Uses
The kit I actually use.
A working list of the hardware, software, and AI tools I keep coming back to. Updated occasionally — only things that survive a few months on the list.
Hardware
- Laptop
- MacBook Pro 16″ — M-series, plenty of RAM
- Display
- Apple Studio Display, single screen on purpose
- Keyboard
- Keychron Q1 — tactile switches, slow keystrokes
- Mouse
- Logitech MX Master 3
- Headphones
- Sony WH-1000XM5 for deep work
- Mic
- Shure MV7 for recording
Editor & terminal
- Editor
- Cursor for AI-assisted work, Neovim for pure text
- Terminal
- Warp + Starship prompt
- Theme
- Catppuccin Mocha, mostly
- Font
- JetBrains Mono, ligatures off
AI
- Daily model
- Claude — long context, pushes back
- Code model
- Claude in Cursor; Codex for one-offs
- UI generation
- v0 for first drafts
- Search
- Perplexity for sourced answers
- Notes
- Granola for meetings, Obsidian for the brain
Build & deploy
- Hosting
- Vercel — the deploy loop is the killer feature
- DB
- Supabase or Postgres on Neon
- Auth
- Clerk or just email links
- Resend
- Analytics
- Umami — privacy-friendly
Productivity
- Launcher
- Raycast
- Calendar
- Cron
- Tasks
- Linear if it's a project, Apple Reminders if it's not
- Browser
- Arc