Setup

Setup Overview

This is my single source of truth for what I run every day. I keep it practical and update it when I actually change something.

• Workstation automation lives in dotfiles.
• Homelab infrastructure lives in home.io.
• Goal: fast workflow, repeatable rebuilds, and less guesswork when things break.

Hardware

Computers

Sherlock (primary desktop)

Sherlock is my main desk machine. Custom build, running Ubuntu Linux.

Component	Item
CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core
GPU	AORUS GeForce RTX 3080 MASTER 10G
RAM	G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 64GB
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero
Cooler	ASUS ROG Ryujin 240 AIO
Case	Lian Li O11D Mini
Fans	Lian Li UNI Fan SL 120
Storage	Samsung 980 PRO NVMe (1TB + 500GB)
PSU	Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold

Laptops

• M3 MacBook Pro (14-inch, Nov 2023)
• Intel MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
• HP mt46 Mobile Thin Client

Displays

I currently run a single 4K 60Hz monitor.

Peripherals

• Keyboard: ZSA Moonlander, custom Dvorak layout (ORYX config).
• Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3.
• Microphone: Rode NT-USB+.
• Webcams: Logitech C925E + Logitech C922.
• Headphones: Sony WH-1000XM5.
• Speakers: Creative T100.

Software Workflow

Terminal-first session flow

I spend most of my time in terminal sessions:

• Terminal: Ghostty
• Session manager: sesh
• Multiplexer: tmux (+ resurrect/continuum)

I usually hit <prefix>-o, fuzzy-find where I need to be, and let sesh attach/create the session.

For tmux navigation I use Ctrl+hjkl (via vim-tmux-navigator), and I sync panes when I need to run parallel commands.

Editor + shell stack

• Editor: Neovim with LSP, Treesitter, Telescope.
• Shell: zsh + powerlevel10k + custom functions for git/k8s/remote edit workflows.
• Infra tools: Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, kubectl, cloud CLIs.

Window management

I use a cell-based layout with summon keys, not traditional manual tiling.

On Linux this runs through AwesomeWM automation; on macOS through Hammerspoon. Same mental model across both.

Agent workflow tooling

• Codex
• Claude Code with custom hooks and status integration in tmux.
• oh-my-claude for sane defaults and repeatable workflows.
• openkanban for tracking parallel agent sessions.
• MCP servers for browser checks/docs/context plumbing.

Homelab

My homelab is built for repeatability, not hand-tuned snowflakes.

Hardware at a glance

Component	Specs
Compute	Dell PowerEdge R720xd (40 threads, 256GB ECC RAM)
Network	UniFi UDM Pro + U7 AP
Storage	UNAS Pro 8
Edge	Raspberry Pi 4B (8GB)

Architecture

• Proxmox VE hosts a 3-node Talos Kubernetes cluster.
• GitOps via ArgoCD.
• Traefik ingress + HA Cloudflare tunnels.
• MetalLB, Pi-hole DNS, local + NFS-backed storage patterns.

Workloads + rebuild path

I run 25+ services including Immich, dashboards, self-hosted runners, and an observability stack.

Everything is declarative through home.io using Terraform + Ansible + ArgoCD. If I lose a node, I rebuild from git.