Things I use • Rickey Wang

A list of products I use on a regular basis, along with some personal opinions.

Shoes
- Scarpa Instinct V (favourite)
- Scarpa Quantic (second favourite)
- Scarpa Vapor V (warmup & mileage)
Petzl Grigri 2
Sterling Evolution Velocity 9.8mm
Carabiners:
- Grivel Tau Wire Lock for secure anchor
- Mammut Smart HMS for belaying. It has a Poke-Yoke design that helps to prevent cross-loading and ensures that the carabiner is fully locked. In other words, you cannot close the plastic cover if the carabiner is not locked.
Petzl Djinn Axess Quickdraws
Black Diamond Solution Harness
Black Diamond Crag Half-Finger Gloves
Petzl CORDEX Belay Gloves (I like the Black Diamond better though)

Framework Laptop 13 (Intel 12th gen, 2022) is my main laptop. I really love the expansion cards which lets me customize the physical locations of my ports as my workspace evolves.
- I will note that once I settled on my expansion cards, they are seldomly changed.
- I wish the battery life was better.
- Windows 11 is mostly okay, but it took lots of work to debloat and tame it. It still rears its ugly head sometimes.

EasyEDA is currently my favourite. UX is quite nice and the desktop app is fully self-contained (runs offline). The app itself is mainly targeted at Chinese customers though, so the product gives off more “Chinese” than “Western” vibes. This means support and documentation are vastly better in Chinese.
There is no credible reason to start any new project in EAGLE or Autodesk Fusion 360 as of 2024.