What I use.

M5 Max, 128GB, 2TB. Enough memory to run local models and a dozen containers without the fans noticing.

Code on one, everything else on the other. I tried going back to one screen once. Once.

Boring on purpose. The fewer things I tinker with at the desk, the more I tinker with in the editor.

Part productivity tool, part science experiment. A giant virtual display on the couch is hard to give up.

Mostly a camera for the kids, occasionally a phone.

Battery that outlasts a full day of meetings and a weekend outside.

Calls, podcasts, and noise cancelling for deep-work blocks.

For when the house is loud and the deadline is louder.

My daily driver for agentic coding. Most features start as a conversation here.

Agent harness manager. Keeps parallel agent sessions, threads, and worktrees organized.

Running local models for experiments, private data, and offline tinkering.

Keeps an eye on what all those agents are costing me.

Editor, for when I need to read the diff myself.

A terminal that feels like it was built this decade.

PHP, Laravel, and local sites with zero setup. This site runs on it locally.

Docker and Linux VMs that start fast and stay out of the way.

One clean client for every database I touch.

Still the nicest way to move files to a server or a bucket.

Browser with AI built in, which I lean on for research and reading docs.

Focus playlists on repeat, and whatever the kids requested last.