✳ the toolbox

Software I reach for every single day.

Mostly terminal, mostly open source, all muscle memory at this point.

01 — Editor & Terminal

The inner sanctum. Everything else is negotiable, this is not.

Neovim ↗editor — lua config, treesitter, ~40 plugins and counting

WezTerm ↗terminal — GPU-accelerated, configured in lua

tmux ↗multiplexer — sessions per project, resurrect for restarts

zsh + starship ↗shell — with a prompt that tells me git state at a glance

02 — CLI everyday carry

Small sharp tools that replace whole GUIs.

ripgrep ↗search — grep but ludicrously fast

fd ↗find — but with a syntax humans can remember

fzf ↗fuzzy finder — ctrl-r will never be the same

eza ↗ls — with icons, git status and trees

bat ↗cat — with syntax highlighting and git gutter

zoxide ↗cd — learns where you go, jumps there

jq / yq ↗data surgery on json and yaml from the shell

lazygit ↗git TUI — staging hunks without the pain

03 — Dev workflow

How code gets written, built and shipped.

Nix ↗reproducible dev shells — works on my machine, and yours

direnv ↗auto-loads project env when I cd in

just ↗command runner — a Makefile that admits it’s not a build system

gh ↗GitHub CLI — PRs, issues and releases without leaving the terminal

docker + lazydocker ↗containers, with a TUI for poking at them

04 — Apps & services

The GUI side of life.

Obsidian ↗notes — markdown files, no lock-in, synced via git

Raycast ↗launcher — replaced Spotlight and three other apps

Arc ↗browser — mostly for the spaces and the command bar

Excalidraw ↗diagrams that look hand-drawn because they basically are