Computers

• Macbook Pro M3 Max

  macOS Sequoia

  My daily driver laptop for general purpose and software development.
• Acer Spin 713-3w

  NixOS 25.05 (unstable)

  Secondary driver for experimenting with Linux and NixOS in particular. Used as a beater laptop around the house or for small trips.
• Lenovo Legion T730-28ICO

  Windows 11

  Primarily used for Windows exclusive apps (like video games and whatnot) and softwere development sometimes.
• OptiPlex 5060M

  NixOS 25.05 (unstable)

  A secondary Linux mini-pc on my office desk. Used for dabbling in Linux, though nothing that the Macbook can't already do!
• MSI Raider GE75

  NixOS 25.05 (unstable)

  Retired gaming laptop from undergrad used for Linux distro hopping -- most recently Proxmox and now NixOS for home server use. Uniquely has an "okay" GPU so can run small LLMs like llama3.2.

Development

• Alacritty

  Cross-platform OpenGL-powered terminal emulator

• iTerm2

  Modern macOS terminal emulator

• neovim

  Modern text editor fork of Vim

• tmux

  Terminal multiplexer

• Visual Studio Code

  Cross-platform modern extensible text editor

CLI

• nix

  Declarative functional package manager

• homebrew

  Third party package manager for macOS and Linux

• devenv

  Declarative nix development shell composer

• direnv

  Load environment variables on directory switch

• lazygit

  terminal UI for git commands

• commitizen

  conventional git commit prompter

General

• Firefox

  Privacy-first web browser from Mozilla

• Safari

  Default privacy-first and optimized macOS web browser

• Obsidian

  Markdown-based note organizer

• OBS

  Open source video and live streaming software

• Element

  Cross-platform Matrix client

• Proton

  Security-first encrypted email service