Day in the Life

I’m not the kind of person who has a neatly curated list of everything I own. People ask what I use and I usually have to pause for a second because I just… use things? I don’t really think about it.

The /uses convention is a cute way to answer the question without having to be too organized about it. So here’s a ramble through the stuff I touch on any given day~!

Last updated: June 2026

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Morning

Waking up

I’m a stupidly chaotic person and I don’t have a set wake-up time. But I always leave myself enough space to get ready properly. The first thing I touch is my phone: a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6.

Folding phones are stupid and impractical and I love mine. I missed being able to put a dangling charm on a phone… the 90s had that right and I’m glad it’s back.

• phone: Galaxy Z Flip 6 (was Pixel 6 Pro) — Tue, Oct 21, 2025

Tea

Then tea. Always tea. I’m a self-proclaimed tea snob and I mean it… I have a system, I have opinions, and I have very good reasons for all of them.

I brew in a Loukoum teapot from Mariage Freres. It’s heavy and it looks the part… there’s something ceremonial about it, in that minimal zen kind of way, and I like that the ritual starts before the water even boils. I also have a Lyric from TWG… the glass and the elegant curves are genuinely beautiful. Drinking from it blisses me out. The kettle is a Stagg EKG and it’s perfect.

I have an eclectic collection of random cups, but my favourite is the Tasse A Thé from Mariage Freres. It’s a pain to clean but it’s SUCH a good vibe.

My favourite tea is Pu Erh Dor by Mariage Freres… it smells like fresh rain sometimes. I’ve also been drinking their LOVE SONG TEA (black tea with almond milk and rose, extremely cute) and some things from their Sakura, Sakura! collection.

I also drink a lot from TWG and Fortnum & Mason, plus whatever I find when I travel. Depending on mood I’ll steep in extras:

• chrysanthemum flowers (my favourite)
• hibiscus leaves
• jasmine flowers
• rose petals

Coffee’s yucky :P

Bath & skincare

Yes I have a whole thing.

• Lush bath bombs, salt, bubble bath
• some Aesop stuff
• setting oil spray and curly hair oil for my long curly hair

AM

1. CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser
2. Hada Labo Tokyo Lotion No 1 Super Hydrator
3. Vitamin C (usually La Roche Posay)
4. CeraVe Moisturizing Lotion
5. La Roche Posay Anthelios UVMUNE 400 SPF 50+

PM

1. The Ordinary Squalane Cleanser
2. CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser
3. The Ordinary Glycolic Acid 7% Toner
4. The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5
5. The Ordinary 0.2% Retinol in Squalane
6. CeraVe Moisturizing Cream
7. Lush After Dinner Mint lip scrub
8. Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask (mint choco)

Yes the retinol every day is Bad Actually™ but I do it anyway like a baka :)

Perfume

After the bath, I layer perfumes as part of my daily aromatherapy. Current rotation:

House	Favorites
Tom Ford	Jasmin Rouge, Rose Prick, Oud Wood, Lost Cherry
Jo Malone	Rose & White Musk, English Pear & Freesia, Beach Blossom
YSL	Opium

I also light incense before I sit down. I like very traditional incense, the kind that reminds me of a Buddhist temple… woody and a little smoky and grounding. It’s a small ritual that makes the whole day feel more intentional somehow~!

At the Desk

The setup

I sit down, open openclaw (my personal assistant, more on that later), catch up on email and Discord, and then I’m in it.

My desk is minimal. I can’t stand more than one screen, and if the resolution and refresh rate aren’t high I get fussy about it.

Thing	What I Use
Desk	Fully Jarvis in walnut
Monitor	ASUS ROG Strix XG27UCS, 4K at 160 Hz
Monitor Arm	Herman Miller Flo
Chair	Herman Miller Aeron (armless, by choice)
Webcam	Elgato Facecam Pro
Mic	Blue Yeti
Speakers	Audioengine A2+
Headphones	Sony WH-1000XM4
Earbuds	Google Pixel Buds Pro

A cute beige and grey wool deskmat ties it all together. Plus a fancy teapot and some tea :3

• speakers: Audioengine A2+ (were Logitech Z906) — Mar 2025
• earbuds: Google Pixel Buds Pro (were AirPods Pro) — Jan 2025

Keyboard

I have a small collection and swap between boards, but my daily driver right now is a custom build. I had a Keychron Q60 from a group buy ages ago, but some switches were broken. So I took the PCB out, put it in a new case from AliExpress, grabbed some cute switches, and assembled the whole thing.

• Case: Rule60 V3 in polycarbonate
• Switches: Cherry MX Blossom, 35 cN linear; featherlight, silky-smooth, barely-there resistance. The sakura colour is really cute and I like my typing whisper-soft.
• Layout: HHKB

I have a thing for HHKBs. I hit a consistent 130 WPM on one and like 90 on anything else. I don’t know why. It just works for me.

The rest of the collection drifts between my desk and friends’ desks. Favorites:

• an HHKB Pro 2 in beige with JIS caps
• an HHKB Hybrid Type-S in white with blank caps
• an F62 Kishsaver in beige

My holy grail is the Norbaforce Mark II Ghost of Christmas Future Edition, but there’s no chance I’m ever getting one of those. A custom polycarbonate HHKB will have to do for now.

• keyboard: new custom build (Rule60 V3, Cherry MX Blossom, HHKB layout)

Mouse

I’m not picky, but I have settled on exactly two.

• Lofree Touch: daily driver. Beige, cute, colour-matches my keyboards. I’m a sucker for the vibe.
• MX Master 3S: travel. Objectively the better mouse, but too heavy and grey and I don’t like it as much.

Working

Terminal

I don’t actually care too much about my terminal emulator… but I’m currently using Ghostty. I mainly care about being able to configure the padding; I like a lot of padding. Otherwise as long as it’s fast enough I’m happy.

Thing	What I Use
Emulator	Ghostty
Font	Maple Mono NF
Colorscheme	Rose Pine everywhere: Neovim, Zellij, Ghostty, even git diffs
Shell	nushell with atuin, starship, direnv, and zoxide
Multiplexer	zellij with a custom Rose Pine theme and per-project layouts

nushell is the first shell I’ve used that feels like it actually understands the data it’s passing around, not just strings. Everything has shape and structure internally and it makes pipelines feel… intentional. Like the shell knows what each thing is and can do smarter things with it. I don’t think I can go back.

• shell: nushell replaced zsh (carried over atuin, starship, direnv, zoxide)
• terminal: Ghostty replaced wezterm
• font: Maple Mono NF replaced tamsyn
• colorscheme: Rose Pine on everything, not just Neovim anymore

Editor

Neovim for everything. My full config lives here.

Plugin	What For
Lazy	plugin manager
Mason	LSP management
Telescope + fzf	fuzzy finding
git-signs	git blame in the gutter
neotree	file tree
copilot.vim	AI completions

I don’t really use splits, and I’ve mostly abandoned tabs. I hop between buffers with :Telescope or LSP goto-definition.

Lately I’ve been feeling very strong emotions about switching to Doom Emacs. I’ve installed it. I’ve configured evil mode. My muscle memory still types vim, but I’m closer and closer to switching.

I should be honest: I don’t use text editors that much anymore because I’m mainly reviewing LLM-generated code. But when I do, it’s vim.

• editor: installed Doom Emacs, experimenting

LLM Agents

opencode is my main agent. I swap models depending on the task.

Model	What For
DeepSeek V4 Pro	daily driver for writing code; fast, sharp, dirt cheap
DeepSeek V4 Flash	when I need speed above everything; unbelievably fast
GPT 5.5	planning and complex analysis; slow and careful, a workhorse
Kimi K2.6	prose and writing; better at sounding human

The pipeline to get here was a journey:

• Anthropic Claude — $200/mo. Then they became an evil company and started locking down OpenCode and OpenClaw users. I am still genuinely outraged about this.
• GPT 5.3 — the closest replacement at the time. Slow and horrible as a personal assistant.
• GPT 5.5 — became my workhorse for planning and long complex work.
• Kimi K2.6 — used almost entirely for non-programming. Actually decent at code too on side projects.
• DeepSeek V4 Pro & Flash — won me over completely. Unbelievably fast, genuinely capable, dirt cheap.

Long-term I want to wean myself off the big US providers. Open-weight self-hostable models are getting close to being good enough for daily use and I want to switch the moment they are. We’re almost there~!!

I run multiple agent sessions in parallel across different projects. worktrunk (wt) spins up isolated git worktrees for each session so agents never collide.

wt switch -c -x opencode feat creates a worktree, checks out a branch, and drops me into an agent session in one go.

• LLM agents: new section; opencode + worktrunk replaced ad-hoc shell sessions
• models: DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash as daily drivers (was GPT 5.3, was Anthropic Claude)

OpenClaw

openclaw runs DeepSeek V4 Pro as my personal assistant. It handles a lot of the stuff I’d otherwise lose track of:

• stays on top of Slack messages and summarizes what I missed
• consolidates my TODO list based on age, importance, and who’s asking
• manages my calendar across multiple emails
• hits news feeds and subscribes to things like GitHub issue progress
• can interact with web browsers and my zellij terminal panes

Basically it can do anything I need it to do, and it does it before I even sit down at my desk.

The Machines

Every machine I own runs NixOS and borrows a name from Madoka Magica. My nix-config repo bootstraps all of them from a single flake.

• madoka — my workstation and gaming rig. AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, NVIDIA RTX 3080, 96 GB RAM. GNOME desktop. This is where everything happens.
• iroha — my laptop. Intel Lunar Lake, Intel Arc Graphics, 32 GB RAM. An XPS 13 running GNOME. Leaves the house with me.
• kyubey — my server. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, NVIDIA GTX 1080, 96 GB RAM. Headless, running Plex, Jellyfin, Minecraft, and a ZFS pool.
• homura — a WSL2 instance on an ARM64 Surface Pro (Snapdragon X Elite), 32 GB RAM. TUI-only with clipboard integration to the Windows host. My weird little Windows-Nix hybrid.

I’m getting an AYN Thor soon and I’m honestly super excited about it. It’s going to be the thing I play through my entire decades-old game backlog on. And I’ll be able to code from it. A handheld that runs a real OS and can compile Elixir? Yes please.

• kyubey now runs Plex and Jellyfin on a ZFS pool.
• iroha replaced a MacBook Pro M4 with an Intel Lunar Lake XPS 13.
• homura moved from an XPS 13 to ARM64 Surface Pro over WSL2.
• sayaka, mami, and sakura were retired: a Surface Pro, Steam Deck, and Pixel 6 Pro respectively.

After Hours

Gaming

When I’m not working, madoka doubles as my gaming rig. I’m replaying Dot Hack GU Remastered right now. It was one of the first JRPGs I ever beat, but I saved too eagerly after the final boss when I was a kid because it was 5am and I needed to sleep.

Turned off the machine, woke up to a corrupted save. To this day I’ve refused to look up the final cutscenes or what the various character romance endings are like. I’ll get there this time ;w;

Reading & media

I mostly listen through Audible; for manga I use Tachiyomi. Currently working through:

Book	Author
Convenience Store Woman	Sayaka Murata
The Expanse series (re-read)	James S. A. Corey
Gyo	Junji Ito

Music while I work:

• anime OSTs
• Touhou music
• 8-bit video game arranges Stuff that fills the room without demanding attention. I particularly like MEGAZUN, which is a Touhou arrange album that sounds like it uses the 8-bit Mega Man soundfont. Very specific niche, but I feel technical listening to it :)

kyubey runs Plex and Jellyfin for media streaming around the house. I keep a Minecraft server on it too.

Photography

I’ve started trying to take more pictures. Mostly it’s an excuse to notice things I’d otherwise walk past~! You can find what I’ve shot so far on Instagram.

Other hobbies

I collect Dark Magician Girl merch. She was the original waifu and I will not be taking questions at this time.

I want to pick up something I can do with my hands that isn’t typing:

• knitting or crochet
• learning to make cosplay clothes
• 3D printing

Web Stuff & Services

Outside the terminal, the only app I live in is a browser. I use Zen Browser: Firefox-based, sidebar tabs, and actually usable without a pile of extensions.

Thing	What I Use
Browser	Zen
Search	Kagi
Hosting	fly.io or Hetzner
Tailnet	Tailscale

• browser: Zen replaced qutebrowser; Firefox-based, sidebar tabs, vim keybindings via extension
• qutebrowser: retired; rendering quirks finally got to me

Subscriptions

I keep subscriptions minimal and self-host everything else. What I actually pay for:

What	Services
Media	YouTube Premium, Spotify
Chat	Discord Nitro
Games	Humble Choice

Everything else (file sharing, media streaming, git hosting, CI) runs on my own hardware or a VPS.

Backups

I don’t back up my data.

Nix recreates my whole environment from scratch in ten minutes. If something matters, it’s in a git repo. If not, I can lose it. This is a philosophy and I’m sticking to it.