Uses

"How did you make all of [motions around] this? What tools do you use?"

I'm a woman of my word — most of the tools I use are (you guessed it!) free and/or open-source!

Website + Branding

This website was wireframed on pen and paper, prototyped using Penpot and Lunacy, and actually built using Publii, a Static Site CMS. I'm using Publii's "Technews" theme (previously: "ProDocs Knowledge Base") with a lot (!) of modifications. VS Codium is my IDE (integrated development environment) of choice to customize my site's theme. The fonts used are Syne and Work Sans (self-hosted).

The site's comments are served using a self-hosted version of Waline. Most videos are hosted on PeerTube or YouTube. My website analytics are done through Umami, Counter, and Swetrix, which are all privacy-friendly and (claim to be) GDPR-compliant. For my newsletter, I use a self-hosted version of Listmonk.

Video Tutorials + Content Creation

• Recording my desktop: Streamlabs OBS, Vokoscreen, or ShareX
• Showing my hotkeys on screen: Carnac (bfritscher's fork) and/or Keyviz
• Mirroring my phone on my computer: scrcpy
• Video editing: Kdenlive
• Generating captions: Kdenlive or YouTube Studio
• Graphics: I use a combination of Inkscape, Krita, Glimpse Image Editor, Canva, and Penpot — depending on what mood I'm in.
• Prototyping a website: Penpot and Lunacy.

Equipment-wise:

• Refurbished laptop
• Second-hand DSLR camera
• Second-hand Android cellphone
• Used tripod
• Refurbished condenser microphone
• Cheap lights
• Stereo lavaliere microphone (this one was brand new 😅)