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What I use

Tools, software, and hardware that I use daily. Inspired by uses.tech.

Editor & Terminal

VS Code — Primary editor. Vim keybindings, minimal extensions.
Claude Code — AI-powered CLI for agentic coding workflows. The reason ds-start exists.
Warp — Terminal. Fast, GPU-accelerated, good autocomplete.
Geist Mono — Editor font. Clean, legible, no ligatures.

Dev Tools

Bun — Package manager and runtime. Fast installs, fast tests.
TypeScript — Strict mode, always. No any, no escape hatches.
Next.js — App Router, server components, Turbopack in dev.
Tailwind CSS 4 — Utility-first. v4 with the new engine.
shadcn/ui — Copy-paste components. Own your UI code.
Prisma / Drizzle — Prisma for existing projects, Drizzle for new ones.
SST — Infrastructure as code for AWS. Lambda, SQS, the works.

Services

Vercel — Hosting and deploys. Preview URLs are a superpower.
GitHub — Code, issues, PRs, Actions. The usual.
AWS — Lambda, SQS, S3, RDS. Production infrastructure.

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Linear — Issue tracking. Clean, fast, keyboard-driven.

Hardware

MacBook Pro — M-series. The one that doesn't burn your lap.
Dual monitors — Code on one, browser/terminal on the other.
Mechanical keyboard — Because every keystroke should have purpose (and sound).

Workflow

ds-start (mine) — My own CLI for scaffolding new projects. Dogfooding daily.
/start-prd → /start-work — Plan-first development. PRD before code, always.
Conventional commits — commitlint + commitizen. Every commit tells a story.
Dark theme — Light mode is for screenshots.

Last updated: April 2026. Subject to change based on whatever shiny new tool I discover this week.