Multi-machine development setup

Recently, I’ve been using two MacBooks for personal software development, which has a few people questioning why. The simple answer is that I already had a MacBook Air sitting around, and its become a useful travel laptop, that allows me to take a minimal development and writing setup with me. Right now, I’m making use of an M1 Pro MacBook Pro and an M1 MacBook Air. I ended up with these two machines when I was trying to move away from my Intel MacBook Pro, a machine I’ve had for close to 10 years, which was clearly starting to show its age in 2023. Initially, I bought the M1 MacBook Air as a temporary machine until I could get a refurbished M1 Pro MacBook Pro, as my Intel MacBook was incredibly slow at the time. I bought the M1 MacBook Air from a seller on eBay and discovered that it developed a screen fault during the delivery process. The machine had a single line of dead pixels going down the left side of the screen. After talking to the seller who wasn’t really keen on taking it…