I'm a:
- Gamer
- Full stack web dev
- Android/iOS/MacOS/Windows Dev
So I have a lot of machines
Machine 1
- Purpose: MacOS/iOS app builder/publisher
- Usage: 100% work
- Location: Work
- OS: Modified MacOS Sequoia
- Sequoia to avoid the glass interface disaster that Apple released
- Uses custom window manager built in hammerspoon because fuck macos's window management
- Modified firmware so Caps + IJKJ = Arrows
- Shell: ZSH
- IDE: VSCode
Machine 2
- Purpose: Personal computer
- Usage: 90% games / 10% work
- Location: Home
- OS: Modified Windows 11
- All the ads and AI bloat is removed but it requires increasing maintenance to maintain
- Shell: ZSH through WSL Ubuntu
- IDE: VSCode
Machine 3:
- Purpose: do everything on the go
- Usage: 50% games / 50% work
- Location: Wherever
- OS: Modified Windows 11
- All the ads and AI bloat is removed but it requires increasing maintenance to maintain
- Shell: ZSH through WSL Ubuntu
- IDE: VSCode
Machine 4:
- Purpose: Disposable environments to test new things
- Usage: 100% work
- Location: Work
- OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (Current plasma version is great so far)
- Shell: ZSH
- IDE: VSCode
Also:
- Android Tablets
- Android Phones
- iPads
- iPhones
Future:
- Helix
- I want to learn Helix's keyboard workflow
- Helix's lack of extensions has held me back.
- Helix has been working on extensions for a while though and I'll re-evaluate it once it does and the community builds the needed extensions
- Zed has some helix commands, so I may switch to that from vscode to get helix commands + extensions.
- OSs
- I want to reduce my windows 11 maintenance
- Held back by anti-cheat games (PUBG, then Helldivers 2, and will try Arc Raiders these holidays, potentially Marathon next year)
- I'll experiment with KDE / Cosmic / Niri in 2026.
- If no anti-cheat games have captured my attention in 2027, I'll switch another one of my personal machines to Linux