Tools I Use in 2025

Editor

Neovim with a minimal config built on lazy.nvim. I've tried VS Code, Zed, and Cursor — they're all great, but nothing matches the speed of a well-configured Neovim for the kind of editing I do (SystemVerilog, Go, TypeScript across large codebases).

Key plugins:

• telescope.nvim for fuzzy finding
• nvim-lspconfig for language servers
• nvim-treesitter for syntax highlighting
• oil.nvim for file management

Terminal

Ghostty as the terminal emulator. It's fast, GPU-accelerated, and the configuration is dead simple. I switched from Alacritty last year and haven't looked back.

Shell is Zsh with a minimal prompt built on starship. No oh-my-zsh — just a handful of hand-picked plugins via zinit.

CLI Tools

The tools I reach for daily:

• ripgrep (rg) — faster than grep, respects .gitignore
• fd — better find
• bat — cat with syntax highlighting
• eza — modern ls
• delta — better git diffs
• jq / yq — JSON and YAML wrangling
• hyperfine — benchmarking CLI commands
• tokei — count lines of code by language

Version Control

Git with a set of aliases I've refined over years. I use git worktree heavily for reviewing PRs without stashing work. gh CLI for everything GitHub-related.

Languages & Runtimes

• Go — my default for backend services and CLI tools
• Rust — when performance is critical or I need zero-cost abstractions
• TypeScript — anything web-facing
• Python — scripting, ML experiments, EDA tool wrappers
• SystemVerilog — hardware design (obviously)

What I've Stopped Using

• Docker Desktop → replaced with colima + nerdctl
• Postman → replaced with httpie and .http files in VS Code
• Notion → replaced with plain Markdown files in a git repo

The trend is clear: I keep moving toward simpler, faster, text-based tools. The less abstraction between me and the work, the better.