Desk and computers

Main machine

14” MacBook Pro. Plugged into one cable, which was the entire buying criterion.

Display

A single 27” 4K. I tried two and spent more time arranging windows than working.

Keyboard

Tactile switches, 65%. Loud enough that my family knows when a deploy is going badly.

Audio

Open-back headphones at the desk, closed-back on planes. Do not mix these up.

Dev tools

Editor

Neovim, configured over about a decade. I do not recommend this to anyone.

Languages

Go and TypeScript for work, Python for anything I will run twice and throw away.

Terminal

tmux, and a shell history I treat as documentation.

Network

Wireshark, dig, and a pocket ethernet tester that has paid for itself many times.

Electronics bench

Oscilloscope

A 4-channel entry-level scope. Bought before I knew how to use it, which I stand by.

Multimeter

With a continuity beeper. Worth three without one, for reasons I have written about.

Soldering

Temperature-controlled iron and a fume extractor I should have bought five years earlier.

Reference

The Art of Electronics, understood in parts.

Travel kit

Camera

Whatever phone I have. The photographs here are all phone photographs.

Power

One GaN charger, three cables, a small bag they all live in permanently.

Network

A travel router. Hotel wi-fi becomes one network I control rather than four devices arguing with a captive portal.

Paper

A pocket notebook. It has never needed charging.