Hardware

• Laptop — MacBook (primary dev machine)
• External display — 27" 4K, wall-mounted arm
• Keyboard — low-profile mechanical, split layout
• Audio — studio headphones for deep work, speakers otherwise

Editor & terminal

• Cursor — daily driver, AI-native editing
• Claude Code — terminal-native agent for larger multi-file edits
• VS Code — fallback / extension development
• JetBrains Rider — when a .NET solution gets serious
• iTerm2 with zsh and Starship
• JetBrains Mono — always, at size 13

AI & automation

• Claude (Sonnet / Opus) — architecture, code review, long-form thinking
• OpenAI (GPT-4 / GPT-5) — general reasoning, image + voice
• Gemini — quick lookups, multimodal tasks
• MCP servers — custom tool integrations for agents
• n8n — workflow automation for light backends

Development

• .NET 8 / C# — preferred backend
• Angular + TypeScript — preferred enterprise frontend
• Next.js 15 / React 19 — personal projects and this site
• SvelteKit — lightweight side-projects and internal tools
• Chrome extensions — small utilities that live where I work
• Git + GitHub / Azure DevOps

Backends & databases

• SQL Server at work, Postgres for everything else
• Supabase — Postgres, auth, storage, edge functions for side projects
• Xano — 5+ years; my go-to no-code backend for APIs, auth, and data-heavy products

Productivity

• Obsidian — personal knowledge base
• Linear — issue tracking (for side projects)
• Raycast — launcher and clipboard manager
• 1Password — secrets and SSO

Deployment

• Azure — enterprise work
• AWS — client projects and serverless bits
• Digital Ocean — droplets for low-fuss side projects
• Vercel — this site and Next.js apps
• Cloudflare — DNS and workers

Heavily inspired by the uses.tech movement. Updated as tools get replaced or my setup drifts.