Uses

Hardware

Windows desktop as the primary command station. Closest physical proximity to me of any station I run.
Beelink mini PC as the always-on linux box (ben-command) for content-pipeline jobs and scheduled agents.
Production app box (Windows Server 2016, IIS) for the SaaS that pays for everything else.

Claude Code is the daily driver. Multiple parallel sessions across clones, orchestrated through my own internal CLI and a vault of dashboards.
codex for second-opinion reviews, hard reasoning passes, and the zero-cost blog ingester that turns work logs into beats.
Manus for async multi-review cascades on architecture docs.
Model choice is deliberate. Haiku for lookups, Sonnet as the default, Opus reserved for genuinely hard reasoning. Quota is the constraint, not capability.

Astro for the static build. Content collections for posts, MDX where I need it, plain markdown where I do not.
Cloudflare Pages for hosting, with Cloudflare in front of everything else I run.
Fastmail on dxdev.com for email. GoDaddy and Cloudflare split the rest of the ~60-domain portfolio.

Classic ASP + SQL Server on IIS. Older than it sounds, more reliable than it looks.
A newer frontend monorepo (pnpm workspaces, Node services behind IIS via ARR) is gradually carving surfaces off the ASP monolith.
Bamboo handles deploys. Self-hosted GitHub runners on the prod box for the Node side.

Obsidian vault as the single source of truth for architecture, decisions, work logs, and dashboards. Agents read it constantly, write to it sparingly.
JIRA for tickets. git + SSH for everything else.