Tooling

Hardware

• MacBook Pro M3 Pro — daily driver. ~/Dev is the workspace root.
• Beacn Studio + DSP — audio interface and real-time DSP for the recording chain. XLR in from the SM7B.
• Shure SM7B — microphone, straight XLR into the Beacn.

Editor + terminal

• Claude Code — primary AI coding assistant, on Claude Max.
• Cursor — secondary editor for when Claude Code isn't the right tool.
• cnvs.dev — native macOS Swift app that drives Claude, Cursor, and Codex in parallel with voice control. My multi-agent throughput tool.
• Terminus — main terminal.
• macOS Terminal — the built-in, still around for quick one-offs.
• Homebrew — package management.

AI stack

• Claude Max — primary reasoning and coding.
• Grok — secondary, especially for X-context questions.
• ChatGPT — third opinion when two takes disagree.
• OpenRouter — fallback and free-tier routing for Hermes and background tasks.
• Ollama — local model runner for anything that stays offline.

Security + monitoring

• Wazuh — home-lab SIEM. Custom Python integration for email alerting; write-up pending.
• CrowdStrike Falcon — day-job EDR (GovCloud). Not self-hosted.
• ConnectWise + IT Glue — MSP alert triage and documentation.
• ScreenConnect — remote access for MSP work.
• Action1 — Windows endpoint management. There's a write-up on the blog.

Home lab

• Ansible — Linux automation. Complements Action1.
• Ludus — home-lab range platform.
• CSI Linux — forensics workstation.
• Certbot + Cloudflare DNS — SSL automation over the DNS challenge.

Content creation

• Ecamm Live — streaming and recording.
• Descript — video editing and transcription.
• Obsidian — notes and knowledge base (~/SS-Vault).
• Agent OS — Julian Goldie's orchestration hub for my Claude and Hermes agent workflows.

Infrastructure

• Linode VPS — this blog runs here (Node.js/Express 5 + SQLite).
• PostgreSQL — database stack for SaaS projects, not this blog.
• nginx — reverse proxy on the VPS.
• GitHub — code hosting.