What I use

Primary editor. Vim keybindings, minimal extensions.

AI-powered CLI for agentic coding workflows. The reason ds-start exists.

Terminal. Fast, GPU-accelerated, good autocomplete.

Editor font. Clean, legible, no ligatures.

Package manager and runtime. Fast installs, fast tests.

Strict mode, always. No any, no escape hatches.

App Router, server components, Turbopack in dev.

Utility-first. v4 with the new engine.

Copy-paste components. Own your UI code.

Prisma for existing projects, Drizzle for new ones.

Infrastructure as code for AWS. Lambda, SQS, the works.

Hosting and deploys. Preview URLs are a superpower.

Code, issues, PRs, Actions. The usual.

Lambda, SQS, S3, RDS. Production infrastructure.

Issue tracking. Clean, fast, keyboard-driven.

M-series. The one that doesn't burn your lap.

Code on one, browser/terminal on the other.

Because every keystroke should have purpose (and sound).

My own CLI for scaffolding new projects. Dogfooding daily.

Plan-first development. PRD before code, always.

commitlint + commitizen. Every commit tells a story.

Light mode is for screenshots.