MacBook Air M5
The one that goes everywhere. Everything web and Rust happens here, and it does it fanless.
- chip
- M5 — 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU
- memory
- 24 GB
- storage
- 1 TB
- used for
- day-to-day dev
setup
No affiliate links, no aspirational gear. This is what's actually on and in use.
hardware
Desktop
Sits under the desk for the things a laptop shouldn't do: Unreal builds, editor work, games.
- os
- Windows 11
- cpu
- Intel i5-12400F
- gpu
- RTX 5060
- memory
- 32 GB DDR
- storage
- 1 TB M.2
Pocket and wrist
Apple ecosystem, mostly because handoff between the phone and the Air is genuinely useful.
- phone
- iPhone 16 Pro
- watch
- Apple Watch Series 11 — 42 mm, GPS
Audio
Calls with friends and playing music. The interface is more than either strictly needs, which is the usual reason anyone owns one.
- interface
- Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4th gen
- headphones
- AirPods Pro 2
Off the clock
Where I go when the compiler wins.
- console
- PlayStation 5 Pro
software
Editing
VS Code for anything with a window. Neovim the moment I'm on a box over SSH — not out of conviction, just that nano isn't a text editor.
- local
- VS Code
- over ssh
- Neovim
- previously
- Zed, and a lot of JetBrains
Shell
Stock macOS Terminal and stock zsh — I've never tried a replacement for either. The dotfiles are mine though, carried over from a stretch of distro hopping on Linux.
- terminal
- macOS Terminal
- shell
- zsh
- vcs
- git, on the command line