Uses

Mid-migration to Neovim. LazyVim is the new daily driver; Zed and VS Code are still in rotation while the muscle memory catches up, and plain vim covers everything in between.

• LazyVim · Neovim — new editor of choice

  Deliberately moving my daily work here. After years of bare vi(m) on locked-down boxes the keybindings are already in my hands; LazyVim adds the LSPs, fuzzy-finding, and the rest without me hand-rolling a config from zero.

• Zed · still in rotation, handing the reins to Neovim
• 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. Still where my edits on a remote or locked-down box live — no plugins, no dotfiles, just whatever's already on the machine.

Ghostty now, with Oh My Zsh still loaded. Fast, native, gets out of the way.

• Ghostty · terminal of choice
• Oh My Zsh

Six I reach for, and how I feel about each.

• 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
• SQL · enough to make Postgres my full stack

Where the work happens. The site you're reading runs on Hugo + Alpine; the rest show up across client and product work.

• Hugo
• Alpine.js
• HTMX
• Astro
• 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