What I use

A snapshot of the tools, hardware, and services I reach for most days. Inspired by uses.tech.

Editor & Shell

  • Editor: Zed for day-to-day work and Vim for quick edits.
  • Terminal: Warp.
  • Shell: zsh.

Hardware

  • Main machine: MacBook Pro M4 Pro.
  • Keyboard: low-profile mechanical.
  • Headphones: Sony WH-CH720N (blue) noise-cancelling, wireless.
  • External display: Samsung U32R590CWU 32" UHD 4K curved.

Cloud & Observability

  • Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux.
  • Service mesh & networking: Istio, Linkerd, Cilium.
  • Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane.
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton.
  • Telemetry: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, Jaeger, Fluent Bit.
  • Policy & runtime security: OPA, Kyverno, Falco, cert-manager.
  • Supply chain & scanning: Trivy, SonarQube, OWASP guidance, Cosign, Sigstore.
  • Identity & authZ: Keycloak, OpenFGA.
  • Backup & DR: Velero, Sentinel.
  • Registry & functions: Harbor, Knative.

AI Tooling

  • Coding assistant: Claude Code in the terminal for pair-programming and refactors.
  • Chat: Claude for long-form thinking and writing review.
  • Local models: Ollama runs for offline experimentation.

This list is opinionated and evolves slowly — see /now for what I'm focused on this month.

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