Uses
The setup I use day to day. Living document; what's here is what actually works, not what's aspirational.
Hardware
- Primary machine
- MacBook with Apple Silicon
- Secondary display
- External monitor for two-column layouts
- Keyboard
- Mechanical keyboard, Spanish layout
- Audio
- Closed-back headphones for long focus sessions
Editor and AI tooling
- Editor
- VS Code with Laravel/Vue extensions
- Code assistant
- Claude Code, GitHub Copilot
- Terminal
- iTerm2 with zsh and oh-my-zsh
- Version manager
- asdf for Node, PHP and related tools
Daily stack
- Backend
- Laravel 11, PHP 8.3, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Frontend
- Vue 3, Inertia.js, Filament for admin, Tailwind
- Infrastructure
- AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare
- Testing
- Pest for PHP, Vitest for JS
Productivity
- Notes and docs
- Notion, Markdown in repos for SDD
- Diagrams
- Excalidraw, Mermaid
- Team comms
- Slack, Loom for async
- Time management
- Calendar blocked into focus blocks
What's open right now
- A tab with Astro docs
- always
- Current product spec
- always
- GitHub Discussions for the SDD template
- always
Gaming loadout
- Primary platform
- PC + console (placeholder — edit in src/pages/en/uses.astro)
- Currently playing
- Elden Ring (DLC), Baldur's Gate 3
- Preferred controller
- DualSense
- Why it matters
- Good game design = good engineering with faster feedback. More at /en/quests
last updated: June 2026