Hardware and Tools
A page in the spirit of uses.tech: what I work on and with. All software and configs live in tot-ra/ai-workstation, so a new machine is a couple of scripts away.
Updated: October 2026
Computers
- Work: MacBook Pro M5, 48 GB - main machine for work and AI agents.
- Home: Mac mini M4 Pro, 24 GB, 512 GB SSD (2024) - quiet, always on, runs my local Brute agent.
- Personal laptop: MacBook M3, 32 GB - for travel and side projects.
- Old Core 2 Duo workstation - built ~15 years ago and still alive. How I picked it (in Russian): A quiet computer for early 2011.
Other devices
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano - edge AI and computer vision.
- Raspberry Pi - IoT experiments and prototypes.
- Xiaomi 17 - phone.
Travel
- Backpack: a 40-litre hiking backpack for trips and outdoor days.
Gaming
Desk setup
- Monitor: ASUS ProArt PA279CV - 27", 4K, IPS. Same model at home and at work.
- Keyboard at home: Ducky Origin Phantom Black - mechanical.
- Keyboard at work: Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad - full-size, low-profile, black keys.
- Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3S.
- Speakers: Yamaha HS5 - studio monitors.
- Audio interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen.
AI
- Models: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Cursor API, open models via OpenRouter.
- Harness: my own A2gent - agent orchestration, integrations, voice, tasks.
- Images: Leonardo AI, OpenAI Images, ComfyUI.
- Local: LM Studio.
- Voice: Superwhisper for dictation.
- Also: Codex, opencode.
Editors and terminal
- Terminal: Ghostty (previously iTerm2 and WezTerm) + tmux.
- Shell: zsh, Powerlevel10k, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting.
- Editors: mostly A2gent these days. Before that - GoLand, Neovim with LazyVim, VS Code. Sometimes RubyMine.
- Font: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font.
- CLI: ripgrep, fd, fzf, bat, eza, zoxide, yazi, jq, yq, btop, lazygit, mise, pnpm, just.
Development and infrastructure
- Containers: OrbStack, kubectl, k9s, Helm, lazydocker.
- Network: Tailscale across all machines, ngrok.
- Databases and APIs: DBeaver, Bruno, Postman.
- Languages: TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust. More on the stack on the About page.
- This site: my own Go static site generator blog-engine-md.
macOS
- Karabiner-Elements - key remapping (Ctrl/Shift+Insert like on Windows/Linux).
- AeroSpace and Rectangle - window management.
- Maccy - clipboard history.