Tools I Actually Use
A curated list of development, design, and marketing tools — the ones that earned a permanent spot in my workflow.
$ ls ~/tools/editors/2 entries
● editor
VS Code
Daily driver editor. Extensions for everything, fast enough.
Claude Code
AI pair programmer in the terminal. Wrote most of this site.
$ ls ~/tools/languages/3 entries
● py
Python
Default for scripts, data plumbing, and ML harnesses.
TypeScript
When the thing has to run in a browser or talk to one.
Go
Backend services and CLI tools where I want a static binary.
$ ls ~/tools/cloud_ai/3 entries
● cloud
AWS
Where the production workloads live. S3, Lambda, the usual suspects.
Bedrock
Hosted Claude + other frontier models inside AWS, no key juggling.
Ollama
Local model runner on the homelab GPU. Cheap iteration, private data.
$ ls ~/tools/infra/2 entries
● infra
Terraform
Infrastructure as code. Every AWS resource starts as a .tf file.
Ansible
Config management for the homelab. Idempotent, agentless, boring in a good way.
$ ls ~/tools/ops/1 entries
● ops
Grafana
Dashboards for everything — homelab, AWS, training runs.