Uses — nordicops.dev

Desk

Laptop — Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 11)

Runs Fedora as the daily driver. I keep a Windows partition purely for the rare client who insists on a Teams call with screen share that behaves better there.

Monitor — Dell U2723QE, 27" 4K

One external monitor, used in portrait for logs and terminals, with the laptop screen handling everything else.

Keyboard — Keychron Q1 Pro

Brown switches. I switched from a membrane keyboard four years ago and have not looked back.

Chair — Håg Capisco

The saddle-style seat that looks strange and works. Bought used from a furniture liquidation sale in Tampere.

Terminal & shell

Shell — zsh + Starship prompt

Minimal Starship config showing directory, git branch, and exit code. Nothing fancier than that.

Terminal — WezTerm

GPU-accelerated, configurable in Lua, and it handles tmux sessions without the rendering glitches I used to get elsewhere.

Multiplexer — tmux

Same five-pane layout for almost every SSH session: logs, shell, htop, and two scratch panes.

Editor — Neovim

LazyVim as a base config, trimmed down. For anything that needs a full IDE I drop into VS Code instead.

Homelab

The homelab exists to give me a place to test things before they touch a client's infrastructure, and honestly, to break things on purpose. It lives in a closet, which is less impressive than it sounds.

Server — HP EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini ×2

Two small-form-factor machines running Proxmox, mainly because rack-mount gear is loud and this is a one-bedroom flat in Tampere.

Storage — Debian 12 + ZFS, 4×4TB in RAIDZ1

Covered in detail in this post. Backed up off-site via a relative's NAS in Jyväskylä.

Networking — UniFi Dream Machine + 3 access points

VLAN-segmented: a guest network, an IoT network, and a "things I don't fully trust" network for anything still in testing.

Container host — Docker + Portainer for visibility

Around 30 containers running at any given time: monitoring stack, a Gitea instance, Pi-hole, and whatever I'm testing for a client that week.

Software I'd pay for again

Tool	Used for
Tailscale	Mesh VPN between every client environment and the homelab, zero port forwarding
Grafana + Prometheus	Metrics dashboards for every server I manage, client or personal
restic	Encrypted, deduplicated backups to a Hetzner Storage Box
1Password	Credentials, SSH key passphrases, and shared vaults for client access

What's actually on my desk and in my rack.

Desk

Terminal & shell

Homelab

Software I'd pay for again