/uses

What I use

Hardware, software, and tools I rely on.

Hardware

machine

MacBook Air M2

  • 16 GB Ram
  • 512 GB SSD
monitor

A basic ass LG monitor I got from Best Buy

keyboard

Meko Blink

60% layout to save space

Cherry MX Red Switches

audio

Apple Airpods Max


Apple Airpods Pro

Editor & Terminal

editor

PHPStorm

PSR-12 based standards. Dark Theme


Pycharm

PEP 8 based standards. Dark Theme

terminal

Ghostty

Oh My Zsh. Oh My Zsh "crunch" theme.

font

JetBrains Mono

Ligatures on. Clean, readable, great for long sessions.

Software

browser

Safari

1Password. Instapaper.

notes

Obsidian

Perfect for brain dumping, structured notes, off the cuff notes, and keeping track of tasks.

api

RapidAPI

Great for visualizing data in varoius ways.

Proxyman

Great for intercepting web and app traffic locally.

db

TablePlus

Perfect for both MySQL and Postgres.

standalone

Reeder

RSS reader

NordVPN

VPN Client for iOS and MacOS

Stack

lang

PHP

Primary language. Laravel for full-stack, standalone for tooling.

lang

Python

Secondary language. Mostly for AWS CDK and small lambdas.

infra

Digital Ocean

Basic configurations for Laravel applications

Vercel

Used to host this site.

Physical Items

backpack

Bellroy

  • Transit Workpack 20L
notebook

Baronfig

  • Confidant Notebook
pen

Grafton

  • Everyman EDC 0.7mm