Uses

Three editors, three jobs. Zed runs the day, VS Code shows up when the lifting gets heavy, plain vim covers everything in between.

• Zed · editor of choice
• VS Code · when the work needs the heavier IDE
• Vim · plain vim — not neovim

  Four years of government work in environments where neovim wasn't an option made bare vi(m) native. Now it's where 90% of my quick edits live — no plugins, no dotfiles, just whatever's already on the box.

Default zsh with Oh My Zsh. Basic, lovely, gets out of the way.

• Oh My Zsh

Seven I reach for. Each one earned the slot for a different reason.

• Go · what I think in
• Rust · in an ongoing debate with the compiler
• Python · there's a library for everything
• TypeScript · unavoidable, but needed
• Tailwind · the tool for modern web design
• PHP · mostly for Laravel
• SQL · enough to make Postgres my full stack

Where the work happens. There are others I touch; these are the ones I keep coming back to.

• Astro
• Vue
• FastAPI
• Laravel

Cloudflare won me over fast. AWS is the muscle memory from years of DevOps.

• Cloudflare · I love this so much
• AWS · my comfort zone

Default to Postgres. Justify everything else.

• Postgres · for serious projects (and for things that aren't serious)
• SQLite · when you absolutely know Postgres is a bad idea
• Redis · replaceable by Postgres, but worth the time saved

Four daily. brew is the one getting away from me.

• git · like every developer
• gh · debating leaving this but it's free
• wrangler · loving this more by the day
• brew · too many caskets

Apple ecosystem mostly. One paper notebook running the rest.

• Mac M2 Mini
• Alienware monitor · 27"
• Apple Magic Keyboard
• Apple Magic Trackpad
• Analogue notebook · runs my life