👋🏼 Hi I'm Tai Zhou

• 👨🏻‍🎓 Studying Astrophysics 🔭
• 🧐 Webpage version of astrolator in progress (mkdir finished).

Tools I use 🔍

Hardware

• MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2019, Intel i5)
• Windows Desktop
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+

Life

• Home Assistant: 🏡 Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
  • Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
• Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System.

Fonts

• Source Han Sans: Source Han Sans is a set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts.
• Source Han Serif: Source Han Serif is a set of OpenType/CFF Pan-CJK fonts.
• Cascadia Code: This is a fun, new monospaced font that includes programming ligatures and is designed to enhance the modern look and feel of the Windows Terminal.

System

• Tampermonkey: The most popular userscript manager, with over 10 million users.
• aria2: aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.
  • Motrix: A full-featured download manager.

macOS

• Homebrew: 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux).
• Raycast: Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much more.
• Stats: macOS system monitor in your menu bar.
• LinearMouse: The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.
• MonitorControl: 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
• IINA: The modern video player for macOS.

Windows

• PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.

Academy

• Zotero: Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
• MacTeX: TeX Live is intended to be a straightforward way to get up and running with the TeX document production system.
  • TeX Live Utility: TeX Live Utility, a Mac OS GUI for the TeX Live Manager.

Programming

VS Code: Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere.

• Doxygen Documentation Generator: Generate doxygen documentation from source code in VS Code.
• LaTeX Workshop: Boost LaTeX typesetting efficiency with preview, compile, autocomplete, colorize, and more.
• Markdown All in One: Markdown All in One.
• Todo Tree: Use ripgrep to find TODO tags and display the results in a tree view.

C/C++

• CMake: CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system generator.
• GSL: The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers.
• Doxygen: Generate documentation from source code.

Python

• NumPy: The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• plotly.py: The interactive graphing library for Python (includes Plotly Express) ✨
• matplotlib: Plotting with Python.
• Astropy: Repository for the Astropy core package.
• Manim: A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
• Breathe: ReStructuredText and Sphinx bridge to Doxygen.
• Sphinx: The Sphinx documentation generator.