mspaint & aseprite - for pixel art
GIMP - image editing and mapping
Procreate and Clip Studio Paint for digital drawing
w3schools - great resource for learning coding languages
Visual Studio Code - code editor
Cyberduck - WebDAV, site management

specific credits

nan4san for the portrait pic in the 'about me' section of doggo and I
pixel safari - balloon favicon
vgmusic - for Mario Paint BGM 2
the sounds resource - dogundo.wav from Mario Paint used on clear button
dafont 04b_30 by 04 used on journal header
tiled backgrounds (archived) bones bg on journal page