Shareable files in Instinct Starting today, your Instinct can create shareable Files: private or public interactive pages that you can share with others. Whenever it’s appropriate, Instinct will create a File to help you compare options, work through a plan, or share what you’ve put together. For example: - Apartment hunting: compare places you’ve saved or toured, with photos, floor plans, rent, commute times, and your notes in one place. - Art gallery crawl: a route through exhibitions that match your interests, with opening hours, background on the artists, and a few cafes to stop by along the way. - Dinner with friends: a guest list, recipes scaled for eight, and an ingredient list you can check off as you go. - A weekend away: an itinerary built around your arrival time, with places to visit and details you can open along the way. - Group trip expenses: enter shared costs, choose who participated, and see who owes what. You can keep a File private or share it with anyone who has the link, including people who don’t use Instinct. Files are rolling to all Instinct users today. To get started, you can ask your Instinct to do the research for your next trip.

How to make every Mac, server & cloud worker you own feel like one computer: ====== NETWORKING ====== - Tailscale: Connects all your machines into one private network. SSH into your home desktop from anywhere with no port forwarding and nothing exposed publicly - Thunderbolt Bridge: Connects two nearby Macs directly through a Thunderbolt cable. You get tens of Gbps and sub-ms latency without buying networking gear - 2.5/10GbE: The wired alternative when Thunderbolt isn’t practical. Use it when normal gigabit networking becomes the bottleneck - Cloudflare Tunnel: Gives a local service a public URL without opening a port on your router. Useful for websites, APIs and dashboards other people need to reach - ngrok: Creates a temporary public URL in seconds. Perfect for testing webhooks against something running locally ====== REMOTE ACCESS ====== - SSH + `~/.ssh/config`: Lets you create short names and reusable settings for remote machines. Type `ssh studio` instead of remembering usernames, IP addresses and ports - `ControlMaster auto`: Keeps one SSH connection open and reuses it. New terminals connect instantly instead of negotiating a fresh session every time - Mosh: SSH that survives your Wi-Fi dropping. Close the laptop, open it on a train, switch networks and the same terminal session reconnects - tmux: Keeps programs running after you disconnect. Start a long agent job, close your laptop and reconnect to it later - tmux-resurrect + continuum: Saves and restores your tmux sessions after the machine itself reboots - VS Code / Cursor Remote SSH: The editor runs on your laptop while the code, terminal and language server run on the remote machine. It feels local without syncing files - code-server: Runs VS Code inside a browser. Useful when you need to work from an iPad or a computer without your development setup - macOS Screen Sharing: Built-in remote control between Macs. On the same network it’s fast enough for normal desktop work - Sunshine + Moonlight: Streams a remote desktop using game-streaming technology. Use it when you need much lower latency than normal screen sharing ====== SERVING ====== - Tailscale Serve: Gives a local service a private HTTPS URL that only devices on your Tailscale network can open - Tailscale Funnel: Takes that private service and makes it reachable from the public internet. Useful for receiving webhooks on a home machine - Caddy: A web server and reverse proxy that gets HTTPS certificates automatically. Two lines of config, real certificates, no Let’s Encrypt homework - Cloudflare Tunnel: Better when you want public traffic to pass through Cloudflare before reaching your machine ====== FILES ====== - Git: Tracks changes, understands conflicts and lets each agent work on a separate branch. Use Git for code that agents edit, not a generic sync tool - Git worktrees: Opens multiple branches from the same repository as separate folders. Every agent gets its own workspace without cloning the repo again - Jujutsu (`jj`): A Git-compatible version-control system designed around easier rebasing, undoing and concurrent work. Worth trying when many agents produce branches at once - SMB: Shares a folder from one machine so another can mount it like a local drive. The easiest answer for two Macs on the same network - NFS: The same basic idea as SMB, with more setup and generally better performance - Mutagen: Continuously mirrors a local project to a remote machine while respecting ignored files. Use it when you want to edit locally but run remotely - Syncthing: Automatically syncs folders directly between machines. Great for notes, assets and scratch files - Don’t use Syncthing for code multiple agents edit. It syncs files but doesn’t understand branches or conflicts - rsync: Copies files or folders once, usually over SSH. Fast, scriptable and already installed almost everywhere - rclone: rsync for cloud storage. Moves files between your machines and S3, R2, B2, Google Drive and dozens of other services - pnpm: Stores each package once and hardlinks it into every project. Fourteen worktrees can share one copy instead of downloading fourteen ====== ENVIRONMENT ====== - mise: Installs and switches Node, Python, Go and Ruby versions per project. Replaces nvm, pyenv, rbenv and asdf with one fast tool - direnv: Loads the correct environment variables the moment you enter a folder, then unloads them when you leave - OrbStack: A drop-in Docker Desktop replacement for Mac. The same Docker commands with a fraction of the RAM and battery usage - Homebrew + Brewfile: Records the apps and CLI tools installed on your Mac. A new machine can recreate the setup with one command - Devcontainers: Defines the development environment in code. Anyone opening the project gets the same operating system packages, runtimes and tools - Nix / devenv: Reproduces an environment extremely precisely across machines. Powerful, but only worth the learning curve when that level of determinism matters ====== SECRETS ====== - 1Password CLI: Injects secrets into a command at runtime. Your `.env` becomes a template you can safely commit because the real values stay in 1Password - `op run`: Starts a command with the required secrets available only to that process. Nothing sensitive needs to be copied into plaintext files - 1Password Service Accounts: Give headless servers access to specific vaults without attaching them to your personal login - SOPS + age: Encrypts secret files before they enter Git. The repository stores ciphertext and approved machines decrypt it at runtime - Tailscale SSH: Uses your Tailscale identity to authorize SSH access. You stop copying and rotating public keys across every machine ====== TERMINAL ====== - Atuin: Your shell history, synced and searchable across every machine. That command from last Tuesday on the server is available on your laptop - zoxide: Learns which folders you use. Type `z api` instead of `cd ../../../services/api` - fzf: Adds fuzzy search to almost anything. Use it for files, command history, Git branches, processes and SSH hosts - ripgrep (`rg`): Searches an entire codebase in milliseconds and skips files in `.gitignore` automatically - fd: `find` with syntax you can actually remember. Type `fd config` instead of assembling a collection of flags - bat: `cat` with syntax highlighting, line numbers and Git changes - dust: Shows which folders are consuming disk space as a readable chart instead of a wall of numbers - lazygit: A full Git interface inside the terminal. Stage individual lines, inspect diffs, rebase, cherry-pick and resolve conflicts visually - btop: A readable live view of CPU, memory, disks, networks and running processes ====== CONSISTENCY ====== - just: One file containing every project command. `just dev` means the same thing on every machine and every teammate’s laptop - chezmoi: Keeps your dotfiles in Git and adapts them per machine. You get the same shell, aliases and settings across macOS and Linux - Brewfile + mise + chezmoi + just: Together these recreate your installed tools, runtime versions, personal configuration and project commands ====== ISOLATION ====== - Containers: Give each workload its own filesystem, dependencies and permissions. One broken agent can’t interfere with everything else on the machine - One container per client: An agent cannot read another client’s files if those files were never mounted into its container - Colima: A free, CLI-only way to run Docker containers on Mac - Podman: Runs containers without a permanent root-level daemon. Useful when stronger rootless isolation matters - Tart: Creates and manages macOS and Linux virtual machines on Apple Silicon - UTM / Parallels: Full desktop virtual machines for workloads that need a complete graphical operating system - Firecracker: Starts tiny virtual machines in under a second. Useful when you’re building a platform that needs an isolated machine for every agent run ====== AGENT ORCHESTRATION ====== - tmux + Git worktrees: The simplest fleet manager. Every agent gets a terminal, branch and folder you can inspect directly - Claude Code hooks: Run commands automatically before or after specific Claude Code events. Useful for validation, formatting, notifications and cleanup - Claude Code subagents: Hand focused tasks to separate agents without manually opening another terminal for each one - Claude Agent SDK: Starts, steers and streams agent sessions from your own code. Use it when a terminal workflow needs to become part of a product - Inngest / Trigger .dev: Turns agent runs into durable jobs. If a process crashes, the job can retry instead of disappearing with the terminal - BullMQ / Graphile Worker: Adds a straightforward job queue backed by Redis or Postgres - launchd: Starts Mac workers after reboot and restarts them when they crash - systemd: The Linux equivalent of launchd - Temporal: Stores every step of a long workflow so it can resume after failures. Powerful, but unnecessary until durable execution becomes a real problem ====== RENTED COMPUTE ====== - Hetzner dedicated: Cheap, persistent Linux machines with lots of CPU and RAM. Good for workers that run all day - Hetzner Server Auction: Older dedicated servers sold for less. Useful when price matters more than having current hardware - DigitalOcean / Vultr / Linode: More expensive per GB, but nearby regions can make interactive SSH and remote editing feel much faster - Fly .io: Small machines that start quickly and can shut down when idle. Good for temporary workers - GitHub Actions self-hosted runners: Sends CI and batch jobs to hardware you already own instead of GitHub’s machines - Depot: Runs builds remotely and shares the cache between machines. Useful when Docker or application builds become the bottleneck - Modal / RunPod / Lambda: Rent GPUs by the hour instead of owning hardware that sits idle - MacStadium / Scaleway Apple Silicon: Rent real Macs remotely. Only worth it when the workload genuinely requires macOS ====== BROWSER AUTOMATION ====== - Playwright + `storageState`: Saves cookies and login state to a file that can move between machines. Much safer and more portable than syncing an entire Chrome profile - Puppeteer: A smaller Chrome-focused alternative when you don’t need Playwright’s multi-browser support - Chrome DevTools MCP: Lets an agent inspect and control a real Chrome session through developer tools - browser-use: Gives agents a higher-level way to navigate websites, fill forms and complete browser tasks - Browserbase / Browserless / Steel: Hosts and manages browsers for you. Useful when one local Chrome instance becomes fifty concurrent sessions - Residential proxies: Routes browser traffic through consumer IP addresses. Use them when websites block traffic from cloud servers ====== SAFETY ====== - restic + Backblaze B2: Encrypted, deduplicated, automatic offsite backups for roughly $6/TB/month. You’ll need it exactly once - Time Machine: Keeps local versions of your Mac files and makes accidental deletion easy to undo. Necessary, but not enough by itself - Carbon Copy Cloner / SuperDuper: Creates a bootable copy of your drive so a dead SSD doesn’t mean rebuilding the machine from zero - Netdata: One command installs a full metrics dashboard. Finally see which process has been eating your RAM - `memory_pressure`: Shows whether your Mac is actually running out of usable memory - `vm_stat`: Shows detailed memory usage and paging activity - `sysctl vm.swapusage`: Shows exactly how much SSD space macOS is using as emergency memory - asitop: Shows Apple Silicon CPU clusters, GPU usage, power consumption and temperatures - Uptime Kuma: Checks whether your machines and services are online and sends an alert when they aren’t - Grafana + Prometheus: Stores metrics over time and turns them into dashboards and alerts. Worth adding once you have several machines A backup isn’t real because the command succeeded It’s real when you’ve restored from it successfully ====== THE 80/20 STACK ====== Tailscale SSH + Mosh + tmux Git worktrees SMB 1Password CLI mise + direnv OrbStack pnpm just + chezmoi restic + B2 Netdata Atuin + zoxide + fzf Start here Add another tool only when you can clearly explain what problem it solves