Some of what I use
Includes my desk setup, apps I use daily and more.
Development
- Zed is my primary code editor, with XY-Zed theme and BerkeleyMono Nerd Font
- Ghostty terminal with ZSH and OhMyZsh!
- Orbstack a really fast alternative to Docker Desktop
- Postico a wonderful GUI to browser Postgres Databases.
- Hoppscotch for API testing, slowly moving to posting
- Tuple for code pairing
- Claude Code is my coding agent of choice, been trying out the new Codex CLI too.
- Tailscale for connecting with my VPS and other devices, also for tunnelling
Daily Apps
- Bitwarden and 1Password for personal and work profiles
- Picoletter, an OSS app I built for sending newsletters
- Cleanshot X
- Craft.do and Apple Notes for note taking
- Discord for interacting with the Chatwoot and VueIndia community
- Ente Auth for 2FA
- Flighty for keeping a track of my flights
- Fold Money for tracking my expenses and investments
- GoodNotes for reading and annotating papers on my iPad
- Notion Calendar is my calendar app these days, formerly known as Cron
- Pika Color Picker
- Raycast, spotlight replacement
- Rectangles.app for window management
- Todoist for personal and work task management
Hardware
- BenQ DesignVue PD2706UA is my monitor of choice, excellent colors and runs the whole setup with a single USB-C cable
- I use a M1 Pro, MacBook Pro 2021 with 16GB RAM for work, I also have a personal M1 Macbook Air I ocassionaly use
- An iPhone 16 Pro is my daily driver, a great combination of good battery life and great cameras for capturing moments.
- I keep an iPad Air M1 with an Apple Pencil as a secondary display when I am on the road and need some screen real estate.
- A Yubikey for hardware 2FA.
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W for hacking or as a mobile terminal over tailscale SSH
- A Nintendo Switch 2 for some light gaming on the move, or docked to the TV
- BoostCharge Pro 65W GAN Charger from Belkin, it’s sufficient for all my devises, and is extremely compact. Great for travel.
- Been using the 1st gen Airpods Pro for over 4 years now, super convenient, great noise cancellation
- Apple Magic Keyboard & Trackpad, they are great default options, so got em
- Herman Miller Celle chair I bought at a clearance sale.
- A Moleskine notebook for journalling
- RodaNotes Notepad Slim on the side to quickly write ideas, todos, etc.
- Apple Homepod Mini on my desk for music and podcasts.
- Kickstand MagSafe Charger from ESR.
Last updated on 19 Sept 2025