Stuff I Use

Adobe Illustrator is my go-to vector graphics software. It's great for creating logos, icons, illustrations, and complex designs. It allows for scalable artwork that maintains quality at any size.

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard for image editing. It is widely used for photo manipulation, retouching, creating digital art, designing web and print graphics, as well as the occasional animated GIF.

Adobe InDesign is a publishing and print layout application. It's most frequently used for creating and publishing documents such as magazines, brochures, books, posters, and interactive PDFs.

Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional video editing software. It offers comprehensive tools for editing, color correction, audio mixing, and rendering tools for polished video production.

Figma is a web-based design tool used for creating interface wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes. It enables real-time, simultaneous collaboration among design teams.

Canva is an online graphic design platform that simplifies content creation for a lot of different use-cases, from social media graphics and presentations, to simple videos and print materials.

A lightweight and powerful text and source code editor, Sublime Text offers a minimal interface with robust features like multi-cursor editing, a command palette, and a solid ecosystem for plugins. My active theme never strays far from stock adaptive Sublime, but JetBrains Mono is my go-to font.

The defacto developer platform for version control and code collaboration—like Google Drive, but for devs. GitHub allows developers to host, manage, and share their code using Git, while providing a suite of tools for issue tracking, project management, and continuous integration.

A modern, native app for database management. TablePlus provides a clean and intuitive GUI for a wide range of databases, making it easy to browse, query, and edit data with its inline editing, advanced filters, and common query storage.

An essential code runner for PHP and Laravel developers. Tinkerwell is a sandbox that lets you run PHP code in the context of your application—locally or on a remote host. It's an invaluable tool; think of it as an instant scratchpad for testing your code and queries.

A fast, native PHP and Laravel development environment for macOS and Windows. It includes everything a developer needs to get started—PHP, Nginx, DNS management, and more. All in a single application.

My daily driver is a custom build from 2014, powered by a Core i7-4930k, 64gb of RAM, and a Nvidia Quadro K5000 GPU. After 10+ years of video production, graphic design, and local web dev, it's still going strong. Connected to 2x run-of-the-mill (but bulletproof) ASUS monitors.

During my first 5-6 years at a desk job, I went through 4+ mice before shelling out for the MX Master 3. Not cheap, but it works as well today as when it was new. Has the perfect set of buttons & wheels.

Great over-ear headphones with A+ sound quality. These are paired to my PC via a USB bluetooth receiver and I've never had connectivity issues. Even going down two flights of stairs to our cement-walled basement, they never cut out.

Great way to mount a condenser microphone to a desk. This low-profile arm is bolted to the corner, where it can swing clear of my workspace when not in use. Holds an MXL 770 with a basic pop filter.

I love mechanical keyboards, but something about the traditional layout was causing trouble in my elbows & wrists. The K860 has been on my desk for years at this point, and its a much more comfortable fit for long coding sessions.

My successor to an older/original 2i4 that worked great for 8 or 9 years. The Solo is more compact, with a single XLR input (alongside a 1/4" input) and uses USB C for its output, which is a nice upgrade.

Handy little gadget for running actions, launching apps, sending API calls, and controlling anything at your desk—hardware and software alike! I use this customizable collection of LCD keys for a lot of repetitive tasks, including my initial daily setup.

Since the GSuite days, Google has been my go-to for cloud-based productivity software. Workspace is made up of many invaluable tools—Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Chat, et al. Collectively, it's the best bang for buck of any SaaS product I use.

AWS is a powerful beast, and I've used it directly a lot over the years. But for 95% of my work, Forge is an invaluable management layer. It simplifies server provisioning and application deployment for all of our applications, and has really streamlined staging & production workflows.

Oh Dear is a delightfully-named website monitoring tool. It automatically checks your website(s) for broken links, expired security certificates, DNS record changes, performance problems, and much more. An invaluable tool that helps me sleep at night, and it keeps getting better thanks to new features and improvements. Highly recommend it!

1Password helps create, store, and automatically fill strong passwords for all your online accounts. Sensitive details are stored in an encrypted vault, accessible with a single master password (hence the name). It's device/OS agnostic and has robust sharing functionality for teams & families.

Fathom Analytics is a simple and lightweight website analytics tool, that takes a privacy-first approach. Through its dashboard and API, Fathom shows critical performance metrics for all your websites, without collecting any personal data—this ensures GDPR, CCPA, and ePrivacy compliance.

Harvest is a time-tracking and invoicing application that helps businesses and freelancers monitor project workflow and bill clients efficiently. It's dead simple to track time and log expenses, but also has robust features for generating both one-off and recurring invoices, as well as a useful API and Zapier connection.