Uses

Standing desk with manual crank. Simple and reliable.

Remastered edition. The best office chair investment I've made.

Main machine. Still going strong.

Lightweight ChromeOS laptop for outdoor work and travel.

Wireless mechanical keyboard with Gateron switches. My daily driver.

Premium low-profile wireless keyboard. Great for quiet typing.

Multi-device keyboard with integrated phone and tablet stand.

Compact Bluetooth keyboard that's always in my bag for outdoor work.

Secondary input for Mac gestures and precision work.

Ergonomic vertical mouse that fixed my wrist pain.

Main mouse. Best scroll wheel and multi-device switching.

Ultra-portable wireless mouse for travel.

Main microphone for calls, recording, and streaming.

Condenser microphone. Great value for podcast-quality audio.

USB audio interface for the Behringer C3 condenser mic.

2.1 speaker system with subwoofer. Solid desk audio.

Noise-cancelling headphones for deep focus work.

Mirrorless camera used as main webcam via capture card.

Wide-angle lens for the Sony a6000. Great depth of field.

7-inch field monitor for camera framing during recordings.

10-inch teleprompter for scripted video content.

Backup webcam. Reliable plug-and-play for quick calls.

HDMI capture card turning the Sony a6000 into a USB webcam.

Video switcher for multi-camera setups and live streaming.

Key light for video calls and recordings. WiFi controlled.

LED panel light for fill and accent lighting.

Smart ambient lighting for the workspace.

Thunderbolt 3 dock. Single-cable setup for the MacBook.

Wireless presentation remote for conference talks.

Smart speaker for quick timers and music while working.

Hypervisor running across both nodes. 52 CPU cores, 144 GB RAM total.

All-in-one gateway, firewall, and network controller.

Network-wide ad blocker running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Refurbished rack server with 4x 3.5-inch drive slots. Main compute node.

Refurbished tower workstation. Secondary compute node.

4-bay NAS with 20+ TB RAID storage for backups and media.

Self-hosted GitLab instance for private repositories.

CI/CD runner connected to the self-hosted GitLab instance.

Container management UI for Docker environments.

Reverse proxy with SSL management for all services.

Private Docker registry for container images.

Smart home automation hub controlling lights, sensors, and devices.

Kubernetes management platform for homelab clusters.

Self-hosted uptime monitoring for all services.

Automatic container image updates.

Cron job manager with web UI for scheduled tasks.

Simple home cloud OS for personal cloud services.

Main code editor with extensive extension ecosystem.

Terminal-based editor for quick edits and remote work.

Terminal emulator for macOS with split panes and profiles.

Terminal multiplexer for persistent sessions and panes.

Main browser. Spaces and profiles make context-switching effortless.

Secondary browser for testing and privacy-focused browsing.

Knowledge base and project planning for personal and team use.

Markdown-based note-taking with local-first storage.

Design tool for wireframes, mockups, and presentations.

Primary communication for work teams and communities.

Community communication for open-source and developer groups.

Primary cloud provider. GDE (Cloud) since 2020.

Secondary cloud for specific workloads and services.

European cloud provider for cost-effective VMs and bare metal.

Container runtime for development and production workloads.

Container orchestration. The core of my professional expertise.

Infrastructure as Code for cloud resource provisioning.

Configuration management and automation for servers.