Uses

This is a small, evolving list of the tools and workflows I use day to day. It is not a full inventory; detailed machine setup and bootstrap notes live in my dotfiles.

Development

• cmux as my main terminal/workspace environment, based on Ghostty. I use it for terminal sessions, split panes, and agent-oriented development workflows.
• Shell and machine setup managed in my dotfiles, mostly around zsh/ash-style workflows. The detailed bootstrap package list lives in the dotfiles repo instead of on this page.
• Neovim
• Svelte for interactive web UI work
• Astro for this site
• TypeScript for most web-facing work
• Go and Python for backend services, scripting, and automation
• Bun for JavaScript/TypeScript package management, local development, and builds
• asdf for runtime version management
• GitHub for source control and public project notes
• Cloudflare Pages for hosting this blog
• CyberChef for quick encoding, decoding, and ad-hoc data transforms
• croc for secure peer-to-peer file transfer between machines

Lab and infrastructure

• Proxmox VE for local virtualization and lab environments
• Docker and Docker Compose for local services
• Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment experiments
• Kali Linux for security testing workflows
• Immich for self-hosted photo management

AI-assisted workflow

• ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Codex for implementation, review, and debugging loops
• AI tools for breaking down requirements, exploring approaches, writing drafts, and checking edge cases
• Spectra for spec-driven development workflows: turning vague ideas into structured proposals, tasks, and implementation plans before coding
• rtk as a CLI proxy that trims LLM token usage on common dev commands
• Small scripts and utilities when a repeated workflow starts to get annoying

Planning

• Linear as a personal project manager
• issue-graph, my self-hosted issue dependency graph viewer (Linear today, more sources later)
• Mermaid for diagrams and technical notes

Notes and writing

• Obsidian as the private note-taking environment
• Notion for structured notes, planning, and shared documents
• Plain Markdown as the long-term content format
• This blog as the public layer for notes that are useful enough to keep outside the vault

What I care about

I tend to prefer tools that make work easier to reason about: fast feedback, plain files, portable data, and workflows that can survive being moved to a different stack later.

Everyday tools

• Arc as my main browser
• Bitwarden for password management
• Setapp for a rotating set of Mac apps without per-app subscriptions
• Easydict for dictionary lookups and translation on macOS
• VoiceInk for local, no-subscription voice-to-text on macOS