Laptop: Apple M2 Max, 32GB memory (2023)

Setup:

Terminal:

- Ghostty + Starship for modern terminal experience

- Homebrew to install system packages

IDE:

- Zed (can connect to local models via LM-Studio server)

- also experimenting with warp.dev

LLMs:

- LM-studio as open-source model playground

- GPT-OSS 20B

- QWEN3-Coder-30B-AEB-quantized-4bit

- Gemma3-12B

Other utilities:

- Rectangle.app (window tile manager)

- Wispr.flow - create voice notes

- Obsidian - track markdown notes