What I Use

A curated list of tools, software, and hardware that power my daily workflow.

💻 Hardware

Computer

• MacBook Pro M4 - Apple Silicon is incredible for development
• HP 27-inch Monitor - Simple, reliable external display

Peripherals

• Logitech MX Mechanical Mini - Quiet mechanical keyboard with perfect tactile feedback
• Apple AirPods - Seamless integration with macOS

⚡ Terminal Setup

Terminal Emulator

• Ghostty - Built with Zig, fast, modern and easy to configure
• Past: Wezterm, iTerm2, Warp

Shell & Prompt

• Fish Shell - Auto-suggestions and syntax highlighting out of the box
• Starship - Fast, customizable prompt that works across all shells
• Zsh - Used in the past, still great

🛠️ Editor & Coding

• Neovim 💚 - My main editor for everything now
• VSCode + Vim Extension - Rarely used, but handy for debugging or git conflicts
• OpenCode - AI coding assistant in the terminal, alternative to Claude Code, connects with GitHub Copilot
• Past: IntelliJ, Zed, Helix, Vim

🚀 CLI Tools

Modern CLI tools (mostly Rust 🦀 and Go):

• Zoxide 💚 - Smarter cd, haven't typed full paths in over a year
• Fzf 💚 - Fuzzy finder for everything
• Atuin 💚 - Magical shell history with sync across machines
• Yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust
• Eza - Modern ls with colors
• Fd - Faster, friendlier find
• Ripgrep - Lightning-fast code search
• Bat - cat with syntax highlighting
• Sd - Intuitive sed replacement
• Jq - JSON processor
• Hyperfine - Benchmarking tool
• Bottom - Graphical process/system monitor

🌳 Version Control

• Lazygit 💚 - Terminal UI for Git
• Git Delta - Beautiful diffs with syntax highlighting
• Git Cliff - Automated changelog generator
• Git + Fzf - Interactive branch switching and management

🎨 Window Management

• Aerospace 💚 - Tiling window manager for macOS. Keyboard-driven workspaces: Coding (C), Terminal (T), Browser (B), Music (M)
• Past: Rectangle, Raycast

📦 Package Management

• Nix 💚 - Reproducible package management
• nix-darwin - Nix integration for macOS
• Homebrew - Works alongside Nix via nix-darwin
• Direnv - Auto environment switching per directory

🐳 Containers & Kubernetes

• Docker - Container runtime with Docker Compose and Buildx
• Podman + Podman Desktop - Daemonless alternative
• Kubectl - Kubernetes CLI
• Kind - Local Kubernetes clusters
• Helm - Kubernetes package manager

🗂️ Dotfiles

• Nix 💚 - Now using Nix to manage symlinks
• GNU Stow - Used before switching to Nix

🌐 Browser

• Zen Browser 💚 - Firefox-based, privacy-focused, beautifully designed
• Vimium 💚 - Vim keybindings for the browser, navigate without the mouse
• Past: Arc, Firefox, Chrome, Safari

💚 Languages & Runtimes

• TypeScript - Daily driver for my work
• Go 💚 - Built gozzi with it, love its simplicity
• Zig 💚 - Exciting modern and simple systems language
• Rust - Most of my favorite CLI tools are written in Rust
• Python - Scripting and automation
• Lua - Neovim configuration
• Node.js - Via pnpm and fnm for version management
• UV - Fast Python package installer

🎯 Work Setup

For my job, I work with:

• Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
• CI/CD: GitLab, GitHub Actions
• Scripting: Makefiles, Justfiles, Bash, JS/GO/Python scripting

🎨 Design & Presentation

• Presenterm - Create stunning presentations from Markdown in the terminal
• FFmpeg - Video/audio processing
• ImageMagick - Image manipulation

🔤 Fonts

• Fira Code - Programming ligatures that look beautiful
• Nerd Fonts - Patched fonts with tons of glyphs for terminal icons

💡 Philosophy

I optimize for speed and keyboard-driven workflows:

• Fast: Rust/Zig tools are blazingly fast
• Keyboard-first: Vim keybindings everywhere (editor, browser, window manager)
• Reproducible: Nix for package and dotfile management
• Open Source: Nearly everything here is FOSS

Last updated: November 2025