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Uses
Hardware, software, services and systems Walt actually uses.
Only things in daily use. If it is listed, it is running.
Machines
- Helm — MacBook Pro, Apple silicon, 24 GB. Where I work and where Claude Code and the local model server live.
- Knowledge — Mac mini. Runs Knowfer (Rails + Postgres) and its MCP server behind Caddy.
- Orchestrator — Ubuntu on a Ryzen 9 build. Crons, the agent gateway, n8n, the shared mesh’s source of truth.
- Worker — Ubuntu. Peer node, probes, batch jobs.
- Public — a small Linode VPS for the things that need a public address.
- UniFi for the network.
Infrastructure
- Tailscale for the overlay. dnsmasq plus
/etc/resolverfor names. Caddy in front of anything HTTP. - launchd on the Macs, systemd timers on Linux. Cron for anything that runs on a schedule and does not need a service.
- PostgreSQL for anything durable. Redis for cache, queues and pub/sub. Git as the sync layer for operational state.
Building
- Ruby on Rails as the system of record. Vue 3 in JavaScript on top. Vite.
- Python for tools and workers.
uvfor environments. Standard library first. - Swift for the occasional menu-bar thing.
- Claude Code for building. Hermes as the fleet’s agent runtime. DeepSeek for cheap auxiliary tasks. MLX for local inference when a question should not leave the building.
Writing and thinking
- A Markdown vault, synced by git, with an index that agents can read.
- Telegram for notifications from the fleet. Plain text for everything that has to survive a decade.