Uses

Claude Code

Primary IDE for production work and the factory. Custom hooks, scoped settings per project, and a multi-mode dispatcher that picks the right model for the task.

Claude Opus 4.8

Long-context refactors, codebase-wide audits, and the heavy reasoning on architecture decisions. Long context is genuinely load-bearing — it lets me hold an entire site’s source in head.

Claude Sonnet 5

Day-to-day implementation tasks. Lower cost, plenty of capability for most React / Next.js / TypeScript editing.

OpenAI gpt-4o-mini

Production chat endpoints in production apps. Cheap, fast, good enough at well-scoped RAG-grounded tasks.

Firecrawl

Site mapping, content scraping, and pre-build research. Indispensable when starting a new client engagement.

Playwright / chrome-devtools

Headless QA, accessibility tree inspection, Lighthouse audits, screenshot diffs across viewports.

Sharp Image

Per-project image pipelines — AVIF/WebP conversion, background removal, dimension extraction.

GitHub

PR review automation, commit-message generation, cross-repo issue search. The factory’s default for VCS work.

Vercel + Vercel CLI

Deploy + inspect + log retrieval. Production deploys happen via `pnpm release` which chains `vercel --prod && pnpm verify-canonical`.

Next.js 16 (App Router)

Default framework. App Router, Server Components, Tailwind 4 with the CSS-first @theme block, strict TypeScript with noUncheckedIndexedAccess where the codebase tolerates it.

React 19

Server Components by default, "use client" only for the interactive pieces.

TypeScript 5 (strict)

Strict mode everywhere. Zod for runtime validation at every boundary.

Tailwind CSS 4

CSS-first config in globals.css via the @theme block. No JS-side config files for tokens.

Vercel

Hosting + edge functions + analytics + speed insights. Orphan-branch lock pattern for manual production promotion. Domain-level Cloudflare in front for a couple of the production sites.

Supabase

Auth + Postgres for production apps that need real auth/RBAC (My Place Lounge member portal).

Stripe

Payments and member subscriptions when the app needs them.

Sanity

Headless CMS for the small number of production sites where the owner edits content.

Resend

Transactional email — lead notifications, chat transcripts, automatic intake confirmations.

Web3Forms

Simple contact-form backend on marketing sites that don’t need a full transactional-email stack.

n8n

Cross-project orchestration — scheduled jobs, webhooks, content pipelines. Hosted self-managed.

IndexNow

Auto-ping Bing / Yandex / Naver / Seznam on every `pnpm release`. Bing’s index also powers Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT search.

Lighthouse + axe

Pre-merge perf + a11y gates. Targets: mobile Perf 95+, A11y 100, SEO 100.

Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster

Indexing health, URL inspection, structured-data validation per project.

Custom desktop: Ryzen 9 9950X + 96GB DDR5 + RTX 5070 Ti

Primary machine — dev server, Claude Code sessions, concurrent agents, image pipelines, and local model inference (Ollama on the 5070 Ti).

Windows laptop (i7-10875H, 64GB, RTX 2060)

Tailscale-networked overflow node — runs small local models (≤7B) so bulk AI work doesn’t block the main GPU.