Tools

Most people assume I’m joking when I say I code on a 14-inch laptop with no external monitor. Then they see my setup, one screen, a split terminal, and Vim, and they ask how I survive. Truth is, I didn’t always. I used to have the whole cockpit: dual 24s, browser open wide, logs on one side, docs on the other, Slack buzzing in the corner. It felt productive. Like sitting in front of a control panel, everything glowing. ...

At some point last month, I realized I hadn’t opened a “real” app in days. No calendar app. No separate to-do manager. No Word, no Excel, no IDE even, just a browser, a keyboard, and Notion with GPT whispering in the sidebar. Sometimes Obsidian. Sometimes ChatGPT itself. Always something that blurred the line between note-taking and system-building. It started as an experiment: could I run my whole digital life from just notes and AI? ...