What I use

Hardware

The honest answer right now: a Mac on the desk and an iPhone in my pocket. Exact models and desk gear coming soon.

Mac apps

The tiny utilities are always the keepers.

• Ice

  A free, open source menu bar manager that keeps my menu bar from turning into chaos. I wrote about it.

• Scroll Reverser

  Lets the mouse wheel and the trackpad scroll in different directions. This should 100% be a native feature. I wrote about it.

• UI Actions

  Drives any Mac app from Shortcuts by clicking menus and pressing buttons for you. I wrote about it.

• Setapp

  One subscription, a pile of good Mac apps. My picks: Bartender 5, CleanShot X, PixelSnap 2, Sip, and iStat Menus. Heads up, that link is an affiliate link. I wrote about it.

iPhone + Shortcuts

• Apple Shortcuts

  Where most of my automation lives, on iPhone and Mac both.

• RoutineHub

  Where I publish my Shortcuts, including SCSettings. That link goes straight to my profile. I wrote about it.

• Darksun

  A Dark Sky inspired weather app, and the forecast app I actually open. I wrote about it.

Dev + AI tools

• Claude Code

  Anthropic's coding agent. It rebuilt this entire site with me, blog posts about that are on the way.

• GitHub

  Where the code lives, this site included.

• Obsidian

  Plain Markdown notes. I am still early on this one, but it is sticking.

This site's stack

• Astro

  The static site framework this whole site is built on. I wrote about it.

• Tailwind CSS

  Utility classes all the way down, v4 with the CSS first config.

• MDX

  Markdown for posts, with components where a post needs something extra.

• Netlify

  Builds and hosts the site. Branch deploys made the rebuild painless.

• @jdevalk/astro-seo-graph

  The Yoast founder's SEO toolkit: JSON-LD, llms.txt, and validators that fail my build when I mess up.