;Feb 2026 ;1 min read

Tools I Use #

The software and hardware that make up my daily workflow.

A snapshot of what I reach for. It changes slowly — I tend to keep tools until they actively get in my way.

Editor & terminal #

• Neovim with a config I maintain as kolan.vim. LSP, Telescope for fuzzy everything, Treesitter.
• Ghostty as the terminal. Fast, GPU-accelerated, sensible defaults.
• tmux for sessions that outlive the terminal window.
• fish shell for interactive use, POSIX sh for anything I’d commit.

Languages & build #

• Go for services and CLIs — fast builds, boring concurrency, one binary out.
• Rust when I need the guarantees or the last 20% of performance.
• SQLite for local tools, Postgres for anything that outlives a process.

Hardware #

• 14" MacBook Pro (M-series) — the fans have never turned on.
• A mechanical keyboard with tactile switches, because I stare at it all day.
• One external monitor. Two felt like more context-switching, not less.

Also on the machine #

• ripgrep and fd — I haven’t typed grep or find in years.
• jq for JSON, hyperfine for benchmarks, git for everything.