What I'm using.

Dev

• Claude Code — the main coding loop
• Codex — the other half of the loop
• Grok Bot — the new obsession
• Cursor — still around. Referral link — sign up through it and you get 50% off your first month, I get a credit.
• Stash — personal context I refer back to
• Terminal.app + zsh

The overnight curiosity loop from June is still a story.

Stack

• Ruby on Rails — always on edge
• Python — for the trading systems and CLI tools
• PostgreSQL — primary database, pgvector for semantic search
• SQLite — for anything simple (like this site)
• Tailwind CSS — the only way I'll write CSS
• Hotwire — Turbo + Stimulus
• Hotwire Native — shipped an iOS app with it

Infrastructure

• Kamal — deployment
• Hetzner — self-hosted
• AWS — EC2 for the trading systems
• Sidekiq + Redis — background jobs

Hardware

• MacBook Pro 16" — 2021, M1 Max, 64GB