Stack / Uses

Tools I use

2026-08-08

This page lists my own daily production tooling. Behind most choices is a “boring tech” preference — I pick things because I know them, not because they are new.

Hardware

MacBook M4 Pro → daily development
PC [AMD Ryzen 9 5950X / Corsair 3600MHz 64GB (4x16GB) / 1TB Samsung 960EVO / 4TB Kingston KC3000 NVMe / MSI RTX 3060 Ti] → heavy development
Home NAS [Raspberry Pi 5 8GB / 4x4TB WD Disk] → backup | sync | archive
Logitech MX Master 3S + Keychron K3 Max Gateron + 3x Viewsonic XG2405
VPN Server [2CPU / 2GB RAM / 30GB SSD / 1 Gbit] → secure internet access
8xVPS → hosting (distributed per project)

Editor & terminal

PhpStorm → for PHP/Laravel/Symfony projects.
WebStorm → for JavaScript/TypeScript projects.
IntelliJ IDEA → for Java/Spring Boot projects.
Goland → for Go projects.
PyCharm → for Python projects.
VS Code → general purpose.
Warp + zsh | Powershell.
Termius | Putty | MobaXterm → SSH.
DBGate | DataGrip → database client.
Claude Code | Gemini | Codex → AI-assisted engineering workflow.

Language & framework

PHP [Codeigniter | Laravel | Symfony] → primary backend.
Java + Spring Boot → secondary backend.
Go [Gin | Fiber] → primary microservice | consumer.
Python [Django | Flask] → rapid development / scripting.
JavaScript [TypeScript | React | React Native] → frontend and mobile.
Bash → operations scripts.

Data

PostgreSQL → primary database.
MySQL | MariaDB → secondary database.
MongoDB → document database.
ElasticSearch → search and analytics.
pgBouncer → connection pooling.
pgBackRest → backup & PITR.
Redis → cache + queue + lock + session.

Messaging

Kafka → large, high-volume job queues.
RabbitMQ → long-running job queues.
Redis Streams → low-latency internal events.

Web server

Nginx
Supervisor → long-running workers [PHP | Go | Java].

Container & deployment

Docker → dev environment parity.
GitHub Actions | Jenkins → CI/CD.
Deployment: zero-downtime symlink swap.

This site

Astro → static generation.
Tailwind CSS v4, MDX, TypeScript.
Cloudflare Pages → hosting.
Deliberately no database, CMS, or user management.