/uses
Uses. What I use to design, build, and ship.
Hardware, editors, agents, and software currently on the desk. Inspired by uses.tech.
Cursor
Primary editor and agent loop. Gateway work, refactors, reviews, and most of the shipping happens here.
MCP
Model context for tools I actually own: icon search, docs, and agent-accessible project surfaces.
Gemini
Used in product work like Mermaid AI, for fast generation with cost and safety kept in the loop.
Claude
Long-context reviews, architecture, and the refactors where the model needs to hold the whole system.
DeepSeek
Cheap, sharp reasoning when the loop needs another model in the mix.
n8n
Wiring agents, webhooks, and APIs without standing up another service.
LangChain
Graphs and tool loops when the product actually needs an agent, not a prompt.
Agentic workflows
How I ship at Qashio: agents for orchestration layers, boilerplate, and the mechanics so I stay on architecture.
VS Code
Still around for lightweight windows, remote sessions, and when I need a second editor open.
Xcode
Signing, device debugging, and React Native iOS builds.
Android Studio
Emulators, Gradle, and Play Store releases for React Native.
macOS
Daily driver. Calm, fast, and where the current fintech work gets done.
Homebrew
How the Mac stays honest. CLIs, runtimes, and the bits I do not want to install twice.
NixOS
Declarative setup done right. Still the most interesting Linux I have used.
Ubuntu & Fedora
Years of distro hopping for Docker hosts, servers, and local Linux work.
Linux Mint
Where a lot of the early fullstack work happened.
Windows
Where it started. Still around for the occasional Windows-only tool.
TypeScript
Default across web, mobile, Node services, and anything I expect to last.
React / Next.js
Product UI, admin platforms, and marketing surfaces.
React Native
Banking and fintech journeys shipped on iOS and Android.
Node.js / NestJS
APIs, gateways, billing, and back-office services.
APISIX
OpenAPI gateway at Qashio. How services actually get exposed.
PostgreSQL
Primary datastore. Prisma or TypeORM when the domain needs it.
Redis
Sessions, rate limits, and the fast path next to Postgres.
AWS
EKS, Lambda, S3, SQS, CloudFront. Current production cloud.
Docker & Kubernetes
Local parity, CI images, and how services actually run.
GitHub
Repos, reviews, Actions, and almost every personal project.
Jira
Sprints, bugs, and the paper trail of shipping.
Slack
Day-to-day at Qashio: channels, alerts, and the quick calls.
Microsoft Teams
Banking-side comms from the Mashreq years. Still opens when a client lives there.
Postman
Collections, gateway contract checks, and exploring services I did not write.
Figma
Reading product specs and turning frames into UI.
Terraform
Cloud wiring I would rather keep in git than in a console.
Storybook
Component libraries and copy-owned UI kits like MUIcn.
Lofi Cafe
Background noise when the office gets too quiet.