My digital
workshop.

The real workhorse. Handles multiple iOS and Android emulators alongside the web stack without flinching. Silent under load.

The road machine. After years on Intel, I still have not heard its fans turn on, not even during long builds on launch week.

Twin curved panels. One for editor and terminals, one for runtime, docs and inspectors. No context switching across windows.

Gestures beat keyboard shortcuts for window management. It lets me navigate macOS like an instrument instead of a tool.

Primary device for testing mobile flows, capturing on-the-go feedback and running production ticket checks at events. The Pro Max battery gets me through launch days.

Android counterpart for QA. Keeps me honest about cross-platform behaviour, especially for React Native work and push notification testing on mid-range hardware.

My default pair programmer. Long-running agentic sessions across the full repo: refactors, migrations, spec work and browser-verified UI passes. It earned the top of this list.

An assistant for developing, reviewing and refining code in my workflow.

Still the sharpest tool for anything PHP. Refactors, debugging and database inspection in one place. Worth every penny.

Fast, focused and beautifully opinionated. The collaborative editor I reach for on JS, TypeScript, Rust and Astro when I want the computer to disappear.

A terminal that finally treats commands as blocks. Sessions, blocks, AI autocomplete and fast navigation. It replaced my muscle memory for iTerm in a week.

Syncs hosts, keys and snippets across machines. My command bridge to staging, production and anything running behind a bastion.

The one tool I open before running any migration. Fast introspection, scripting and a decent visual explain plan.

Source of truth for interfaces and design systems. I work in Figma for anything that needs to be reviewed, handed off or re-used.

Not only for code. I use it to generate full editorial layouts, iterate on typography scales and verify the result in a real browser before shipping.

An assistant for developing, reviewing and refining code in my workflow.

A tool for exploring interface ideas and working on design proposals.

When I need a concrete starting point for a marketing surface or a rarely-used internal tool, v0 produces something I can edit inside half an hour.

Clean, searchable, and lives where the rest of our workspace is. Less noise than Slack when the team is small.

Specs, runbooks, onboarding material and founding notes. A shared brain that lets us ramp new engineers in days, not weeks.

Where the community side of Ticketero lives: organisers, partners, early users. Voice channels make ad-hoc debugging a joy.

Still the default for vendor and partner channels. Good for push, not so good for long-form thinking.