What I use.
The tools behind the products. Techies always ask, so here it is.
Desk
- MacBook Pro 16-inch with Apple's M1 Pro chip.
Tools
- Claude Code: my pair programmer for design, code and review.
- Cursor for editing.
- Ghostty and Warp for the terminal.
- Docker for running things locally the way they run in production.
Stack
- Ruby on Rails 8 with Hotwire (Turbo and Stimulus), behind nearly every product I run, this site included.
- PostgreSQL, with Solid Queue for background jobs.
- Tailwind CSS for the design.
- Kamal to deploy to my own servers, with Cloudflare in front.
- Honeybadger to hear about errors before customers do.
- Jumpstart Pro as the starting point for new products.
Why this stack
One person can build and run a real product with it. Fewer moving parts means more time on the problem and less on the plumbing.