Tools I use in 2026

Placeholder post — written to exercise rendering paths during development. Will be replaced before launch.

A short list of tools that earned their keep on my machine in 2026. No affiliate links, no rankings — just what’s actually open right now.

Editor

• Zed for day-to-day TypeScript and Astro work. The collaborative cursor is genuinely useful for pairing.
• VS Code when I need a specific extension that hasn’t shipped to Zed yet.

Terminal

• Ghostty as the terminal emulator.
• fish as the shell. I switched from zsh in 2025 and haven’t looked back.
• eza, bat, fd, rg as the standard ls/cat/find/grep replacements.

JS / TS

• pnpm for everything. npm and yarn don’t get installed on new machines anymore.
• Biome instead of ESLint + Prettier. One tool, faster, fewer config files to babysit.
• Vitest for unit tests. Playwright for end-to-end.

What I dropped

• Webpack — Turbopack and Vite cover all my use cases now.
• nvm — switched to fnm, which is dramatically faster.

That’s the list. Short on purpose; the moment a list of tools gets long, it stops being useful and becomes a bibliography.