Resources

Tools I Use Daily

• VS Code

  Editor of choice. Fast, extensible, and gets out of the way.

• GitHub

  Version control and collaboration. Where the code lives.

• Vercel

  Deployment platform. Push to main, it's live.

• Plausible

  Privacy-friendly analytics. No cookies, no tracking scripts.

• Linear

  Issue tracking that doesn't slow you down.

Articles That Shaped My Thinking

• “Choose Boring Technology”

  Dan McKinley on why proven tools beat shiny new ones.

• “The Twelve-Factor App”

  Methodology for building modern, scalable SaaS applications.

• “How to Build Good Software”

  Li Hongyi on why software is about people, not code.

Books Worth Reading

• “The Pragmatic Programmer”

  Timeless software wisdom. Read it early, revisit it often.

• “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”

  Martin Kleppmann on distributed systems. Dense but essential.

• “Staff Engineer”

  Will Larson on career growth beyond senior engineer.

Open Source I Admire

• Next.js

  React framework that gets the details right. Powers this site.

• Fastify

  Node.js web framework. Fast, well-designed, great plugin system.

• Zod

  TypeScript schema validation. Parse, don't validate.

This list evolves as I discover new tools and ideas. Last updated March 2026.