My Development Setup

For work I run Pop!_OS without too much customization and use nix home-manager to manage packages. For my terminal wezterm/tmux/zsh/neovim and for pretty much all development I use VSCode.

I don't have too many issues running linux for work besides the occasional desktop hang when trying to share my screen with Firefox. The entire team is a linux shop and all in all I do think it's a compelling alternative to mac in today's day and age. Users maintain a lot of flexibility and vitualizing anything is a lot easier. That flexibility does come at a cost, whoever, as folks are on their own to troubleshoot distro-specific issues. A slim majority run Ubuntu or Ubuntu derivative distros, but there are a decent faction of Arch users and a few Fedora as well.

Anyway, outside of work my daily driver is an m1 macbook air. I love the battery life and it does what I need it to do. I don't have many personal projects at the moment, but when I do need to access to a development environment I use a VM that I have running on my Desktop PC/server running Proxmox.

Using home-manager is nice because I can quickly provision a VM (local or remote) for dev if need be. So I just ssh or VSCode remote into my local VM and the experience is very similar to may day to day work workflow.

A few odds and ends- I use tailscale to access my home network while away, so as long as latency isn't bad I can really code from any machine. I also rely on 1password and github to bootstrap my dev environment.

Write Something Every Day

I've always struggled to write consistently so my new goal is to write something every day.