The tools I actually use.

Windows workstation, multi-monitor setup, mechanical keyboard with brown switches, wireless mouse, and a rotating cast of external drives for backup experiments.

VS Code with a small set of extensions. Windows Terminal with PowerShell 7. Git for version control. Claude Code and Gemini for pairing. No fancy workflow — just commits that make sense.

Node.js for back ends, tooling and small servers. Vue for interfaces. Electron when something needs to live on the desktop. TypeScript everywhere it fits, JavaScript when it does not. Static sites for everything that does not need a database.

SAP for material data. ABViewer for CAD drawings. Solidworks, SketchUp, 3D Builder and FreeCAD for 3D work. Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator for graphics. Unity for the occasional 2D or 3D experiment.

TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · Vue · Electron · Python · PowerShell · C · C++ · C#. Comfortable reading unfamiliar code and learning whatever the current project actually requires.

Gemini API for most LLM work. Claude for pairing and long-context reasoning. PowerShell and Python for anything that has to run twice. Cloudflare Workers for small pieces of infrastructure that need to live at the edge.

Static HTML, one stylesheet, one small script. Generated from a single PowerShell block. Hosted on Cloudflare Pages. No frameworks, no build step, no dependencies. That is the point.