Uses

MacBook Pro 14"

M-series, 32 GB RAM. Daily driver for everything.

LG UltraFine 4K · 27"

Standing-desk daily setup.

Keychron K3 (low profile, brown switches)

Mechanical but quiet enough for calls.

Logitech MX Master 3S

One mouse, four devices. Silent clicks.

Sony WH-1000XM5

Noise-cancelling for focus time.

Shure MV7 USB

Calls and the occasional podcast gig.

VS Code + Claude Code

Default editor with AI assistance where it pays.

Ghostty

Fast GPU-accelerated terminal.

fish

Clean autocompletion without plugin chaos.

lazygit

Branches and rebases in 30 seconds, not 3 minutes.

mise (asdf successor)

Per-project tool versions — node, pnpm, python, all of it.

TypeScript

Default for almost everything. Type safety without compiler ping-pong.

Astro · Angular · Next.js

Frontends, depending on project profile.

Supabase · PostgreSQL

Data and auth when the setup should stay lean.

MQTT (Mosquitto, EMQX)

Device communication for IoT projects.

Tailwind CSS

CSS that’s still maintainable in five years.

Hetzner Cloud

EU hosting, predictable pricing.

Coolify

Heroku ergonomics on your own hardware. Open source.

Cloudflare

DNS, CDN, R2 for backups. Generous free tier.

Uptime Kuma

Monitoring you actually understand.

Geist · Geist Mono

Sans + mono, self-hosted (including on this site).

Figma

Wireframes, simple mockups.

Excalidraw

Whiteboard diagrams for workshops.

Hillel Wayne · buttondown

On software-engineering practice, honestly.

Dan Luu

Deep technical analysis without hype.

rauchg.com (Guillermo Rauch)

Product thinking in a web-engineering context.

O’Reilly Designing Data-Intensive Applications

When everything has to make sense.