Setup

Software

IDE: Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

My current editor of choice is Visual Studio Code with a variety of extensions and user settings that make it a good fit for my daily work and preferred programming languages. While there are certainly more intricate editors that offer more capabilities when you spend some time configuring them (looking at you, neovim), in my experience Code has "just worked" without much fuss.

Extensions
Layout and Theming

Font Family (Editor and Integrated Terminal): JetBrains Mono

Font Size (Editor and Integrated Terminal): 14px

Workbench Icon Theme: Catppuccin Mocha

Workbench Color Theme: Gruvbox Dark Medium

Workbench Default Panel Location: Left

Workbench Sidebar Location: Right

Other

File associations:*.bu: yaml*.css: tailwindcss

Render Whitespace: all

Tab size: 2

Workspace Trust - Enabled: false

Workspace Trust - Startup Prompt: never

Zen Mode - Full Screen: false

Zen Mode - Hide Activity Bar: false

Zen Mode - Hide Line Numbers: false

Zen Mode - Hide Status Bar: false

Zen Mode - Hide Tabs: false

Zen Mode - Silent Notifications: false

Operating Systems

Fedora Budgie Spin image

Fedora Budgie Spin

I use Fedora Budgie Spin and Fedora Budgie Atomic on the majority of my systems (desktop and two laptops). Fedora Budgie Spin is a Fedora spin that ships with Budgie Desktop, developed by Buddies of Budgie, and is spearheaded by myself. Fedora Budgie Atomic is an immutable operating system based on Fedora and rpm-ostree, which is a hybrid image / package system that enables atomic transactions.
macOS image

macOS

I use macOS 14.x Sanoma on a Macbook Pro 14in (2021) with an M1 Pro. This laptop is used for working on mobile application development in XCode at my day job. Secretly crossing my fingers to eventually run Fedora Asahi when Budgie gets Wayland support and Fedora Asahi has full hardware support.

Terminal

Terminal

My Terminal of choice is Kitty. Kitty is an insanely smooth GPU-based terminal emulator leverating OpenGL with built-in support for tabs and windows (eliminating the need for tmux), proper Unicode support (including ligatures), and a clean configuration format.

For my Shell, I use fish, having historically used zsh + ohmyzsh. I use fish for several reasons: it is notable faster than zsh, fish configuration and scripting, and built-in support for features such as fuzzy history (which you would otherwise need to use ohmyzsh for). My fish configuration is set up to offer comparable user experiences between macOS and Linux (path differences, Linux-specific functions).

No fancy CLI-based experience would be complete without a prompt. For that, I use Starship! 🦀

Hardware

Desktop

Main specs

Case: Fractal Design Meshify 2 Black

CPU: Intel Core i9-12900K (16c/24t)

CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 420

GPU: Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition

Memory32GB

Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL18

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z690-P D4

Monitors9600x2160px

Lenovo ThinkVision T27p-10 (3840x2160)

Lenovo ThinkVision T27p-10 (3840x2160)

Acer K222HQL (1920x1080)

Storage7.24TB

NVMe: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB

NVMe: Seagate FireCuda 520 1TB

HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB

HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB

SSD: Kingston UV400 240GB

Misc

OS: Fedora Budgie Spin

Gaming Mouse: Corsair SCIMITAR RGB Elite

Keyboard: Helidox Corne with Gateron Clear

Microphone: Sennheiser Profile

Productivity Mouse: Logitech MX ERGO Wireless Trackball