Uses
Tools earn their place here by being used, not by being new.
Daily drivers
- Linux — home
- Docker & Kubernetes — the core loop
- Helm + ArgoCD — how things ship
- GitHub + GitHub Actions — source and CI/CD
- GCP / GKE — where the clusters live
- VS Code
Tracing & observability
- Grafana, Prometheus — dashboards and metrics
- Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Alloy — logs, traces, long-term metrics
- OpenTelemetry — instrumentation
- ClickHouse — fast columnar queries
- tcpdump, ip, nsenter, conntrack — the packet toolkit
- Excalidraw — every diagram on this site starts here
This site
- Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind
- MDX in git, Vercel — GitOps for words
Hardware
- MacBook — daily driver
- An old laptop running k3s — the home lab