Engineer & Technical Curator
Tools
I use a number of tools to get my work done. I also recommend a lot of these tools to my clients:
- Laravel - obvs
- Claude Code - my LLM of choice (for now)
- Statamic - the CMS I used to make this site and what everyone should be using already (built on Laravel ofc)
- Sublime Text - yes, I still use it! It's crazy fast for chucking a folder at and writing some code
- Polyscope - for when I'm working on more complex apps/projects
- Tower - for working with git - it's a beautiful, powerful GUI for git
- ScreenStudio - for screen recording
- Fathom Analytics - the best privacy-protecting alternative to Google Analytics
- Laravel Forge - how I manage my servers
- OhDear - excellent uptime monitoring
- Mailcoach - straightforward email campaigns and transactional email management
- TablePlus - a really nice Mac database client
- Cloudflare - if you don't, we should chat
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Recent Writing
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