setup

Uses

The tools that survive daily use — the frontend stack I ship in, the pieces that build this site, and the AI-run second brain behind it. A living list, updated as the setup evolves.

this site: Astro Tailwind Base UI MDX Pages

frontend

01

The stack I ship in every day.

  • React 19 + TypeScript the day-job stack — typed components end to end
  • Tailwind CSS v4 utility-first styling, design tokens via @theme
  • shadcn/ui on Base UI component registry, themed to my own violet tokens
  • Vite the bundler under everything — fast HMR
  • Next.js app-router React for the console — SSR to the edge
  • TanStack Start, Query, Router, Table, Form — data, routing and tables
  • Zustand small, unceremonious client state
  • Radix + Base UI headless primitives under the component kit
  • Zod + Axios schema-validated data over typed HTTP
  • Cloudflare Workers where the apps deploy — edge runtime
  • Turborepo + pnpm the monorepo that holds every app and the UI kit
  • Voximplant + WebRTC voice AI and in-app video — the call center and video calling

daily drivers

02

The editor, API and comms tools I live in.

this site

03

What this page you’re reading is built with — static, zero JS by default.

  • Astro static output, ships zero JS unless a component asks for it
  • MDX blog posts — markdown with components when needed
  • GitHub Pages + Actions push to main → build → deploy, no manual step
  • satori → resvg build-time OG images seeded from the knowledge-graph motif
  • Shiki dual-theme syntax highlighting in posts

knowledge & ai

04

The second brain, and what keeps it current.

  • Obsidian the vault — plain markdown, git-synced
  • Claude Code operates the vault and builds with me daily
  • MCP how AI clients reach the vault as tools
  • Python vault tooling — health checks, retrieval evals

models & agents

05

What I reach for across models, providers and agent tooling.

  • Claude my daily driver for building and writing
  • Many providers OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Copilot, OpenRouter — matched to the task
  • Ollama local models on my own box — Llama, Gemma
  • Agent CLIs Claude Code, OpenCode, Kilo Code, OpenCLAW and friends
  • MCP + skills tools, agent skills and workflows wired into daily work
  • n8n (self-hosted) automation on my own DigitalOcean box
  • Context engineering the real skill — the right context in front of the model, every time

workflow

06

How it all runs — the habits, not the hardware.

  • Git-synced vault one knowledge base, every surface, synced over git
  • AI-first notes written for a machine to read first — preamble, links, sources
  • Scheduled agents jobs that maintain the vault on a cadence — nothing deleted, only added
  • Mobile capture quick thoughts on the go via a Telegram bot, processed later
  • Retrieval eval search quality is a number I can move, not a vibe