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
- Fork Git Client
- Visual Studio Code
- Bruno
- Sublime Text
- iHosts
- LittleSnitch
- NTFS for mac
Hosting, BaaS and CD
- Vercel.com
- Cloudflare Workers + Media
- Github
- Supabase
Legacy Hosting
- Hostinger for WordPress
AI
I officially stopped writing code all together in 2025
- Gemini 3
- Codex With Codex 5.3
- ChatGPT Desktop
- OpenClaw
App Dev
- Testflight
- Android Studio (otter)
- Xcode
Design and Brainstorming
- Figma
- Dribble
- Onepagelove / land-book
Multimedia
- Davinci Resolve Cloud
- Audacity
- Ableton Live
Project Management and tools
- Fallen back in love with Jira and Product Discovery
- Monosnap
- 1password
- Google Workspace
- Trello
Marketing
- Google Analytics
- Brevo
Notable “Stopped using’s”
- Bolt.new
- V0.dev
- Postman
- Webflow – why use this anymore as a “power user” dev?
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