Uses

It's a very good price to value machine you can buy these days. It's not top of the line stuff but when most of my coding happens outside of my local machine you don't need a beefy machine. The only thing I care about is does it feel good to use for general computing and does the battery last.

This was my first machine that I used for serious work. I still have it laying around at my house, mostly used by my dad. It served its purpose back then. I'd recommend getting an old ThinkPad if you're limited on budget. It does the job.

A good and very cheap 65% keyboard. The body is fully aluminium with acrylic backplate because you attach an image at the back. Probably one of the best keyboard I've ever had. I really like how it feels when typing. Bought it for cheap from China second hand market

It does its job. It's your bog-standard wireless mouse. I like the fact that it has charging dock so I can just plonk it there whenever I'm done with it. Not the best, but not bad either. It's just a generic mouse that does the job.

I used to be deep in audiophile stuff but these days I don't really care. Ziigat Nuo was one of the best at its price point and I happen to find someone selling it for really cheap so I bought it. I never have to think about IEM anymore.

Back when I was doing audiophile stuff I ordered this from a local custom earbud maker. I don't know how he does it but it's spot on. It sounds exactly like how I requested it.

Main purpose of it is for practicality. I'm bringing it with me whenever I'm travelling. Not much else to it really other than it's pretty good for its price.

I started on Vim out of stubbornness, because everyone said Vim was hard and I wanted to prove that was aimed at people who gave up early. Neovim is basically the modern version of Vim with a bunch of additions. Used it for years, this used to be my main editor before I go all in with AI assisted coding. Now it's just there for quick script edit when I'm already in the terminal

One of the most exciting project I've been following since its first emergence. Now it's my main editor for editing something serious, like this website. I still do manual handcoding for fun and for when I need very granular control. It's a fun and fast editor to use. I'd highly recommend it.

My main language for building anything, really. I like it more these days because there's things like Effect and the fact that there's an abundance of training data so AI is good at writing them. This is not without tradeoffs, though. I've accepted its shortcoming for its benefits. I do use other language when the situation calls for it, but Typescript is usually my first choice.

It's basically a whole ass system for Typescript. You can just think of it as the 'standard library' for Typescript. I build all my projects using Effect for quite a long time now. Don't let the weird syntax fool you, just give it a try. Your agents will thank you.

It manages all infra related stuff for me. IaaC has been around for a while but Alchemy uses Effect and it just feels very composable and natural compared to something like Terraform. It's just Typescript at the end of the day.

I pretty much replaced React with Foldkit these days. The goal is to have Effect end to end because it's such a robust system that makes me enjoy writing Typescript once again. Also because I'm quite fond of The Elm Architecture. Makes things simpler to reason about.

Probably one of the most used coding agents out there. It's what the default for most people. I only use it because the company pays for it and use it for work related stuff only.

Pretty much the Vim of coding agent. It's minimal by default but stupidly extensible you can build pretty much anything with it. This is my main agent for short tasks and quick things I need to do. It's pretty minimal and fast.

My coding harness of choice. They're really ahead of their time, like, always. A lot of people describe them as the Porsche of coding agents and they're absolutely right! You should try it out, especially their orbs. It really takes the pain out of coding agents.

I'm sure it's the reason why coding agents become more accessible for a lot of people. It's really cheap and generous with its limit.

I chose Fujifilm because it looks sexy and has great colour science, things like film simulation and whatnot. I use this camera mostly for street photography. It's just a hobby thing that I do when I'm bored of asking LLM to write code for me

It's my phone that happens to also have a decent camera. It's not amazing because I don't like computational photography, the same reason why I don't like iPhone camera, but it does the job when I need it. It's a phone camera so what do you expect lol.