Uses

A running list of the tools I actually use. Inspired by uses.tech. If something here is out of date, poke me and I will fix it.

Last updated: July 2026.

Editor and terminal

• Editor: VS Code (with the Claude Code extension for AI-assisted work)
• Terminal: kitty with zsh
• Shell tooling: git, fzf, ripgrep, and the usual Unix toolbelt
• Fonts: JetBrains Mono for code

Machine and OS

• OS: Arch Linux
• Desktop: Intel Core i7-14700K, 64 GB DDR5, 2 TB SSD + 8 TB HDD, NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti

Cloud and DevOps

• Clouds: AWS (primary), Huawei Cloud, Hetzner
• IaC: Terraform, Terragrunt
• Containers and orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
• DevSecOps: Trivy, Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, KMS, IAM least privilege, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub (PCI-DSS / SOC2)

Languages and runtimes

• Daily: Python, Bash, Go, TypeScript
• Also: Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, React

This site

• Built with Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and MDX
• Hosted on Cloudflare
• Comments via Giscus; content also published as plain-Markdown twins for AI agents

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