Uses

Dev

  • Claude Code — how most of the code gets written now
  • Terminal.app + zsh — nothing fancy

Stack

  • Ruby on Rails — always on edge. Not figuratively.
  • Hotwire — Turbo + Stimulus for the web, Native for iOS
  • Solid Queue / Cache / Cable — the Rails 8 way
  • PostgreSQL — pgvector for semantic search, Postgres for everything serious
  • Tailwind CSS — the only way I'll write CSS
  • Python — trading systems, CLI tools
  • SQLite — for anything simple (like this site)

Infrastructure

  • Kamal — deployment from the terminal, don't think about it again
  • Hetzner — cheap, fast, gets the job done
  • MacBook Pro 16" — 2021, M1 Max, 64GB