My Dev toolkit 2025

Writing this in march of 2026 notable shift at a rapid pace towards going fully AI. Platforms like V0 and Bolt fail to deliver cloud based SaaS for Coding, Gemini and Codex are king and queen. Working locally is most reliable, Vercel offers free hosting and simple deployments from Github. Figma to code is getting closer to being a thing. Shifting towards PaaS with Supabase, and away from dev-ops headache and overhead hosting the CMSon digital ocean.

Local Dev

1. Fork Git Client
2. Visual Studio Code
3. Bruno
4. Sublime Text
5. iHosts
6. LittleSnitch
7. NTFS for mac

Hosting, BaaS and CD

1. Vercel.com
2. Cloudflare Workers + Media
3. Github
4. Supabase

Legacy Hosting

1. Hostinger for WordPress

AI

I officially stopped writing code all together in 2025

1. Gemini 3
2. Codex With Codex 5.3
3. ChatGPT Desktop
4. OpenClaw

App Dev

1. Testflight
2. Android Studio (otter)
3. Xcode

Design and Brainstorming

1. Figma
2. Dribble
3. Onepagelove / land-book

Multimedia

1. Davinci Resolve Cloud
2. Audacity
3. Ableton Live

Project Management and tools

1. Fallen back in love with Jira and Product Discovery
2. Monosnap
3. 1password
4. Google Workspace
5. Trello

Marketing

1. Google Analytics
2. Brevo

Notable “Stopped using’s”

1. Bolt.new
2. V0.dev
3. Postman
4. Webflow – why use this anymore as a “power user” dev?