Prabal Tripathi

Gadgets

• MacBook Air M4Work machine. Lasts a full day unplugged.
• iPhone 17Mostly the camera.
• Apple wired EarPodsWired, so there is nothing to charge or pair.
• Keychron K2Mechanical, wireless, Mac layout by default.
• Anker Nano 65WOne small charger for the laptop and phone.
• Lamicall laptop standGets the screen up to eye level.

Software I use daily

• GhosttyTerminal.
• Claude CodePair programming in the terminal. A lot of my debugging starts here.
• Wispr FlowDictation. Quicker than typing when I am thinking out a problem.
• DockerLocal databases, services and stacks.
• Lens + kubectlLens to look around a cluster, kubectl once I know what I need.
• ArcBrowser. Spaces keep work separate from everything else.

Currently into

• CricketWeekends, whenever there are enough people.
• BadmintonThe one I am actually improving at.
• BoxingAt Cult Fitness.
• SwimmingAlso at Cult Fitness.

Books I love

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson.
• The AlchemistPaulo Coelho.
• The India WayS. Jaishankar. On how India approaches the rest of the world.

A short shelf, and growing. I am not a fast reader yet.