devkernels

Uses

What I actually use.

Inspired by uses.tech. The gear, editors, and services I reach for every day — honest, not aspirational. Updated when something changes.

Hardware

  • MacBook Pro— daily driver for everything work
  • Hetzner VPS— runs OpenClaw, agents, cron pipelines 24/7
  • External 27" display— for long writing + review sessions

Peripherals

  • Mechanical keyboard— tactile switches, shallow actuation
  • Logitech MX Master— scroll wheel I can't live without
  • AirPods Pro— when I need to disappear

Editor & Terminal

  • Claude Code— primary dev workflow — agents + hooks + memory
  • VS Code— second chair for visual diffs and MDX
  • Neovim— quick server edits over SSH
  • iTerm2 + zsh— split panes, tmux for persistence
  • JetBrains Mono— coding font of choice

Languages & Runtimes

  • Java— production systems muscle memory
  • Go— CLI tools and anything that needs to start in <50ms
  • Python— data, scripts, agent orchestration
  • TypeScript— frontends, edge functions
  • Rust— learning — for the parts that really matter

Infrastructure

  • Oracle Cloud (OCI)— day job — GoldenGate CDC, Spark
  • Kafka, Spark, Redis, PostgreSQL, pgvector— standard backbone
  • Docker + systemd— prod deploys on the VPS
  • Terraform— infra I don't want to click through
  • Grafana + Prometheus— observability baseline on everything

AI Stack

  • Claude (Opus / Sonnet)— primary LLM for code + writing
  • OpenClaw— multi-agent orchestration I run on
  • Ollama + local models— for offline and privacy work
  • ChromaDB + pgvector— hybrid memory across agents
  • XTTS-v2 / Fish Audio— voice cloning + TTS

Content & Writing

  • Next.js + MDX— this site
  • Remotion— carousels, reels, video for devkernels
  • Tailwind + shadcn/ui— design system scaffold
  • Notion— source of truth for content DB
  • Figma— layouts and explorations

Daily Drivers

  • Raycast— launcher + clipboard + snippets
  • Linear— personal + team tasks
  • Telegram bots— my relay layer into agents
  • 1Password— all secrets, zero passwords in .env commits

Reading & Inputs

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications— re-read yearly
  • ByteByteGo, High Scalability— architecture patterns
  • Anthropic research + papers— agent design

Last updated April 2026.