What I use.

Development

VS Code is home — extensions kept to the essentials: Prettier, ESLint, GitLens, Tailwind CSS IntelliSense. JetBrains Mono at 14px in the editor and the terminal. PowerShell in Windows Terminal for everything CLI: Wrangler, Git, npm. Chrome as the primary browser with DevTools open more often than not. GitHub CLI for branches and PRs; Wrangler CLI for Workers deploys and D1 queries.

Design

The design system for this site lives entirely in CSS custom properties — no external design tool involved. Tokens for colour, spacing, easing, and radius declared once, consumed everywhere. Outfit for display and body copy, JetBrains Mono for code and metadata. Both self-hosted as variable WOFF2 files: no Google Fonts, no external requests.

Hosting & infrastructure

Cloudflare Pages serves the static build output from dist/ with immutable cache headers. Cloudflare Workers handles the SPA fallback, all /api routes, OG meta injection for social bots, and scheduled cron jobs. Cloudflare D1 — SQLite at the edge — stores analytics events and project data. GitHub for source control; deploy is manual by choice.

Hardware

A mixed setup: desktop for serious work, laptop for travel and client visits. Both running Windows 11 Enterprise. The desktop handles the heavy lifting: multiple monitors, local test environments, and anything that needs sustained performance. The laptop covers everything else: all-day battery, fast wake, and a full dev environment portable enough for the ferry from Lipari. Six SSDs is not a personality disorder. It's accumulated projects, test environments, and the habit of never deleting a disk image before confirming the backup. External drives for archived builds and client source material.

Apps & services

Discord for async communication, dev community exploration, and the occasional webhook from the uptime monitor. Telegram and WhatsApp for client communication, both essential in Italy where WhatsApp is the de facto professional messaging layer. Spotify while working. Kaspersky for security on Windows; non-negotiable on a machine with client code on it. Notion for lightweight project tracking when a notepad isn't enough. Cloudflare Dashboard for DNS, Workers, and Pages management. GitHub Desktop for merge conflicts easier to visualise. The stack is deliberately boring so the work can be interesting.

The details

A few things here respond to you. The accent colour tracks your local time of day: cooler in the morning, violet at dusk, indigo through the night. Press ⌘K (or Ctrl K) anywhere to jump between pages and posts without reaching for the mouse. And a couple of interactions are left unlabelled on purpose, for anyone who likes to poke at the corners.