What I Use ⚡

Primary driver for software engineering, Bazel builds, and everyday productivity.

Just enough space to use a single window. Meant to be used as an extended display.

Satisfying tactile feedback for long coding and writing sessions.

Very light weight with excellent tracking.

Go for high-throughput microservices; Bazel & Gazelle for monorepo build performance.

VS Code with custom keymaps for web & Go.

Fast, GPU-accelerated terminal paired with Zsh.

Deploying edge apps and fast static sites (including nikhildev.com).

Fender American Standard Special Stratocaster for soulful blues & rock tones; Custom self built all-purpose strat copy; Schecter Banshee Elite with Floyd Rose.

Ultra-low latency guitar input directly into the computer and DAW.

For clean playback, jam tracks, and audio recording.

For clean playback, jam tracks, loud enough to accompany a band at lower volumes and bedroom practice.

Running Docker containers, home automation, and local automated backups.

Private mesh network (Tailscale) and self-hosted instances on home server.