The hardware, the editor, and the AI setup I actually work in every day. Mostly vanilla Apple gear. Kept current rather than dated: if it’s listed, I really use it.
№ 01
Hardware
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Macs
- a MacBook Pro 16" (M4 Pro, 48GB) as the daily driver, plus an older M1 iMac still on the desk.
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Input
- the Apple Magic Trackpad (built in, and a standalone one for the iMac), the default Apple Magic Keyboard, and a Magic Mouse as backup.
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Desk & chair
- a big L-shaped corner desk and a Herman Miller Aeron in Mineral / Satin Aluminum.
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TV
- an LG CX OLED 65".
№ 02
Dev setup
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Editors
- VS Code for most work, Sublime Text for quick edits.
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Terminal & shell
- macOS Terminal (Pro dark theme) with zsh and Oh My Zsh. A pile of tabs and full-screen windows; I keep the rest in my head.
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Version control
- git from the command line (with gh), and GitHub for reviewing pull requests.
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Packages
- Homebrew for anything I install.
№ 03
AI & agents
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Harnesses
- Claude Code and Codex, the two agents I drive all day - both from the command line, not the desktop apps (which are installed but mostly idle).
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Primary models
- Fable 5 in Claude Code and GPT-5.6 (Sol) in Codex, at the biggest context window each harness allows; the two I reach for first.
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Supporting models
- Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, plus GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna, for sub-agents and problems that don’t need the superpowers.
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Local
- Ollama for offline runs: Gemma 4, Qwen 3.6 (MLX), and DeepSeek-OCR for documents, plus some local speech and TTS experiments (Kokoro-82M).
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