Uses

The actual toolkit, kept up to date. Inspired by usesthis.com.

Editor & terminal

• Claude Code — primary pair-programming surface. Lives in the terminal alongside the project.
• VS Code — fallback when I need a GUI: GitLens, Astro, Tailwind, ESLint, Prettier, Error Lens.
• ChatGPT — second opinion, code review, fast Q&A.
• zsh with a minimal prompt. No bloat, no slow plugin chains.

Languages & frameworks

• TypeScript for everything I can. Strict mode, no any.
• Astro for content-heavy sites, including this one.
• Hono for Cloudflare Workers APIs.
• PHP 8.1+ for legacy WordPress / WooCommerce work.
• Tailwind CSS v4 for styling. Utility-first beats CSS files I have to navigate.

Infrastructure

• Cloudflare Pages — hosts every static site I run, including this one.
• Cloudflare Workers — APIs, cron jobs, webhook handlers, edge logic.
• Cloudflare D1 — SQLite at the edge. Default DB for new projects.
• Cloudflare R2 — object storage. S3-compatible, no egress fees.
• Cloudflare KV — eventually-consistent key-value for config, sessions, flags.
• Cloudflare Durable Objects — strongly consistent state when KV isn’t enough.
• Cloudflare Queues — async work between Workers.
• Cloudflare Email Routing — free forwarding for the contact addresses I run.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics — privacy-friendly traffic stats. No cookies, no GDPR overhead.

Tooling

• Wrangler CLI — every Cloudflare deploy.
• GitHub — source of truth for code. GitHub Actions for CI.
• Docker + dev containers — every project gets a sandbox.
• claude-sandbox — my dev container template for running Claude Code safely with --dangerously-skip-permissions behind a firewall.
• Linux / WSL — daily driver shell.

AI workflow

• Claude Code as the agent that touches files, runs commands, reads logs.
• MCP servers for everything else: Playwright, Cloudflare, DataForSEO, Avanza, custom MySQL.
• ChatGPT for second opinions, brainstorming, and tasks where I don’t need filesystem access.
• The rule: AI writes the first draft, I read every line.

On the bookshelf

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Kleppmann
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Hunt & Thomas
• A Philosophy of Software Design — Ousterhout

What this list is for

This page is a snapshot, not a recommendation. The right stack is the one you can ship and operate. If something here looks interesting, say hello — happy to compare notes.