Tools
The software I actually use every day: editor, terminal, research and focus tools, with a note on why each one earned its place.
Every tool here is one I open in a normal week. Nothing is listed because it is popular, and nothing is listed because I set it up once and forgot about it. Where something is self-hosted or open source, that is usually the reason it won.
Pick a category to narrow the list, or open a card to read why the tool stuck.
The editor everything else plugs into.
A fast first draft, never the final word.
Where the LLM tokens and the money actually go.
A shell that tells me where I am.
Shell history as a searchable database.
Dotfiles in git, secrets left out of it.
One keystroke instead of ten.
Open source, auditable and boring, which is exactly right for a vault.
A read-it-later pile that does not vanish with a startup.
The bibliography, and the reason it stays correct.
A magnet, an NFC tag, two taps.
The open-source app behind the brick.
My machines behave as if they were on one LAN.
No tools in that category.
Some of these get a longer treatment on the blog, and a few of them show up in the projects they helped build.