Uses
The tools behind every part of my work, served as the menu of a late-night ramen bar. The idea comes from uses.tech. If you don't agree, fight me.
SECTOR 07 / NOODLE BAR / OPEN LATE
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お品書き · tonight's menu
麺屋Sospedra
tools served nightly since 2013 · broth aged 13 years · barcelona
The house always lived by the terminal. Like every honest dev kitchen we hang a /uses page: the exact hardware and software behind the daily service, no display pieces, no sponsors. The tradition comes from uses.tech, where hundreds of developers publish what they really work with. Everything on this wall gets used daily.
The bowls · Workstation
其の一hardware: the vessels everything gets served in
- fans = myth14'' MacBook Pro, M5 Pro, 48GB of RAM, 1TB (2026)¥980, buy tier「laptop」Silent under load. All-day battery. 48GB of RAM runs agents, dev servers and the browser at once.
- Dell S2722QC 27'' 4K USB-C¥980, buy tier「display」4K text at 27 inches. A single USB-C cable carries video and charges the laptop. Clean desk.
- BONTEC monitor arm¥380, go-cheap tier「arm」The monitor floats and the desk clears. Any brand holds 10 kg. Buy the cheap one.
- Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID¥980, buy tier「keyboard」Touch ID is the purchase: sudo, the password vault and the App Store on one fingerprint. The typing itself is fine.
- Keychron M5 Wireless Ergonomic Mouse¥980, buy tier「mouse」Vertical enough to spare the wrist, normal enough to aim. Quiet clicks and 8K polling.
- iPhone 17 Pro + Belkin MagSafe mount名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「camera」The best webcam Apple sells is the phone. The Belkin clip snaps it to the lid, and Continuity Camera does the rest.
- AirPods Pro 2¥980, buy tier「earbuds」The noise cancellation erases an open office. Others sound better. None mic better.
- Firmoo glasses¥380, go-cheap tier「glasses」Blue-filter glasses are commodity optics. These are ten euros, made to prescription. Never pay boutique prices for a coating.
- IKEA BEKANT (custom firmware)¥980, buy tier「desk」Stock firmware moves the desk only during a button hold. I reflashed the PIC16LF1938: one press now travels to a saved height.
- Interstuhl UPis1 100U名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「stool」Hands down, this removes lower back pain. It is a stool with a rounded base, so you stabilize yourself all the time. Height is a non-issue with the desk above.
- chef's favIKEA ALEFJÄLL, Grann beige¥980, buy tier「chair」Real grain leather, adjustable everything, a ten year guarantee, an IKEA price. The back holds eight hours without complaint. Beige: a desk chair does not need to look like a cockpit.
- DeltaHub Carpio 2.0¥980, buy tier「wrist」Gel pads press straight on the nerve. The Carpio lifts the wrist one centimeter and glides with the arm. A surgeon co-designed it.
- only today!NVIDIA DGX H100, 8× H100 SXM 80GB売切¥46,000,000, off the menu「gpu」For the 70B-parameter broth. Nobody has ever ordered it. It stays on the wall so we remember the ceiling exists.
The broth · Editor + Terminal
其の二the base everything else cooks in
- Zed名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「editor」Rust and GPU rendering: the window opens before the hand leaves the keyboard. The agent panel is native. Open source.
- iTerm2¥750, fine tier「terminal」Split panes, instant replay, tmux integration. Fifteen years of releases and none broke anything. Boring, native, correct.
- Fish shell名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「shell」The terminal is nice, but have you ever played with shells? This is the real deal. Fish is out of this world.
- Rosé Pine theme名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「theme」All natural pine, faux fur and a bit of soho vibes. Their words. 220 ports, so every window wears the same palette.
- Zed Mono (or Menlo)¥750, fine tier「font」Zed Mono ships with the editor, Menlo with the machine. Always favour the standards.
- Safari (+ Chrome for DevTools)¥750, fine tier「browser」Safari for living: battery and Keychain. Chrome for work: DevTools is DevTools. Two browsers, two jobs.
- Claude Code名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「agent」It reads the repo, runs the tests and writes the boring half. The terminal has a coworker now.
- Codex CLI¥980, buy tier「adversary」Claude writes, so a rival reviews. Codex gets the diff cold and one instruction: attack. If both agree, the code ships.
- Apple Notes¥380, go-cheap tier「notes」No Notion, no Obsidian, as easy as that. One keystroke, automatic sync, text. Never pay for a notes app.
- dotfiles名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「config」All my cool configs. Steal anything you want. My aliases are legendary.
The toppings · Desktop Apps
其の三small extras, strong flavor
- Apple everything¥980, buy tier「ecosystem」I degoogled completely: Mail, Calendar, Passwords, iCloud, Music. Apple charges money and treats me as the customer, not the product.
- Raycast名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「launcher」My beloved. Launcher, clipboard history, window tiling, unit math, one hotkey. Anything with an API becomes a keystroke.
- Affinity¥980, buy tier「design」Vector, pixel and layout in one window. Canva bought it and made it free. Pro tools, no monthly toll.
- Klack¥980, buy tier「sound」Every keypress gets a mechanical thock, in spatial audio. The Magic Keyboard sounds like switches now. Pocket change.
- MonitorControl名物¥1,300, goat tier, house special「brightness」The MacBook brightness keys drive the Dell over DDC. Free, open source, one menu bar icon. How does Apple not include this by default?
- Ghostery + Hush¥380, go-cheap tier「blocker」Ghostery strips the trackers. Hush strips the cookie banners in Safari. Both free. Never pay to un-break the web.
- Yaak¥980, buy tier「api」Postman grew a login wall and a sync cloud. Yaak sends requests: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, plain files under git. Local-first, MIT, zero telemetry.
- QuickTime Player¥750, fine tier「capture」Screen recording ships with macOS: File, New Screen Recording, done. No watermark, no account, no extra app.
- Qwant¥750, fine tier「search」The degoogle ends at the search box. European, no ad profile. The results are good enough to forget about.