Skip to main content

Uses

I'm a big fan of Omarchy Linux - after trying several operating systems over the years, it's the one that finally feels like home.

A list of tools, software, and hardware I use daily. Inspired by wesbos.com/uses.

Desktop (Primary)

CPU

Intel Core i7-13700K (16-core, 8P + 8E, 30MB L3 cache)

GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (MSI Ventus)

Motherboard

ASRock B760M PG Lightning/D4

RAM

32 GB DDR4

Storage

1TB Seagate FireCuda 530 + 2TB Samsung 990 PRO

Monitors

Dell U3415W (3440x1440 ultrawide) + ViewSonic VP2765 (1920x1080 vertical)

OS

Omarchy Linux (Arch-based)

Desktop

Hyprland (Wayland)

Laptop

Model

Samsung Galaxy Book 2 (NP750XED-KC3UK)

CPU

Intel Core i5-1235U (12th Gen)

RAM

8 GB LPDDR4x

Storage

256 GB SSD

Display

15.6" Full HD (1920x1080)

Graphics

Intel Iris Xe Graphics

OS

Omarchy Linux (Arch-based)

Desktop

Hyprland (Wayland)

Editors & Terminal

PHPStorm

Primary IDE for PHP/Laravel development

Zed

Fast, collaborative code editor

Neovim

For quick edits and config files

Ghostty

Terminal emulator

AI Tools

OpenCode

AI coding assistant with Claude & Ollama models

Claude

Code generation and review

Ollama

Local AI models

GitHub Copilot

Inline code suggestions

Languages & Frameworks

PHP

Primary backend language

Laravel

Go-to PHP framework

Symfony

Enterprise PHP framework

Statamic

Flat-file CMS built on Laravel

Astro

Static site generator (this site!)

JavaScript

Frontend and Node.js

React

Frontend framework

AlpineJS

Lightweight JavaScript framework

TailwindCSS

Styling

CSS

Styling

GraphQL

API query language

JSON REST APIs

API development

Cloud & Infrastructure

20i

Primary hosting (reseller)

AWS

Cloud services

DigitalOcean

VPS and droplets

Hetzner

Cost-effective servers

OVH

Cloud hosting

Civo

Cloud-native Kubernetes

Linode

VPS hosting

Platform.sh

Cloud PaaS

Cloudfleet

Managed Kubernetes

Netlify

Static site hosting

Cloudflare

CDN and DNS

Cloudflare R2

Object storage

DevOps Tools

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Docker

Containerization

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Terraform

Infrastructure as code

Ansible

Configuration management

IaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

Percy

Visual regression testing

Sentry

Error monitoring

Codecov

Code coverage tracking

Database

MySQL

Primary database

PostgreSQL

Alternative database

Microsoft SQL Server

Enterprise databases

MariaDB

MySQL alternative

SQLite

Lightweight local database

Redis

In-memory data store

KeyDB

High-performance Redis fork

Valkey

Redis fork

Other Tools

Git

Version control

Server Administration

Linux server management

Test-driven Development

TDD methodology

Pest

PHP testing framework

PHPUnit

Testing framework

Starship

Terminal prompt

Fastfetch

System info display

btop

System monitor

Lazygit

TUI for Git

Dotfiles

My Hyprland, Neovim & Ghostty configs

Coding Standards

Shared PHP coding standards (Pint, PHPStan)