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Tools, hardware, software, and workflows I rely on.
Hardware
Lenovo Legion 7i — Primary machine — RTX 4090, Windows 11 with WSL2 for development
ThinkPad X1 Carbon — Secondary machine — Linux, connected via Tailscale
Homelab Rack — 10-inch mini rack — MSI Cubi (the workhorse: runs Zarq, Agent-PKM, and Pulse), Beelink running Proxmox, ThinkPad monitoring node, Raspberry Pis for backups and DNS, Jetson Orin Nano
Zebra Android Devices — Enterprise scanners and mobile computers from the day job, doubling as dev targets
Plaud Recorder — Voice notes and meetings, auto-filed into Obsidian via a custom sync pipeline
Software
Claude Code — Where most of my code gets written — CLI agents on the Legion and headless workers on the homelab
Obsidian — PKM vault — daily journals, highlights, contacts, projects
Claude — Primary LLM — API, MCP servers, and the brains of Ping, Pulse, and KPIron
Bun — Preferred TypeScript runtime for standalone projects
VS Code — Editor of choice, with Claude Code extension
Docker — Containerized services on homelab, alongside plain systemd units
Workflows
Zarq — My idea-to-merged-code pipeline — shaped briefs go in, agents on the homelab do the work, I review what lands
Ping — Telegram/Discord AI companion — the mobile interface to everything below
Tailscale — Mesh VPN connecting all devices
Readwise — Syncs highlights from books, articles, and podcasts (via Snipd) into Obsidian — and from there onto this site
Todoist — Task management, synced to daily journal via bot
n8n — Automation workflows on homelab