2 posts tagged with "WSL2"

A working Conduction workstation needs a specific combination of tools: Claude Code, Docker, Nextcloud running locally, Playwright, a handful of global Claude settings and hooks, and a working gh CLI. New developers often lose their first day (or two) to setup puzzles we've already solved internally. This six-part series gets you from a clean laptop to a working workstation in one evening. Part 1 — this one — answers the question what do you install, and why before you start clicking through installers.

This is the part with the most install commands. WSL2, Docker Desktop, VS Code with the right extensions, the language runtimes (Node, PHP, Composer), the CLIs (gh, OpenSpec), and the Playwright Chromium binary. By the end of Part 2 you'll have a working dev workstation — just without Claude Code wired up yet. That's Part 3.