What I use.

Primary editor. Claude Code for agentic work, Cursor when I want hands-on edits.

Default terminal. Fast, GPU-rendered, no nonsense.

Default shell. Minimal prompt with git status.

Quick edits over SSH and config files.

Default for anything that talks to a browser or runs on Node.

Anything CPU-bound, native, or where predictable latency matters. Powers Kite + Coin.

Scripts, data work, ML experiments.

Network services where I want a small binary and no GC tuning.

Every content/marketing site I run (Fittour, HonestMoney, this site, the product landings).

Inside Tauri shells. Pure rendering — Rust does the actual work.

Default for desktop products. Rust backend + web frontend, signed cross-platform releases.

Backends with structure. Powers No-Brainer.

When I want minimal ceremony. Powers the shared waitlist service + Kite backend.

One shared cluster across the polyrepo. Schemaless wins for fast iteration.

When relationships matter more than speed-to-ship.

Caching, queues, rate limits. Lives next to the NestJS apps.

Hosts almost everything. Docker-based deploys, zero infrastructure overhead.

Object storage. BYOK pattern in No-Brainer.

DNS, CDN, edge cache for the content sites.

Default package manager across the polyrepo.

Local-stack reproducibility, especially for No-Brainer's full pipeline.

Kite's signed cross-platform release pipeline runs here.

I dogfood my own API client. If a request can't be hand-crafted in Kite, that's a bug for me to fix.

Primary machine. Everything builds here.

Vertical scroll real estate matters more than horizontal.

Plain Apple peripherals. Tools, not jewelry.

Where the back catalogue lives. New essays land here.

For client work. Personal projects live in plain markdown plans.

Strategy docs, plans, growth-plan — everything lives in flat .md files versioned in git.