Setup

The tools, languages and services I actually use day to day. Inspired by uses.tech .

Stack at a glance

React Astro Tailwind AWS Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana

Editor & terminal

VS Code Main editor. This is where most of the time goes.
Ghostty Terminal on macOS. Fast, and it gets out of the way.
Termius For remote SSH work.

Languages & frameworks

TypeScript Default for almost everything. The types earn their keep.
Python / FastAPI APIs and anything agentic. Light and quick to start.
React Interactive UIs, mostly for the sake of the ecosystem.
Astro This site runs on it. Static, fast, very little JS.
Tailwind CSS Styling without switching files to do it.

Agentic AI

Bedrock GDPR-workable model hosting inside the EU.
LangChain & LangGraph Orchestration and agent graphs for LLM pipelines.
Milvus Vector database with sparse and dense indexes, for RAG and search.

Dev tools

Docker Containers for everything, locally and in the cloud.
Kubernetes Orchestration once it gets serious.
GitHub Actions CI/CD as code, in the same repo as the thing it builds.

Infrastructure & observability

AWS The cloud most of this runs on.
Prometheus Metrics. Specifically, the ones I actually look at.
Grafana Dashboards on top of those metrics.

Design & notes

Figma UI sketches and mockups. Usually the starting point.
Notion Notes and documentation.

Browser

Chrome DevTools, plus cross-browser checks.