator named Jekyll made by github”
    View source at 1:27from May 2022+ 1 more source
  • LittleLink

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2021speaks highly of it

    “…so this is all based on the work by little link so I'm gonna leave a little link to little link in the description so you can go on to that repo and start because without this I wouldn't have been inspired enough to build the docker container”
    View source at 13:09from August 2021+ 1 more source
  • Immich

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited June 2025speaks highly of it

    “We covered a ton today on Immich, and hopefully you get it up and running, and hopefully you see how awesome this application is.”
    View source at 43:04from June 2025+ 1 more source

Platforms

Hosting platforms4

  • Twitch

    cited in 19 videos

    “…so the first thing we're gonna do is go out to the Twitch developer site once we're at the Twitch developer site you'll probably need to sign up once you do let's go into our console”
    View source at 1:15from May 2020+ 18 more sources
  • Cloudflare

    cited in 7 videosfirst cited August 2020speaks highly of it

    “…and you can see some of my stats here you can see lots of requests are being routed through Cloudflare you can see the total bandwidth over time you can see how many unique visitors visited”
    View source at 11:26from January 2022+ 6 more sources
  • GitHub Container Registry

    first cited August 2021

    “…and do note that this is not hosted in docker hub so if you use this image it's actually coming from GitHub's Container Registry so be sure you add this ghcr.io in front of the image name”
    View source at 4:33from August 2021
  • Pterodactyl

    first cited April 2022speaks highly of it

    “And that's when I found Pterodactyl. Pterodactyl is a free and open- source game management panel that is built on a modern stack.”
    View source at 0:28from April 2022

Ecommerce platforms1

Membership platforms1

  • Patreon

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited May 2024

    “Money that you helped me with by becoming a channel member on YouTube, supporting me on Patreon and GitHub, and even purchasing merch from my newly launched merch shop.”
    View source at 1:07from May 2024+ 1 more source

Desk

Computers31

  • Raspberry Pi

    $200.00cited in 7 videosfirst cited February 2021speaks highly of it

    “I have a few in my environment right now one used to run pie hole but now I've repurposed it to the led panel back there and another a Pi zero is still in my environment doing a pretty critical task”
    View source at 5:03from February 2021+ 6 more sources
  • ZimaBoard

    $339.00cited in 4 videosfirst cited July 2023speaks highly of it

    “…windows and Linux run fine on azima board and I've tested it with Windows 10 Ubuntu desktop Ubuntu server and I'm sure many other distributions will run on this board because at the end of the day it's an x86 Intel based system”
    View source at 8:14from July 2023+ 3 more sources
  • ASUS Ascent GX10

    $5,999.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited May 2026mixed views on it

    “I have two ASUS GX10s here, and together they give me a 256 gigabyte local AI cluster on my desk.”
    View source at 0:18from May 2026+ 2 more sources
  • Minisforum MS-A1

    cited in 3 videosfirst cited November 2024

    “This is ZimaCube Pro, MS-A1, Beelink EQ-13, 11th Gen, Intel NUC, ZimaBoard, PiKVM, and this is Raspberry Pi for Jeff Geerling. And I have all of these devices connected to these two switches.”
    View source at 3:52from January 2025+ 2 more sources

Monitors6

Peripherals17

  • PiKVM

    cited in 6 videosfirst cited April 2023positive about it

    “…well if you remember from a previous video I picked up a p KVM and was able to attach multiple devices to it us using an HDMI switch this current switch lets me connect up to four devices but I'm going to try to expand it to eight later on”
    View source at 2:21from April 2023+ 5 more sources
  • Monoprice SlimRun Cat6A Ethernet Patch Cables

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2022speaks highly of it

    “After this it was time to connect all of those Cables I still love these slim ones”
    View source at 3:16from July 2022+ 1 more source
  • JetKVM

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited March 2025speaks highly of it

    “For now, these JetKVMs are staying in my rack and I'm excited to see how well they hold up over time. I plan to keep contributing code to the project as I can and overall, I have to say that this device is a pretty easy recommendation for me.”
    View source at 10:36from March 2025+ 1 more source
  • Slim Cat6a Ethernet Patch Cables

    $11.99cited in 2 videosfirst cited November 2025positive about it

    “The cabling is all slim network cables to keep things neat, and the entire setup connects over 5G because we all know how tricky it can be to work through high latency, CG-NAT heavy networks.”
    View source at 2:43from November 2025+ 1 more source

Storage25

  • TrueNAS

    cited in 11 videosfirst cited November 2020positive about it

    “So the starting point here is my main TrueNAS system at home. This thing holds roughly 30 terabytes of data, but more importantly, it's not just a pile of files.”
    View source at 1:59from April 2026+ 10 more sources
  • TrueNAS Scale

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited April 2023positive about it

    “This Nas could be any open source Nas but I chose to go with TrueNAS Scale I went with TrueNAS Scale because well it's true nans and I wanted scale because I wanted a Linux based operating system that plays better with proxmox”
    View source at 6:11from April 2023+ 4 more sources
  • Samsung SSD 870 EVO SATA III 1TB

    $332.38cited in 3 videosfirst cited April 2023

    “Along with that, I added four Samsung consumer SSDs using 3D printed 2.5 to 3.5 inch caddies so they could mount into the service backplane.”
    View source at 8:30from April 2025+ 2 more sources
  • ZimaCube Pro

    $1,099.00cited in 3 videosfirst cited December 2024

    “I have a ZimaCube Pro that I have for testing. I put in six 8TB drives, put an NVMe drive in there and then it already had an NVMe drive in there along with 64 gigs of RAM and a 12th gen Intel Core i5.”
    View source at 1:57from December 2024+ 2 more sources

Office furniture7

Everything else

Other109

  • Docker

    cited in 51 videosfirst cited April 2020

    “…you can see here that we're using the tag of latest and generally this is how I use most docker images when I spin up my containers but for Rancher I'm gonna pin it to a specific version just so I know exactly what version is being used in the case that I need to restore it”
    View source at 9:05from June 2020+ 50 more sources
  • Proxmox

    cited in 20 videosfirst cited March 2020speaks highly of it

    “…so I set out to do that years ago and I've been virtualizing my router ever since and so today we're gonna walk through how to bridge realize your own home router using proxmox and pfsense”
    View source at 1:22from May 2020+ 19 more sources
  • Grafana

    cited in 15 videosfirst cited April 2020speaks highly of it

    “…and so congratulations we have Grafana alert manager and prometheus already set up and if we look at Grafana it's already starting to collect metrics on our cluster”
    View source at 4:11from April 2021+ 14 more sources
  • Prometheus

    cited in 15 videosfirst cited April 2021positive about it

    “Starting with Prometheus, this is where all of our metrics are stored. So I'm mounting a configuration directory, and I'm mounting a data directory so metrics persist across restarts.”
    View source at 2:03from December 2025+ 14 more sources

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