Uses

My workspace at home. Shot at home on 8 Nov 2025.

Inspired by many pages listed on uses.tech, I decided to build my own /uses page. I don’t expect to include every detail here, but it should be enough to spotlight the things I touch on a regular basis. I doubt it will attract much attention, but it was fun anyway. 😼

Table of Contents

πŸ’Ž Devices & Envs

Linux Distros

  • An ECS instance with e.xlarge.2 running openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 on eSurfing Cloud. It’s still a VM virtualised using KVM, QEMU, libvirt, etc.
  • An AArch64 VM running Fedora Workstation 44 on Parallels Desktop.
  • A LoongArch64 VM running Kylin Server V10 SP3 on UTM.
  • A cloud PC for work running Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 on CTyun Laptop.
  • Several Docker containers for work running CTyunOS V2.0 2.0.1 on my MBP. A base image is made public on Docker Hub. It may look quite large because I have not spent much time optimising it.

OriginOS 6

A vivo iQOO 15 with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage. The OS is built on Android 16. I use this phone as a spare in place of a HUAWEI Pura 70 running HarmonyOS 6, where Android apps cannot run because there is no AOSP core unless a HarmonyOS-native app with container-based features1 is installed.

Windows 11 25H2

iOS 26

An iPhone 17 Pro with 512GB storage.

iPadOS 26

An 11-inch iPad Pro with an Apple M4 chip, 512GB storage, an Apple Pencil Pro with no engraving, and a Magic Keyboard.

There’s a self-deprecating joke.

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It means: buy it for productivity, then end up watching iQIYI afterwards. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

macOS Tahoe

A 16-inch MacBook Pro with an Apple M2 Max chip, 64GB memory, and 1TB SSD storage. It cost a lot of money. But who cares? As long as I love it, it’s worth it. πŸ€“

watchOS 26

An Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS, 45mm).

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Dev

  • I now mainly use the ChatGPT app, both for chatting on the go and for AI-assisted programming with Codex. At work, I also use Claude Desktop and Claude Code CLI, along with an internal CLI based on OpenCode that uses third-party models provided by my company. I stopped using GitHub Copilot after changes to its billing model.

  • Visual Studio Code has been my primary editor for many years.

    • I know VS Code is built on top of Electron. I used this framework to develop a cross-platform desktop app once. Tbh, it was not bad, but I never found a simple way to make it “lightweight” in the time I had. Every framework has trade-offs, right?
    • I explored Sublime Text and Zed. They were gorgeous. Perhaps I may switch to another editor one day? πŸ€”

  • I use the following IDEs for their advanced or convenient features, or sometimes because they are part of collaborative work environment settings on relatively large codebases.

  • To format code on save, Prettier is my choice for most cases. I would mention Black when it comes to a Python project.

  • I currently use cmux most often on macOS. I still recommend WindTerm, although I have mostly abandoned it myself. I use Xterminal from time to time, while Xshell is still installed on Windows for accessing work environments.

  • Apifox is an API platform I use for debugging and some QA testing on DEV, SIT, and UAT. Its official site promotes the platform as Apifox = Postman + Swagger + Mock + JMeter. Well, I will leave that without comment. It’s generally good for teamwork.

  • Any other stuff? So much, but this might be worth mentioning. Given the limited free time I can currently spend on my repos, my personal blog and portfolio would be almost impossible without Cloudflare, Hugo, HugoBlox Kit, Vercel, and giscus. ❀️

    Tip

    I used to build this site myself with Tailwind CSS, Vite, and Vue.js. Unfortunately, I abandoned that approach and archived the related repo.

πŸš€ Productivity

  • Besides the AI tools mentioned in the Dev section, I sometimes use DeepSeek, Doubao, Qwen, and Yuanbao. AI agents are reshaping the way we work and live. I have also tried Gemini, Grok, and Kimi, among others, and found some of them surprisingly capable.
  • Microsoft Edge and Safari.
  • Notion for note-taking and task management (more like a replacement for to-do list apps? πŸ€ͺ).
  • Tencent Docs. I would highlight its Smart Canvas and Smart Sheet despite the fact that it’s usually an alternative for me to share online docs with my colleagues.
  • Typora.
  • WPS.
  • draw.io.

🚦Wheels & Drives

  • My go-to XDS mountain bike for trails, weekend escapes, or just clearing my head while pedalling.

    My XDS mountain bike.

  • 2025 ARCFOX aT5 630 Divine Version: my electric ride for daily commuting and road trips.

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    Never mind. It’s just a pun. πŸ˜›

    My ARCFOX aT5.

πŸ₯‘ Other Gear

  1. E.g., ε“ζ˜“ι€š. ↩︎

  2. ReSharper C++ and Rider are excluded. ↩︎