Uses

A running list of what I actually use. Updated when something changes, not on a schedule.

Editor and terminal

• VS Code for most things, with Vim keybindings.
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA whenever I am deep in a Java or Spring codebase — the refactoring tools still have no real equivalent.
• Windows Terminal with PowerShell 7, plus WSL2 for anything that expects a POSIX environment.
• JetBrains Mono at 14px, which is also the monospace face on this site.

Languages I reach for first

• Python for anything data-shaped, scripted, or that needs to exist by the end of the afternoon.
• Java / Spring Boot for services that need to be maintained by a team.
• TypeScript everywhere on the front end. Untyped JavaScript at any real size is a false economy.
• Bash / C-shell for the glue, kept short enough to still be readable in a year.

Infrastructure

• Azure — AKS, Azure PostgreSQL, Key Vault, Container Registry.
• Kubernetes and Docker, with Harbor for registry.
• Jenkins and GitHub Actions for pipelines. GitHub Actions when I get to choose.
• Terraform for anything I expect to build more than once.

Everything else

• Git from the command line, and git add -p more than any other command.
• PostgreSQL as the default database until something proves it should not be.
• Obsidian for notes, in plain markdown so they outlive the app.
• Astro for this site — see the colophon.