Tech Stack & What I Use

Consider this a continously-updated list of the tools, apps, and hardware I use for my work and personal projects.

Photo collection of computers

Tech

I’m a Mac fanboy, so this is being typed on a Mac mini. When traveling a compact MacBook Air accompanies me.

Software

Most of the current projects are written in Javascript/ Typescript (running on Node.js , Bun , or Deno ). Currently also very interested and learning the ins and outs of Rust and Go . For frontend stuff I like using Vue.js along with Vite for bundling.

For code editing/ IDE I’m currently very happy with Visual Studio Code and my own color theme.

Raycast is a super helpful tool for Mac, which I use for quick access to all kinds of things. The plugin to search NPM or Can I Use are must-haves. The GitHub plugin also saves a lot of time.

For Browsers I mostly use Arc , a customizable Chromium browser on desktop and Safari on mobile.

Search on all browsers has been replaced by DuckDuckGo . I like their privacy policy and the search results are less cluttered and cleaner. Toggling location-based search results is also a nice feature.

When understanding or searching for more than just a link or tool Perplexity has been a fantastic tool. It’s a search engine that understands natural language and can answer questions in a more human way (with links and credits for the results).

1Password , Figma , Affinity , Warp CLI , Apple Music , mymind , Proton (both Mail and VPN ) are also frequent daily apps.

Obsidian is a fantastic tool to organize notes and thoughts in Markdown. I like their approach over Notion, since files are local (and therefore owned! ) and can easily be transferred or synced.

After the shutdown of Tweetbot (rest in peace), I switched over to Ivory and my own Mastodon instance beoriginal.social .

Work and development-wise I’m a big fan of Scaleway , with their EU-based public cloud platform. For some applications fly.io is also a great choice. For all the other stuff Google Cloud Platform and AWS are the usual options. CDN is mostly Bunny or Fastly . Terraform is great to make infrastructure reproducible and abstract bad cloud UIs.

Monitoring tech deployments works best with Datadog and Better Uptime .

dns0.eu is currently my go-to European public DNS provider.

Principles

For SWR Audio Lab we also wrote a set of Engineering Principles to guide our development work and decisions.

EDC

Stuff that I also always carry with me (besides iPhone and the usual stuff) include a [Whoop] fitness and recovery tracker, a pair of AirPods Pro, a Leatherman multitool, and Freitag wallet.

Podcasts

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Some of my favorites are:

Do you have more great recommendations? Please let me know !

This Website

While switching over from Jekyll to Hugo , I also rewrote most of it to make it as minimal and fast as possible. Most pages are written in pure Markdown with custom attributes. The layout is some bare-bones HTML structure with custom elements for pages and the blog.

The style is based on Tailwind CSS , with some pre-processing to bundle the Inter font using Vite . The final static assets are served through Bunny CDN . The source code is publicly hosted on GitHub .

Kudos

This page is heavily inspired by manuelmoreale.com/uses and others [1] [2] .