setup
What I use.
The machine, the editor and the tools every project on this site was built with.
Machine
- MacBook Pro, Apple M5 Pro, 24 GB
macOS 26. Everything below runs here.
Editor & terminal
- Visual Studio Code
- Warp
terminal
- zsh
with Homebrew and nvm (Node 20)
- Claude Code and Codex
one or the other, depending on the task
Day to day
- Git and the GitHub CLI
- Docker Desktop
local Postgres and services
- Postman
poking at APIs
- Google Chrome
DevTools, Lighthouse
- Figma
before any UI gets built
Ship it with
Default stack
- Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind
for anything with a UI
- Django or Spring Boot
when the backend is the product
- PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ
data, cache, queues
- Playwright
end-to-end tests and the screenshots on this site