Uses

The gear, tools, and software I use daily. Updated occasionally as things change.

Current Hardware

Apple M2 Max Studio

Primary machine. Handles everything I throw at it.
Apple M3 Ultra Studio

Backup and Local LLM Inference.
Apple Mac Mini M2
Retired

Dedicated to running OpenClaw. OpenClaw is shut down. Grok Bot has taken over.
Apple Studio Display x2

Dual monitor setup. Sharp, colour accurate, and pairs perfectly with the Studios.
Apple MacBook Pro M5

Travel machine. The M1 died after six years on the road. RIP.
Apple iPad Pro & Samsung Galaxy Tab S9

Tablets for reading, annotating, and quick tasks on the go.
Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max

Daily phone.
Apple Watch Ultra 3

Notifications, workouts, and staying connected on the move.
Apple AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Max & HomePod

Sound setup across desk, travel, and home.
Apple iCloud 2TB, Oyen 4TB & Samsung T7 SSD

Backup strategy across cloud and local drives.
Meta Ray-Ban Wayfarer

Camera, mic, and speakers built into normal looking glasses. I used them with OpenClaw for hands free voice queries and still use them for quick photo capture while on the move. Gift from the lovely team at Rank Math.
Meta Quest 3

VR headset for mixed reality and immersive demos. Also a generous gift from the team at Rank Math.
YubiKey 5C NFC

Hardware security key for two factor authentication. Phishing proof and works across USB C and NFC.

Wishlist

Apple Vision Pro

Spatial computing for immersive workflows. Not enough value for the price right now. Waiting for the second generation before committing.
NVIDIA DGX Spark

Desktop class AI supercomputer with 128GB unified memory. Local inference without compromise.
Apple Studio Display XDR

The Pro Display XDR but hopefully at a less offensive price point. Whenever Apple decides to ship it.

My Tool Stack

Claude

My primary AI for writing, thinking, and coding (through Claude Code).
Codex

OpenAI’s coding agent for generating code and pair programming.
Grok Bot

Built on Grok. It took over the jobs OpenClaw used to do.
Gemini

Retired for most tasks. I wasn’t happy with it. I only use it for network analysis now.
Obsidian

Markdown knowledge base where all my notes and project docs live. My second brain.
Manus AI
Retired

General purpose AI agent for autonomous research, data analysis, and complex multi step tasks.
OpenClaw
Retired

Runs on my Mac Mini M2. Anthropic Opus 4.6 as the primary model with MiniMax 2.5 as backup. Grok Bot does the job now.
Pinecone

Vector database for semantic search and retrieval.
Cloudflare

Pretty much everything. This site runs on Workers, the Ask AI search lives in Vectorize and Workers AI, the images sit in R2, and Turnstile keeps the bots off the forms.
Cursor Ultra

My editor. Grok Super Heavy and GPT 5.6 Sol do most of the work in it.
Hetzner

Linux servers for anything that needs a real box. The CMS editor, the self hosted analytics, and the newsletter all live there.
Tailscale

Private network across my machines and servers, so I can SSH into any of them from anywhere without opening a port.
Backblaze

Remote backup. The off site copy in case the local drives and iCloud let me down on the same day.
Apple Notes

Fast capture for ideas and quick thoughts.
VoiceInk

On device voice to text for quick notes, drafts, and dictating prompts.
Spark

Email client that keeps the inbox under control.