Writing code
- Editor
- VS Code.
- Terminal
- Linux shell — most of my lab work lives there.
- Version control
- Git and GitHub.
- Runtime
- Node.js for anything full-stack.
Uses
What I work with.
The tools I actually reach for. No affiliate links, and nothing listed that I have not used properly.
Security
- Recon
- Nmap for mapping what a host exposes.
- Web
- Burp Suite for intercepting and replaying requests.
- Traffic
- Wireshark when I need to see what actually went over the wire.
- Practice
- TryHackMe, always inside authorised labs.
Shipping
- Hosting
- Hostinger shared hosting for static sites and PHP, Render for anything with a Node server.
- Databases
- MongoDB for project work, SQL when the data is relational.
- This site
- Astro, built to static files, no client framework.
Everything else
- Music
- Spotify while working.
Curious about a choice here?
Most of the reasoning ends up as a note in the garden eventually.