Uses
Software, tools, and services I use on a daily basis.
Development
VS Code — Primary editor for everything — Astro, Python, Terraform, Markdown.
PyCharm — For larger Python/Databricks projects.
GitHub Copilot — AI pair programming in the editor.
JetBrains Mono — Monospace font for coding.
Git + GitHub — Version control and collaboration.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Hetzner Cloud — Affordable cloud VMs for self-hosted services.
Cloudflare — DNS, CDN, Zero Trust tunnels, Pages — the whole stack.
OpenTofu — Infrastructure as Code (open-source Terraform fork).
Docker — Containerization for everything I deploy.
GitHub Actions — CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
Data Engineering
Databricks — Main platform for data engineering, Spark, and analytics.
DBeaver — SQL client for exploring databases and warehouses.
dbt — Data transformations with version control.
Airbyte — Data integration and ELT pipelines.
Python — Primary language for data engineering and scripting.
Self-Hosted Tools
Portainer — Docker management UI.
Uptime Kuma — Monitoring for all my services.
Infisical — Secret management across projects.
IT-Tools — Collection of handy developer utilities.
Wetty — Web-based SSH terminal access.
This Blog
Astro — Static site generator — fast, flexible, and great DX.
Tailwind CSS — Utility-first styling with dark mode support.
Cloudflare Pages — Hosting with automatic deploys from GitHub.
Giscus — Comments powered by GitHub Discussions.
Fuse.js — Client-side full-text search.