Current Stack

Uses

Hardware, software, AI tools, and the rest of what actually gets used to build, design, and ship — grouped by category, updated whenever the stack changes.

Hardware
MacBook Pro 14" (M3)

Daily driver for design, code, and video edits — enough GPU headroom for a DaVinci Resolve timeline without a render farm.

iPad Pro + Apple Pencil

Quick sketches, annotated screenshots, and marked-up PDFs before an idea is worth opening Figma for.

Software

Edit, colour grade, and sound design for everything under Video & Motion — from a 60-second reel to a full brand film.

Full edit pass on every photo set — culling, colour, and export presets that keep a series looking like one shoot.

AI Tools

Anthropic's Claude — most of the reasoning-heavy day-to-day work, from debugging to first drafts, runs through it.

Claude Code

Pairs on this codebase directly — stores, admin CRUD, forms, and this Playground/Uses/Now feature set were all built with it in the loop.

Runs from the terminal, not the browser — see this repo's own commit history.

Early-stage moodboards and concept art when a brief needs a visual reference that doesn't exist yet.

Design

Wireframes through production-ready UI — component libraries, prototypes, and developer handoff all live here.

Early flows, sitemaps, and brief-untangling before a project is structured enough for Figma proper.

Development

The framework this entire site runs on — App Router, Server Components, and the admin panel's client-side stores all lean on it.

Every line of app code, this file included — the type-safety net that makes a localStorage-backed CMS feel like a real one.

Primary editor for everything that isn't a design file — extensions for Tailwind, ESLint, and Git front and centre.

Automation
Cron

Scheduled jobs for small local scripts — the same daily-digest habit behind the Inbox Triage Bot in Playground.

Productivity

Client briefs, build logs, and the running list of what eventually becomes a Playground experiment or a Now update.

Task tracking for the daily-build habit — small tickets, fast triage, nothing heavier than the work actually needs.