Personal Hardware and Software

Hardware

1. A 16" MacBook Pro (2019). Replaced 2014 15" Macbook Pro.
2. A NixOS Linux machine at home. Replaced the old Intel i5-8600K system in December 2020.

The laptop is my daily driver. Even when working at home, I'm usually on my laptop connected to a dock for two monitors and ethernet. I use the Linux machine as a sort of server where I do the majority of my development work over SSH from my laptop. When I'm working locally, there's essentially no latency cost from SSH'ing, and when remote I have to pay the price of about 100ms.

The server provides two major functions: (1) development, and (2) backups. For (1), I simply SSH from my laptop and rely on Tmux + Vim to do nearly all of my development over SSH. When I'm not on my server's LAN, I use Wireguard to talk to it remotely. Backups (2), were incredibly easy to set up on NixOS. I run a Timemachine server on the 4TB WD Red's in RAID1. Similar to developing remotely, my backups occur over Wireguard when I'm away from home.

The CPU is overclocked using AMD's new Precition Boost Overdrive 2 which provided some decent gains:

Networking

1. Edgerouter-4
2. ER-X
3. Raspberry Pi for Pi-Hole
4. Eero Pro's for WiFi

I will fully document the network setup in the future, but at a high level, I have a home network (server + laptop + Pi's) reachable via a Wireguard bounce-server hosted on a cloud provider. I'm currently in the process of upgrading my router (ER-X) to the ER-4, and using the ER-X as a switch.

Software

Linux desktop software. Thanks John.

Dotfiles

With the exception of sensitive (network/backup) configurations, my dotfiles are available on Github.