Uses

A running list of what I actually reach for day to day, on this machine — not a generic platform-engineer stack list.

Machine & desk

• Laptop: MacBook Pro 14“ (M1 Pro, 2021)
• Keyboard: Magic Keyboard
• Pointer: Magic Trackpad

Shell & terminal

• Shell: zsh with oh-my-zsh and the Powerlevel10k theme
• Terminal: iTerm2
• Version managers: nvm for Node, pyenv for Python
• Dotfiles: managed with chezmoi, kept in git: see dotfiles worth keeping

Editor & AI

• Editor: VS Code
• AI pair: Claude Code, in the terminal
• Notes & writing: Obsidian (this whole site publishes from an Obsidian vault)

Languages

• Python: automation, tooling, scripts
• Go: CLI tools
• Bash: glue, provisioning

CLI & tooling

• Git hosting: gh (GitHub), glab (GitLab)
• Containers & orchestration: Docker, kubectl, Helm
• Cloud CLIs: awscli, gcloud, azure-cli
• 1Password CLI for secrets, jq for JSON, tmux for sessions