what I use
My tools are public. What you pay for is knowing what to ask of each one and when to reach for it
None of this is a secret. The links are public, most of it is free, and if you want to build the thing yourself, here is the list and you can start today. The difference between that list and a finished system is not the tools. It is which one fits your particular problem, which one falls on your head in six months, and what you do not need at all.
What I build on
You do not need to know what any of these mean. They are here so you know this is not built on one all-in-one tool you can never leave.
Databases and data
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- SQL
- REST API
- JSON
Cloud and hosting
- Cloudflare Workers
- Cloudflare R2
- Google Cloud
- AWS
- Netlify
- GitHub
Payments and communication
- Stripe
- Resend
- Google Calendar
- SEPA payment QR
AI and recognition
- Gemini
- Google AI Studio
- OpenAI
- OCR
What I build with
- Anthropic
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Claude Design
- Lovable
- Cursor
Automation and processes
- n8n
- Make.com
- Zapier
- BPMN
- IoT
What I build web and mobile on
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
- Capacitor
- Vite
Analytics and office
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- IBM Planning Analytics
- MS Office
- Excel at expert level
AI skills
A skill is a set of instructions the tool in the editor works from. Most of them are public on GitHub and the numbers are rounded stars, meaning how many people saved them. The first card is the paid base everything runs on.
- Claude Max 20 highest tier
This is what everything runs on. The top tier means I never have to ration thinking: the tool can read a whole project at once instead of one file, try three approaches and keep the best, and review its own work when it is done. That is where the difference shows between code that works in a demo and code that survives daily use.
- claude-seo ★ 14 000
A full SEO kit inside the editor. Technical audits, structured data, local search and optimisation for being cited by language models, not just Google.
- frontend-design Anthropic skill
Pushes for design that does not read as a template with a swapped logo. For every site it asks for its own typography, palette and layout, derived from what the business actually does. That is why two sites from me do not look alike, and why this one does not look clicked together.
- humanizer ★ 35 000
Strips the tell-tale signs of machine writing out of text. That is why nothing on this site reads like it came out of a generator.
- watermarks-remover ★ 2 100
Generators leave a trace in what they produce: invisible characters in text and provenance data written into images and documents. This tool finds and removes it. I run it over my own writing as a final check, so nothing stays in it that I did not put there.
- ponytail ★ 101 000
Makes the tool think like a senior developer who hates writing code that did not need to exist. Less code means fewer things that can break.
- n8n-skills ★ 6 000
Builds n8n automations that work first time. This is where the plumbing between systems comes from, the kind that stops people retyping data from one place into another.
- headroom ★ 66 000
Shrinks the volume of data going in for processing. In practice that means cheaper and faster work with no loss of quality.
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Writes and publishes articles optimised for search and for language-model answers. Useful for clients whose site needs to keep producing content.
Every month I spend more on tooling than some agencies charge for a whole job. None of it is billed to you separately, it is in the price of the work. That is why the results look the way they do. I do not cut corners on what I actually build your work with.
Websites and programs
Finished things there is no point rebuilding: libraries, icons, checking tools. Open the link and you have exactly what I have.
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A JavaScript animation library. I reach for it where CSS alone runs out, say when motion has to hang off the scroll position or a headline needs to come apart letter by letter. It stays smooth on older phones, and since Webflow took it over the whole thing is free, plugins included.
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An icon family in six weights, from thin to filled. I take them from one set instead of collecting them from five places, so nothing clashes inside an interface. They are drawn at 16 px, which keeps them readable in a small table row. MIT licence.
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A collection of ready-made transitions between interface states. It covers the small things nobody notices until they are missing, like what happens when an item drops out of a list or a dialog opens. I use the recipes as a starting point and fit them to the project instead of pasting them in blind.
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An effects editor for mobile apps. You set the effect with sliders and it hands back working code for SwiftUI or React Native, so a background that ripples under the content needs no hand-written shader. The editor itself is free and you only pay when you want the files.
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Not a repository but a service. It checks finished content and reports what it is missing to rank higher.
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External audit of security headers: CSP, HSTS, Permissions-Policy, referrer, XFO. Every site runs through this before it ships; the target is grade A or A+, nothing lower.
- and a few more no link
A handful of tools and habits I keep to myself. Not because they are a secret, but because the difference between me and someone who downloads the same list is not the list.
This is a list. The system is the work
If you want to build it yourself, go ahead, nothing here is stopping you. If you would rather it was finished and still working a year from now, write to me. The first call is free and it will also tell you which of these things you do not need.