⚠ Draft for Zain's pass. Inventory from the vault; annotate/prune to taste. Every photo slot below is live: drop files into
public/stuff/and addsrc="/stuff/…"to its Figure.
Every item here has a why. That's the rule of this page: gear is only interesting if the reasoning is visible.
The desk
M1 Mac Mini. The first machine I ever owned outright. ₹76,410 with student discount; I knew the number by heart a year before I could pay it.
MSI MPG 321URX, 32" 4K OLED. The dream-desk monitor from the YouTube videos I watched when I couldn't afford any of it.
Logitech K380 + MX Master 3. Bought before the Mac, one payday at a time, so something would be ready when the brain of the setup arrived.
Google Pixel 6a. After a decade of flashing Pixel-experience ROMs onto other phones, I finally bought the real thing.
Work Louder Creator Micro. The macropad floating at the top of this page — knobs and glowing keys mapped to the tools I live in. I loved it enough to animate it, twice: once in Figma, frame by frame, and once in the CSS you just scrolled past.
The workspaces
Where the work actually happens: one desk at Porter, one at home. Same rule at both, screens at eye level and nothing on the desk that doesn't earn its place.
The software
- Claude Code: my daily design-and-build partner; this site is made with it.
- Figma: the craft happens here.
- Wispr Flow: I dictate faster than I type.
- CleanShot: screenshots that respect your time.
- Bartender: a tidy menu bar is a tidy mind.
- Arc: the browser as a workspace.
The history
The full lineage runs from the CRT family PC to the MTS MTag 351 (indestructible; I tried), to the Moto G3 (three years, hundreds of ROMs), to the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 (chosen for its XDA community), to here. The story behind it is told properly in About.