Our working setup

Updated June, 2024

Here’s how we currently do our work, both personal and professional.

• iPad
  • Termius - just a great SSH client
  • Working Copy - Strong Git client for iOS
  • GitHub - if you have to ask…
• Mac
  • Terminal with Oh-our-zsh for terminal-ly good looks (and shortcuts)
  • Doom Emacs - we wrote about doom emacs for blogging
  • Roon - Can’t work without music!
  • Visual Studio - replaced TextMate and SublimeText and haven’t looked back; strange for us to say that for a Microsoft product (different than say GitHub, which was an acquisition)
  • 1Password - long-time user
  • Trello - Despite the Atlassian acquisition, this is still our go-to for just a general purpose throw it up and track it. Using the Assista bot for time tracking on tickets we drag into the Doing list - it helps a lot with billable work, but also helps us track where our play time goes.
  • yt-dlp - it’s a secret
  • CyberDuck - connect to anything for remote file access/management
  • Homebrew - we see no reason to leave this hardy package manager - it’s just worked under brutal conditions for years and years.
• Home network
  • Fiber, it’s the only way to fly
  • Unifi network throughout house; wired (by hand, blood, dust, cobwebs, and pink spackle) and wireless
  • Pi-hole - remove all the craptasic stuff out there, network-wide
  • Tailscale - take our networks with us securely (recent addition so lots to learn)
• SaaS
  • Cloudflare - it’s the only online service that we don’t have a fear of recommending. Yes, there might be some issues from the centralization of the decentralized web, but right now, that’s not a critical path issue.
  • Hugo - The most performant, flexible, and joyous web development platform. This site and our LLC and Synth company are built with it.