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title: "What I use"
author: "Mohammad Abu Mattar"
canonical: https://mkabumattar.com/uses
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# Uses

The hardware, editor, terminal, and software I use day to day for cloud, DevOps, and development work.

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Uses

Uses

A running list of the tools I actually use. Inspired by [uses.tech](https://uses.tech). If something here is out of date, poke me and I will fix it.

_Last updated: July 2026._

## [Editor and terminal](#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](#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](#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](#languages-and-runtimes)

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

## [This site](#this-site)

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