My Productivity Stack
The software I actually pay for, how I use it, and a graveyard of the tools that didn’t survive contact with my workflow. I keep the stack small on purpose: fewer tools, each doing real work, most of them increasingly run by agents rather than by me.
Daily drivers
Dia
Free
My main browser. I let agents drive it for research and for testing what I ship.
Raycast
Free
Launcher and command bar. Basically everything starts with a keystroke here.
Superhuman
Paid
Email, keyboard-first and fast. The only inbox I can stand.
Wispr Flow
Paid
Voice dictation. I talk, it types - most of this site was written by voice (typos included).
Astropad
Paid
I drive and control my Mac mini from my iPad with it.
AltTab
Free
Proper Windows-style window switching on macOS.
Clocker
Free
Tel Aviv and San Francisco clocks in the menu bar, for a two-timezone life.
AI & agents
xpander.ai
Built it
Where I build, run, and manage every agent I use. I dogfood it every single day.
Claude Code
Claude Max
My primary coding agent. It wrote most of this website while I directed.
Codex
Paid
OpenAI's autonomous coding agent for the bigger, boring changes.
Plaud
Paid
AI recorder and notetaker. I stopped taking notes by hand - this captures calls and ideas for me.
Hark
Paid
Native iOS notifications from my agents - my phone buzzes when one needs me or finishes.
Model Usage
Free
Menu-bar tracker so I can see what the models are actually costing me.
Build & infra
VS Code
Free
My editor. Cursor was fun, but VS Code plus agents won.
GitHub
Paid
Code, CI, and the source of truth for everything I ship (gh + Desktop).
CLI toolbelt
Free
gh, awscli, kubectl, pnpm, node, psql, redis, hugo - and Fira Code as the font.
Supabase
Paid
Postgres, auth, and storage behind the products.
Cloudflare
Free
DNS, Workers, and the proxy that keeps my API keys off the client.
Tailscale + Mullvad
Paid
Private mesh network into my machines, with Mullvad exit nodes for a fully private connection.
Comms & docs
Slack
Paid
Team HQ. My agents live here too, as teammates.
Notion
Paid
Docs, specs, and the company wiki.
Sublime Text
Free
My scratchpad for temp notes. I don't keep a notes system anymore - just a fast throwaway buffer.
Bitwarden
Free
Passwords and secrets, self-hostable and open source.
Homelab
Home Assistant
Self-hosted
Runs on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an OpenClaw plugin. My home, automated by agents.
Read the setup →Immich
Self-hosted
Self-hosted photos on a Linux EC2 box with an S3 mount for unlimited storage, reached over Tailscale with SSL at Cloudflare.
Read the setup →The Graveyard
Tools I loved, used, and buried. Rest in peace. 🪦