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The tools I actually work with, day to day. Inspired by uses.tech.

# hardware

  • MacBook Pro 14″ (M4 Max, 64 GB RAM)daily driver, everything below runs on it

# terminal & shell

  • zshdefault shell, kept close to stock
  • Claude Codeagentic coding in the terminal, where most of my code now starts
  • git + ghversion control and GitHub from the CLI

# ai engineering

  • Claude Code skills & subagentscustom skills, hooks and multi-agent workflows for repeatable engineering tasks
  • MCP serverswiring editors and agents into project-specific tooling
  • Serenasymbol-level code analysis as an MCP layer over every repo
  • Graphifyown tooling: a persistent knowledge graph per repository, queried instead of grepped
  • Hermes AgentNous Research's self-improving agent. Reviewed it on the blog, kept it in the toolbox
  • Ruflo (claude-flow)multi-agent orchestration: swarms, shared memory, hooks

# knowledge

  • ObsidianPARA-organized vault; project notes live next to the code and symlink into it

# backend stack

  • TypeScript + NestJSdefault for new backend services
  • PHP + Symfony15 years in and still the fintech workhorse
  • Java + Spring Bootthe JVM side of the toolbox, enterprise and fintech services
  • GoCLIs and small sharp tools (Driftr)
  • PostgreSQLfirst choice for anything that must not lose data
  • DuckDBin-process analytics: SQL over parquet and CSV without spinning up a warehouse
  • RabbitMQmessaging backbone for event-driven systems

# cloud & infra

  • AWSprimary cloud, where most of the systems I run live
  • Docker + Kuberneteslocal dev and production alike
  • Terraforminfrastructure as code, because clicking through consoles doesn't version
  • Ansibleprovisioning and config management for everything not worth a cluster

# homelab

  • Home server (Proxmox)5×18 TB HDD, 64 GB RAM. VMs, storage and self-hosted services
  • Raspberry Pi cluster (5 nodes)small-scale distributed playground
  • Ubiquiti UniFihome network: switches, APs and gateway under one controller
  • Home Assistantthe house runs on automations too

# this site

  • Next.js + Tailwind CSSApp Router, MDX blog, static output
  • Vercelhosting, previews and analytics