Uses

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.
• Steam Deck - a portable Linux computer, occasionally for work too.
• Xiaomi 17 - phone.

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 (USB-C, 4th Gen).

AI

Most of my work happens in my own harness A2gent: agent orchestration, integrations, voice, tasks.

• Models: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Cursor API, open models via OpenRouter.
• 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.

Everyday

• Notes: Obsidian.
• Passwords: Bitwarden.
• Browser: Chrome.
• Chat: Telegram, Slack, Discord.
• Media: Spotify, VLC, OBS.