stack

A little bit more about my personal interests, the tools I use every day, and what I love building with.

01 Hobbies

  • ↳Playing basketball
  • ↳Music — specifically amapiano, afro house, and old school R&B
  • ↳Learning about tech, finance, geopolitics, and rocket engines
  • ↳Obsessing over F1 (a recent rabbit hole)
  • ↳Currently reading How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
  • ↳Listening to the most amazing playlist on earth

02 Tooling

  • ↳Editor: Zed
  • ↳Terminal: Ghostty
  • ↳Design: Figma
  • ↳Browser: Zen
  • ↳AI Coding: Opencode

03 Choice of model

  • ↳Day to day: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (sometimes Kimi k2.5)
  • ↳Heavy lifting: OpenAI GPT 5.4 or Claude Sonnet 4.6
  • ↳Design/UI: Claude Opus 4.6

04 Favourite languages

  • ↳Python: For most quick tasks or servers
  • ↳Go: Mainly if I want to make binaries, if I want something fast out of the gate, and concurrent APIs
  • ↳TypeScript: For the web

05 Favourite stack

  • ↳Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, Motion, shadcn
  • ↳Backend: Python (FastAPI), Go (Echo), Postgres, Convex
  • ↳Hosting: Railway (for everything)
  • ↳Auth: Clerk and Better Auth
  • ↳Infrastructure: Cloudflare (domains & email routing), Tailscale (to use services from anywhere)
  • ↳Analytics & Icons: PostHog, Phosphor Icons
  • ↳Object Store: UploadThing or Convex (depending on the project)