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uses

The hardware, software, and AI tooling behind the work.

hardware/

  • MacBook Pro (Apple silicon)

    The daily driver — everything below runs here.

editor & terminal/

  • VS Code

    Primary editor, Claude Code extension always open.

  • Claude Code CLI

    Agentic work: refactors, tests, whole features.

  • Windsurf / Cascade

    Agentic IDE — piloted it at enterprise scale.

  • zsh

    With too many aliases to admit to.

  • JetBrains Mono

    The only font on this site you are not reading right now.

ai toolbox/

  • Claude Code

    Daily driver for agentic engineering.

  • GitHub Copilot

    Inline completions and PR review.

  • MCP servers

    Context7, SequentialThinking, Figma, Memory, Markitdown, chrome-devtools.

  • Skills

    obra/superpowers, mattpocock/skills, and custom-built.

  • Prompt & context engineering

    The discipline that makes the rest of this list work.

stack defaults/

  • TypeScript (strict)

    Non-negotiable.

  • React 19 + Next.js App Router

    Server Components first.

  • Tailwind CSS 4

    CSS-first tokens.

  • MongoDB Atlas

    Via Payload or Prisma, per project.

  • Vitest + React Testing Library

    90%+ coverage, enforced in CI.

  • Playwright

    E2E for the flows that pay the bills.

  • pnpm

    Fast, strict, disk-friendly.

this site's stack/

  • Next.js 16 · React 19 · Payload 3 · Tailwind 4 · Shiki · Vercel

    This site, end to end — and it is open source.

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