Uses

My current setup, last updated this month. I keep this page updated because people ask, and because future-me will thank past-me for writing it down.

Hardware

• MacBook Pro 16" (M3 Max, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD) — the daily driver
• LG 32UN880 32" monitor on an Ergotron arm
• Keychron K2 keyboard (brown switches, hot-swapped to Boba U4T)
• Logitech MX Master 3S mouse
• Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for focus
• Shure MV7 microphone for calls and podcasts
• Logitech Brio webcam

Software

• Editor: VS Code with a custom config (no heavy extensions)
• Terminal: Ghostty (recently switched from Alacritty)
• Shell: fish with starship prompt
• Browser: Firefox for daily, Chrome for debugging, Safari for cross-check
• Astro for most web projects
• Bun as the JavaScript runtime and package manager
• Raycast for productivity (clipboard history, snippets, window management)
• Linear for project management
• Obsidian for notes and writing
• 1Password for secrets

Editor setup

I keep my VS Code config in a public repo. The key bits:

• Vim keybindings (yes, really)
• No formatter arguments in the editor — biome handles it on save
• Inline AI completions off — I find them distracting
• Custom snippets for Astro, TypeScript, and Rust

What I do not use

• Heavy IDEs (IntelliJ, WebStorm) — too slow for my taste
• NPM — Bun is faster
• Docker Desktop — colima on macOS
• Slack — Linear + Discord covers it