Stack & strengths
The 2026 stack, and what I bring to it.
I design and ship with the same set of tools every day, and I keep the list short on purpose. Below is what I actually reach for, plus the strengths a team gets alongside the tooling.
The tools
Short list, used hard, grouped by where they sit in the work.
Design & prototype
Figma
Design, systems, prototypes. Home base.
Custom deck engine
Hand-built HTML decks. Fraunces + Inter, zero dependencies.
Whiteboard + Post-its
Where every project actually starts.
Build
Claude Code
My AI pair for building and refactoring, in the loop daily.
React + Vite
Production front ends, fast.
TypeScript
Typed, so it holds up.
Tailwind CSS
Utility styling at speed.
Node + Express
APIs and services.
Data & money
Drizzle + MySQL
A typed data layer that matches the app.
Stripe
Payments and Connect payouts.
Firebase Auth
Identity without the yak-shave.
Ship & automate
Vercel
Deploy, preview, done. Where this site lives.
Replit & Railway
Where Pawsh and SpeedyFixers run.
Playwright
Rendering, automation, and testing at 2x.
The strengths
What you get alongside the tooling.
Curious
I ask the annoying question early.
Rigorous
Research before pixels.
Tasteful
I sweat the 4px.
Systems-minded
One kit, used everywhere.
Ships
Designed and coded, in production.
AI-fluent
Agents in the loop, daily.
Founder-brained
I think in outcomes and runway.
Collaborative
With engineers, not over the wall.
Adaptive
Enterprise to zero-to-one.
Calm
Complexity made quiet.
Meticulous
States, edges, empty screens.
Fast
Idea to deployed in an afternoon.
See it in practice