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Uses

Inspired by usesthis.com, this page lists what I work with every day — hardware, editor, CLIs, services. Updated as things change.

Hardware

  • MacBook Pro 14" M3 Pro

    Daily driver. 36 GB, 1 TB.

  • Keychron Q1 Pro

    ISO FR, Brown switches. Quiet enough for an open space.

  • LG 32UN650-W 4K

    Main external display. HDR plays nice with Shiki light/dark.

  • Bose QC45

    ANC headphones — 20h of back-to-back meetings.

  • Nikon Z 9

    Conference and landscape camera. The AWS Summit shot is from this.

Editor & terminal

  • VS Code

    Main editor, GitHub Dark Default theme, Fira Code.

  • Ghostty

    GPU-accelerated terminal, split panes, near-zero config.

  • zsh + Starship

    Fast prompt with inline git info and AWS/K8s context.

  • Claude Code

    Claude as a terminal agent. Runs ~70% of this blog's IaC.

Daily CLIs

  • aws-vault

    AWS credentials stored in the Keychain, isolated per profile.

  • terraform + tflint + tfsec

    Terraform + lint + security scan before every push.

  • gh

    GitHub CLI. The whole PR workflow lives in the terminal.

  • jq / yq

    Bread and butter for chewing on API output.

  • mise

    Unified version manager (Node, Python, Terraform, Go).

Services

  • AWS

    Blog infra: Lambda + CloudFront + S3 + ACM. Personal + client workloads.

  • HCP Terraform

    Backend state and remote runs for side projects.

  • GitHub Actions

    CI/CD for the blog and side projects.

  • Plausible (self-hosted)

    Privacy-friendly analytics, hosted on my own server.

  • Pagefind

    Static client-side search, zero third-party service.