Your machines · Mac mini · five minutes

Add a Mac mini to your workspace

The Mac on your desk is already signed into the sites, has the toolchain installed, and stays on. Adding it takes one command, and from then on any scene you pin to it runs there.

A Mac mini on a desk with a keyboard, from above

What you need

  • A Mac that stays on. A mini is the obvious one; a laptop works but goes away when it sleeps.
  • macOS 14 or newer.
  • Nothing else. Each scene gets a directory of its own on the Mac and runs as you; a container per scene is next.

Install and pair

$ curl -fsSL https://daslab.run/node | sh
installed daslab 1.1.62 for arm64
service enabled and started

  pairing code  Q8HM-4TZR
  open          daslab.run/pair

waiting to be paired…

Type the code at daslab.run/pair on your phone and pick the workspace. The node installs a launch agent so it starts when you log in. The tile is named after the Mac; give it a name on the pair page if the Mac's own is something like Mirkos-Mac-mini-2.

paired with workspace labhaus as desk-mini
publishing: arm64 · 10 cores · 192.168.178.0/24 · camera
ready

Run a scene on it

Drag the tile into a scene, or say run this scene on desk-mini. Things that are only good on a real machine with your sign-ins and your disk:

Open the supplier portal in a browser on the mini and download this month's invoices.
Run the test suite in ~/code/app and tell me what fails.
Export the last project in Final Cut and put the file in the scene.
Run a local model over these ten PDFs and summarise each.

Give a port an address next

Same as on the Pi: a port the scene opens is on your network today; an https address of its own, served through the node's connection and gated by the tile's layer, is next.

Take it out

daslab node leave, or delete the tile. rm /usr/local/bin/daslab if you want the command gone too.

The other machines

Raspberry PiJetson →ESP32 → How nodes work →