Uses
What I use.
The AI tools, the homelab, the health kit and the web stack. No affiliate links. Updated when things change.
AI
Used every day, for real work.
- Claude & Claude Code
- Most of my building, writing and thinking-out-loud. It helped build this site.
- Gemini
- Second opinions and quick research.
- GitHub Copilot
- Code suggestions in the editor.
- NotebookLM
- Making sense of piles of documents, from RFPs to blood tests.
Homelab
More infrastructure than one house needs.
- Proxmox on a Beelink SER6 Max
- One small box, seven-plus virtual machines.
- Home Assistant
- Lights, sensors and automations.
- Frigate
- Camera recording that knows a person from a palm frond.
- A self-hosted AI assistant
- Because of course.
Health
If it can be measured, I’m probably measuring it.
- Oura Ring
- Sleep, HRV and readiness.
- Apple Watch
- Workouts and heart rate.
- Regular bloodwork
- Trends over time, fed into my own dashboard.
- Sauna + ice bath
- Contrast therapy. Mildly addictive.
What I build websites on
This site is Astro and Tailwind. The client sites I build through Chote Works use the rest, picked for speed, low running costs and nothing to patch at 11pm.
- Astro + Tailwind
- Static pages that load fast on a bad phone signal.
- Cloudflare Workers
- Global hosting, plus the small server that runs the assistant and the enquiry form.
- Cloudflare D1
- Keeps conversation state, rate limits and daily caps — then deletes it on a schedule.
- Resend
- Delivers enquiries to the business’s inbox, exactly once.
- Automated checks
- Every build is checked for broken links, missing titles, colour contrast and sideways scroll at phone widths.