Setup

Sometimes people ask me about my computing setup, so I decided to share it.

Servers

• Dedicated servers in OVH
• Droplets in DigitalOcean (you can get $100 credits from this referral link)
• VPS in Vultr ($10 from referral signup)
• Fly.io for applications

I use Vultr/DigitalOcean depending on server availability in certain locations. But I also know my way around AWS/GCP, for dockerized applications, kubernetes cluster and all that DevOps stuff.

Mobile

• iPhone 12 Pro Max 128GB
• 2020 iPad Air
• Apple Watch Series 6

Desktop

Hardware

• i9-13900KF
• 64GB of DDR5 memory
• WD Black 2 TB M.2
• 2x Western Digital Red 2 TB 3.5" SATA III
• GeForce RTX 4090

Software

• OS: Arch Linux
• DE: Gnome 3
• shell: zsh + oh-my-zsh
• terminal: Tilda
• text editor/IDE: vim / sublime text
• VCS: git
• web browser: Brave + Firefox
• Music and podcasts: Spotify + Rhythmbox
• videos: Plex
• notes: Notion
• to-do lists: MS Todo
• IM: Telegram

Laptop

Hardware

• Clevo N141CU
• i7-10510CU
• 64GB of memory
• Samsung 970 PRO 512 GB
• Samsung 860 PRO 2 TB
• Killer Wireless-AX 1650 Gaming WiFi module 802.11AX/WiFi6 + Bluetooth 5.0

Software

• OS: ArchLinux + BlackArch
• DE: Gnome 3
• shell: zsh + oh-my-zsh
• terminal: gnome-terminal
• text editor/IDE: vim / sublime text
• VCS: git
• web browser: Brave + Firefox
• Music and podcasts: Spotify
• IM: Telegram
• Videos: player

Another laptop

Hardware

• 2022 M1 MacBook Pro 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

Software

• shell: zsh + oh-my-zsh
• text editor/IDE : vim / vscode
• IM: telegram
• web browser: Brave / Safari

I run telegraf on all of my machines and keep usage data on my personal grafana dashboards.

When I work on my products I:

• monitor application errors in self-hosted Sentry
• track incoming traffic in Plausible
• use mostly TailwindCSS for frontend stuff
• rather stick with Rails and Hotwired with PostgreSQL as a database engine
• CI/CD using either gitlab-runner on my machines or Drone