Favorites

A living shelf of my favorite tools, software, workflows, and corners of the internet that genuinely earn their keep.

Daily Driver Thinking & Writing

Obsidian

Local-first Markdown knowledge base

Plain-text Markdown files stored locally on disk. Where every essay draft, book note, and half-baked architectural idea starts before it reaches this desk.

Essential Blockchain & Web3

Foundry (Forge & Cast)

Blazing-fast Ethereum & smart contract toolkit

Writing invariant tests and fuzzing smart contracts directly in Solidity without fighting slow JavaScript test runners.

AI Stack AI & Dev Tools

Cursor & Claude

AI-assisted software engineering & reasoning

The fastest way to go from a rough system sketch to a working prototype while keeping full control over the underlying codebase.

Visuals Design & Thinking

Excalidraw

Hand-drawn system architecture & mental models

Whenever a protocol flow or state machine feels fuzzy in prose, sketching boxes and arrows here exposes the missing step in two minutes.

Workflow Productivity

Raycast

Keyboard-first launcher & clipboard history

Replaces a dozen tiny utilities with instant keyboard shortcuts, snippet expansion, and window management.

Infrastructure AI & Dev Tools

SQLite & LiteFS

Simple, durable relational storage

Proof that most side projects and early products do not need a complex distributed database cluster to ship reliably.

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