Uses

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

My desk setup

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 — 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 — General purpose AI agent for autonomous research, data analysis, and complex multi step tasks. Retired.
  • OpenClaw — Runs on my Mac Mini M2. Anthropic Opus 4.6 as the primary model with MiniMax 2.5 as backup. Retired. 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.

I also use many of the tools listed on my resources page.