Uses

My setup

The tools I reach for every day. No affiliate links, no sponsorships — just what actually works.

Hardware

MacBook Pro 14" M3 Pro Daily driver — fast builds, silent fans

Dell UltraSharp 27" 4K External monitor — sharp text, accurate color

Keychron K2 V2 Mechanical keyboard — Gateron Brown switches

Sony WH-1000XM5 Noise-cancelling headphones — essential for deep work

Claude Code Primary AI coding assistant — thinks with me, not for me

Cursor AI-powered editor for heavy refactoring sessions

VS Code Workhorse editor, with Neovim for config files

Ghostty Terminal emulator — fast, minimal, GPU-accelerated

zsh + Oh My Zsh Shell of choice

Catppuccin Mocha Theme everywhere — warm and legible

JetBrains Mono Editor font — ligatures on

Claude (Anthropic) Primary AI assistant for code review, architecture discussions, and complex problem-solving

Claude Code Terminal-based AI coding assistant for building and refactoring

Cursor AI-powered editor for rapid prototyping and pair programming

GitHub Copilot Inline code completion and suggestions

Docker Local environments, everything runs in containers

TablePlus Postgres and Redis GUI

Bruno API testing — open source, git-friendly

Linear Task tracking that gets out of the way

Obsidian Notes, writing, and linking ideas

Raycast Launcher, snippets, and clipboard history

Vercel Hosting this site and side projects

Neon Serverless Postgres — branches like git

Upstash Redis for rate limiting and caching

Cloudflare DNS, R2 storage, and edge workers

Resend Transactional email that just works

GitHub Code, CI/CD, and Actions

Anthropic Claude API for AI features in production

Astro 6 Framework — zero JS on static pages

TypeScript End-to-end type safety

Tailwind CSS v4 Styling with @theme tokens

Mithila II Design system — inspired by 2,000-year-old Madhubani painting from Bihar

Motion Animations via React islands

Vercel Deployment and edge functions