Uses

Spent ten years bouncing between editors. Modal editing won; LazyVim's batteries-included setup spared me another six months of yak-shaving my own config.

• Neovim · LazyVim distribution

  Bound to caps lock. About 600 lines of Lua on top of LazyVim — mostly LSP wiring, a handful of keymaps that ate Vimium's lunch, and a treesitter playground I refuse to remove. Configs versioned in dotfiles.

• VS Code · pair-programming only

  Stays installed because Live Share is unmatched for synchronous pair-programming. Otherwise dormant — open it maybe twice a month.

Ghostty replaced Alacritty mid-2025 — same speed, less config friction. Everything else is rote: fish for ergonomics, tmux for sessions that outlive the SSH connection.

• Ghostty

  Switched from Alacritty when I needed proper accessibility support and tabs that don't lag. The Mitchell-Hashimoto pedigree helped, but it earned the slot on merit.

• fish · shell
• tmux · long-running sessions
• starship · prompt

Five years of Python, four of Go, three of TypeScript — in that order. Rust is the slow burn; reading more than writing for now.

• TypeScript
• Go
• Python
• Rust · learning

  Working through "Programming Rust" (2nd ed) on weekends. Borrow checker still wins more arguments than I do; the patterns are starting to feel less like fighting the compiler and more like a conversation.

• SQL · Postgres dialect

Astro for content-first sites, SvelteKit for app-shaped things, FastAPI for backend prototypes. The common thread is ship-by-default with an escape hatch when you need it.

• Astro
• Vue
• SvelteKit
• FastAPI
• Echo · Go web framework

Cloudflare is the default for anything serverless. AWS Lightsail handles the few workloads that genuinely need a long-running process. Fly.io for the rare regional-edge case.

• Cloudflare · Pages, Workers, R2, D1

  Pages for static. Workers for the contact form and anything edge-y. R2 for blob storage that doesn't bleed me dry on egress. D1 for small projects where Postgres would be overkill.

• AWS Lightsail · stateful workloads
• Fly.io · regional edge

Postgres unless there's a specific reason not to. SQLite for sidecars and embedded use. DuckDB has earned permanent residency in my analytics workflow.

• Postgres

  Self-hosted on the bigger projects, Neon for prototypes, Supabase when I want auth bundled. The query planner is the single most useful thing to learn deeply if you do backend work — it's how I find the half of my mistakes that survive code review.

• SQLite · embedded
• Redis
• DuckDB · analytics

Most of these were brew installs from a Wes Bos talk in 2018 and never left. fzf is the best $0 upgrade most engineers haven't made yet.

• gh
• wrangler
• jq
• fzf

  Bound to ctrl-r for shell history, ctrl-t for file search, and a custom binding that fuzz-finds across my projects directory. Saved me probably 200 hours of tab-completion fatigue.

• ripgrep
• fd
• eza

M3 Pro after years of x86. The HHKB is the only piece of gear I've owned for over five years; I'd buy three if my keyboard travel changed.

• MacBook Pro · M3 Pro, 36 GB
• LG UltraFine 5K · 27"
• HHKB Professional Hybrid · Type-S

  Type-S silenced sliders, 60% layout. Two USB modes paired with my work iMac and personal Mac. Sublimely consistent feel after seven years. I've stopped trying to convince other people.

• Logitech MX Master 3