What I’m doing all my development work on. For those whom are interested how much can be accomplished with a properly optimized stack.

“Its not the plane, it’s the pilot” ~ Goose in Top Gun: Maverick

Mobile Office

Fit into a Cabin Metz – Memphis hand luggage backpack.

• Apple MacBook Pro 16″ (late 2019 model):  i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB nvme SSD
  MacOS Tahoe with Claude Desktop + Claude Code + Claude Coworker, and other tools like UI Vision
• Accessory Cable kit
• Anker Prime 140W GaN PSU
• Ugreen laptop stand

Home Office (in NL)

Note: 2nd half of 2026 will be spending 181 days per year at co-living tribes in Europe. Hope there will be atleast dual or triple screen facilities.

Main Computers

• Apple iMac 27″ 5K (late 2015 model): i5, 32GB RAM, 128GB SSD with an 27” second screen
  MacOS Sonoma running OrbStack (docker replacement) with n8n, Playwright MCP, OpenClaw.
• Fujitsu Espresso: i5-4590T, 6GB RAM, 120GB SATA SSD
  Windows 10 (EOL october 2025) test- & video tutorials rig towards OnlineComputerScan.com project for examplle
• HP EliteBook 2570P: i5-3320m, 16GB RAM, 500GB Crucial SATA SSD + 1TB HDD in caddy, 
  EFI dualboot: Windows 11 + MacOS Mojave 10.14.6
• intel NUC: need to look-up specs!

Portable Devices

These switch backpack(s) and locations often. Always within reach.

• Apple iPad (9th generation. 2021 model)
• Apple iPhone SE (2nd Generation, 2020 model). To be replaced by iPhone 17 in July!
• Apple Watch SE (2nd Generation, 2022 model)

Periphals + i/O

Primary

• AOC 28″ 4K monitor
• Apple wireless Keyboard
• HP mouse USB2
• Brand? Dual 2.5″/3.5″ HDD dock USB3.0

Secondary

• Apple Magic mouse v1 USB
• HP printer
• HP Keyboard USB2 (for emergency use on local devices)
• Macally keyboard (purchased in 2004 together with Mac Mini G4)

Shelved (used occasionally)

• Acer C720P Chromebook; 4GB RAM, 128GB PCIe SSD
  Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS LXDE + Chrome
• Apple iMac 21.5″ (2011 model): i5?, 16GB RAM, 500GB HDD
  MacOS High Sierra
• Apple MacBook 12″ (2016 model)
  MacOS Catalina? Failures: Cracked the screen, and battery is dead. Great for external monitor appliance still.
• Windows 11 @ 2nd HP EliteBook 2570P, i5, 8GB RAM, 240GB SATA SSD

Hosted in the cloud

I used to host at Digital Ocean, but in 2015 moved almost everything to Vultr. In 2025 added excellent price/performance of Contabo.

In order of importance.

Vultr (2 instances)

• 2018 – Cloud Compute – High Frequency: 1 vCore Xeon 3.8GHz (Skylake), 1GB RAM, 25GB SATA SSD storage, 1gbit uplink
  Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with Lighttpd webserver (leftover of Pi-hole v5) with PHP 8.2
• 2024 – Cloud Compute – High Performance: 2x vCore Xeon 2.9GHz (Cascadelake), 2GB RAM, 60GB NVMe SSD, 1Gbit I/O, 10Gbit backbone
  Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with Litespeed webserver powered by CyberPanel with PHP 7.4 upto 8.5

Contabo

Purchased in 2025. Just had an upgrade in June 2026. Indexing new specs.

RackNerd

• 2025 – KVM512 instance: 1x vCore Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 700 Mbps I/O
  Alma 8.1 (Cerulean Leopard) running experimental Connect United node software

Wishlist (in order of importance)

• Apple Mac Mini M4
• Apple MacBook Neo (green) for on the road. Fits 20L hand luggage.