My Setup
Everything I use, play with, fix and break at home, in Saint-Malo.
Some of it is modern, a lot of it is older than this blog, and most of it has been opened at least once.
At the desk
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| MacBook Pro 16" | Where I do almost everything : work, code, photos, and this blog. |
| Apple Studio Display | A splurge, I admit. But it’s beautiful, and the pixel density is incredible. |
| Apple Keyboard M0116 | The keyboard I type on every day, plugged in through my own ADB to USB converter. |
| A plaid I made myself | Because a desk needs one. |
Home lab
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| The NAS | Built it myself : an Intel Core i5-8500, 16 GB of RAM, a Samsung 860 EVO SSD for the system and two 4 TB Seagate IronWolf drives mirrored with ZFS. It runs NixOS and a few dozen services : files, photos, music, backups, the home automation and my side projects. The whole configuration lives in a Git repository. |
| Zigbee network | Switches and sensors talk to zigbee2mqtt, then to Homebridge, so everything shows up in Apple’s Home app. The pilot wire radiators are on Zigbee too, with a scheduling app I wrote myself running on the NAS. |
| Roborock V1 | My robot vacuum, rooted and running Valetudo : no cloud. |
| HomePods | Two big ones and two minis, for music all over the house. |
Games
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| Windows PC | The gaming PC in my office. |
| Homemade Steam Machine | A second-hand Dell OptiPlex 3060 (i5-8500) with a GTX 1650, a Noctua fan and a new power supply, running Bazzite. |
| NES and Super NES | The originals, cartridges included. |
Retro corner
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| Macintosh SE/30 | The one that started it all. To tinker, have fun and feel a bit nostalgic. I brought it back to life, I’m building an Ethernet board for it, and it even scans my films. |
| Apple II | It came after the SE/30. |
| PowerBook 150 | And a few other old laptops. |
| iPod 3rd generation | Modded with an SD card instead of the hard drive. |
| iPod 5.5th generation | The white one. |
Workshop
| Machine | What it does |
|---|---|
| Prusa MINI | My 3D printer : cases, brackets, and spare parts for everything above. |
| Monoprice 3D printer | An old one, converted into a laser engraver. |
Photography
| Gear | What it does |
|---|---|
| Fujifilm X-T30 II | My digital camera, which I taught to print on an instax Link 3. |
| Apple QuickTake 150 | One of the very first consumer digital cameras, from 1995. |
| Minolta XD | The Japanese version, for film. |
| Pentax AF35 | A point and shoot, for film too. |
| Epson FilmScan 200 | A SCSI film scanner from the 90s, driven by my SE/30 with a driver I wrote from scratch. |
I develop and scan my films at home.