What I Use

Tools & Setup in 2026 ⚡️

These are the software programmes that I use everyday as a software engineer.

2026 has been an incredible year professionally and personally, I started using the terminal more thanks to claude code, codex and antigravity. I’m still on the tmux panes and neovim for reading the code.

• Browser: Brave (Personal), Chrome (Work)
• Terminal: Ghostty and kitty
• Editor: VSCode (Frontend), Neovim (Go, Python, TS)
• Password Manager: Bitwarden
• Productivity: Google Workspace (Mail, Calendar, Tasks)
• Notes: Notion & Excalidraw
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 (Personal, with Nix store), macOS (Work)

I’m also a big fan of GNOME and its cohesive app ecosystem — it just feels incredibly usable and well thought out.

Command Line Tools

• Shell: zsh with Starship
• jq + jnv: Daily JSON processing
• zoxide: Smarter navigation
• Neovim: NvChad-based custom config

Hardware

• Personal: Acer Aspire (Ubuntu 24.04 + Nix store)
  • i5 12th Gen, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD
• Work: MacBook Pro (M4)
• Accessories: Basic wireless keyboard & mouse and LG UltraFine monitor.