Pi
Pi is great. It does just what you need it to, while giving you the flexibility to do whatever you want. I love it. It's my daily driver.
Tools I use
These are tools I use on computers pretty much every day.
AI stuff
Foreman
Foreman is a tool I built to switch between agent sessions easily and see what needs my attention and what's active, all a keystroke away.
ai-config
So many harnesses, so many skills, so much customization. ai-config lets me keep them all in sync extremely easily.
Codex
I mainly use the Codex app for coding from my phone. It has a nice UX.
Oracle
Useful when you need the hardest-thinking review. Or for two-line emails.
Terminal
Neovim
Neovim is my default editor. I was born in the mines of Neovim and will never let it go, even though these days I spend less time typing code. I still love the keybinds and customization.
tmux
Turning the terminal into a persistent workspace with endless customization. I love it.
Ghostty
Everything you want in a terminal. More importantly, nothing you don't.
mise
mise is a nice interface for all kinds of coding projects. I mainly use it as a basic task runner without anything fancy.
chezmoi
chezmoi keeps my dotfiles in sync and lets me customize some of the sharp edges around all the weird tools I've integrated to my setup.
Atuin
Terminal search history everywhere. It's nice.
Search and knowledge
Obsidian
I stick everything in Obsidian and let AI manage the upkeep. "Second Brain", but less productivity porn and more easily save and remember everything. I wrote more about how I use it.
Obsidian Sync
A tool I built that syncs my Obsidian vault as a Git repo, making my knowledge highly portable. Bonus points for using Working Copy plus some iOS Shortcuts to keep it synced to my phone too.
qmd
One of the only semantic search tools I've found lightweight enough to use day to day. Keyword search plus AI still goes surprisingly far, but it's nice to have semantic search when you need it.
ripgrep
grep, but faster.
fzf
Fuzzy selection that makes all kinds of terminal and TUI tools better.
zoxide
No more cd ~/that/directory/.... z plus a fragment gets me to the directory I always use.
Mac stuff
Karabiner-Elements
Keyboard remaps, mainly for Hyper key shortcuts.
Homerow
A nice tool to speed up clicks and avoid using the mouse.
Hammerspoon
A surprisingly versatile tool that I use frequently to build small quality-of-life shortcuts.
Rectangle
A keyboard window manager. I pretty much just use it to maximize windows.
MacWhisper
Rock-solid software from an indie developer. I recommend buying the lifetime license to support them. I'm currently using Parakeet with the hotkey for transcription.
Zen
I'm an Arc refugee. Zen is the closest alternative I've found.
Bitwarden
Because I can't remember my passwords. Also, I shouldn't.
Self-hosting
Cloudflare
If you need it, Cloudflare has it. Keeping everything in the ecosystem is quite nice.
Tailscale
Because you shouldn't be port forwarding. It makes connecting devices easy.
Doppler
A nice secrets manager that keeps credentials portable across machines and secure.
OpenTofu
Infrastructure as code for self-hosted systems.
Small tools I miss when they're gone
bat
Like cat, but readable.
eza
Prettier file lists.
uv
Remember pip? lol. uv offers great portability (you can even use it as a shebang line in scripts) and is pleasantly boring to work with.
btop
I pop this up when my computer's about to crash.
croc
Sometimes you just need to send a file from one machine to another. This is an easy way to do it.
Google Workspace CLI
Finally, a tool that AI can use for Google products.
Homebrew
Because I'm not smart enough to use Nix, and it works well enough on macOS and Linux.