Uses
The tools I actually use day to day: editor, terminal, development setup, cloud services, and hardware. These are the hills I will die on.
Daily
- Obsidian — second brain, daily notes, everything
- 1Password — secrets and passwords
- Claude Desktop — thinking partner
- Todoist — task management
- Pocketcasts — podcasts
- Standard Notes — encrypted quick notes
Development
- NixOS — reproducible dev environments
- Neovim — editor of choice
- Claude Code — AI-assisted development
- Claude Code Router — model routing for Claude Code
- Tmux — terminal multiplexer
- Alacritty — GPU-accelerated terminal
- Atuin — shell history sync
Cloud Services
- Cloudflare Workers / Durable Objects / Containers — edge compute
- Open Router — LLM routing
- Morph.so — app deployment
- Render — managed hosting
- Netlify — static site hosting (this blog)
Hardware
- M4 Max Mac Studio (2025)
- IBM Thinkpad X1 w/ Linux (2020)
- M2 Mac Mini (2022)
Last updated August 11, 2026