Tools

I use Claude (previously known as Claude Dev) in VSCode to assist with coding, development. testing and documentation. Cline is the thoughtful coding agent.

Digital Ocean is my preferred cloud server provider for hosting Django applications, API's and databases.

Django has been my goto framework for web applications requiring complex business logic and database integration.

I use the Django Rest Framework to provide API's for a number of applications and websites, including this site. It's integration with Django makes it easy and simple to expose API's for database models.

I use Electron to develop cross platform applications and user interfaces.

I have been using Linux as my primary operating system for a very long time... since the early 90's. My current 'daily driver' is Fedora Linux, which is a bit ironic given its Redhat heritage. Over the years I have gone from Redhat Linux, to Slakware, Debian, Ubuntu and finally Fedora.

All my source code is stored on GitHub. Any code I have written that can be used outside the organisation it was intended for is available as a public repository.

I use Go mainly for development of API’s and for integration and manipulation of data services.

Two years ago, I made it a personal goal to learn javascript. Two years later, and after discovering Svelte and SveletKit along the way I am now using javascript in most of my applications.

NGINX is my web server of choice for webservers that I set up and build from scratch. The relatively easy setup means I can quickly get a working web application setup using the NGINX/Gunicorn/Django technology stack.

I use PostgreSQL for all my Django web applications backend databases.

Skeleton provides a simple modern looking UI toolkit which I use for quickly prototyping user interfaces and web applications.

I discovered Svelte about 18 months ago and fell in love with its simplicity. Almost all my front-end applications and UI components are now written in Svelte/SvelteKit.

SvelteKit is the shizzle! I now almost exclusively develop my web applications in SvelteKit. It's a simple quick and fun framwork to work in. <a href="https://github.com/Rich-Harris">Rich Harris</a> is a genius!

TailwindCSS is my current framework of choice. I often use TailwindUI to quickly prototype applications and more recently I have started to leverage the fantastic skeleton.dev

More and more I am using Typescript in my SvelteKit applications. I'm still getting my head around this one... one of my current learning projects.

I use Ubuntu Linux Server on most of my cloud servers. Primarily I use this because my cloud service provider provides quick and simple Ubuntu server setup.

I deploy almost all of my frontend applications on Vercel. Simple, quick and easy!

shadcn-svelte is one of the UI component libraries I used for developing Sveltekit applications. It is component based, enabling on the components required to be included in your code, and everything is fully customizable.