Stack and tools — Jeanmarcos

Living list. I update it when something meaningfully changes — not every time I buy a new gadget.

Desktop

Main machine: Fedora 43 desktop, Ryzen + 64GB RAM. Plenty of RAM so microservices can run in parallel without drama.
Monitor: 32” 4K, all day.
Keyboard: split mechanical with silent switches.
OS: Fedora Workstation. Came from macOS; switched when hardware control and terminal workflow started mattering more than the ecosystem.

Editor and terminal

Main IDE: Cursor (VS Code fork) with Claude integrated. I fall back to VS Code when I’m not using AI.
Terminal: zsh with Powerlevel10k, tmux for long sessions.
Dev browser: Chrome with devtools MCP for deep inspection.
Git: plain CLI. Occasionally GitKraken when I need to visualize complex branching.

Languages and frameworks

Daily: PHP (Magento 2), Go, TypeScript, SQL.
Frameworks: Magento, Hyvä, Laravel, Astro, Vue.
Infra: Docker + Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Fastly.
Protocols: gRPC, Protocol Buffers, REST, GraphQL.

AI in my workflow

Claude as a real teammate: PRs, migrations, schemas, reviews, tests, documentation. Claude Sonnet 4.6 for dense work, Haiku 4.5 for everyday tasks.
Custom RAG over my codebase for context-aware questions.
Git hooks that auto-review staged diffs before commit.

Writing and thinking

Markdown + MDX for this site’s stories.
Obsidian for personal notes and working notebooks.
Excalidraw for quick diagrams when explaining architecture.

What I don’t use

Too much Slack: anything that can’t go async is a poorly-designed meeting.
Video on every call: only when it adds something. 90% of the time it doesn’t.
Notifications: everything muted except DMs and red deploys.