Tools I actually use.

Hardware

• MacBook Pro 16"
  M3 Max · 48GB · 2TB · the daily driver
• iPad Pro 11"
  portable sketchbook + client calls
• iPhone 15 Pro
  debug device for mobile builds
• LG UltraFine 32"
  single external display — more than one is a trap
• Kinesis Advantage360
  split keyboard — saved my wrists in 2022
• Logitech MX Master 3S
  the mouse that outlasted three Magic Mice

Software

• Neovim
  editor — forever the plan
• Warp
  terminal — better than iTerm, fight me
• Claude Code
  pair programmer and research partner
• TablePlus
  database client for everything SQL
• Proxyman
  network inspector — better than Charles
• Linear
  single source of truth for tasks
• Raycast
  launcher, clipboard history, window manager

Services

• Fly.io
  default hosting for anything with persistent state
• Cloudflare
  CDN, DNS, Workers, everything I don't want to think about
• Neon
  Postgres-as-a-service
• Stripe
  payments, nothing else comes close
• GitHub
  source of truth for code
• Anthropic
  Claude API for reasoning-heavy tasks

Physical

• Moleskine softcover A5
  one per quarter, always
• Lamy Safari fine nib
  the only pen that doesn't leak on planes
• MUJI gel pen 0.38
  backup, always
• Rain chair
  from Herman Miller, worth every penny
• Linn Sondek LP12
  turntable — necessary for thinking