# Uses: The tools I build with

> The hardware, editors, languages, infrastructure and AI tools Samet Samyeli uses to build lodos.md and this site.

Source: https://samye.li/uses/
Updated: 2026-11-07

The tools I use every day, and why. Most of them are boring on purpose: I would rather spend my attention on the work than on the setup.

## Machine

- **MacBook Air**: one machine for everything, from lodos.md to this site. Light enough to come along to the sailing club.

## Editor and terminal

- **VS Code**: where the code gets written and read.
- **Claude Code**: AI pair programming in the terminal, for refactors, reviews and the chores that would otherwise eat an afternoon.
- **zsh**, with **fnm** for Node versions and **pnpm** for packages.
- **Homebrew** for everything else, and **gh** for GitHub from the terminal.

## Stack

- **TypeScript**, **Next.js** and **React** for products.
- **Python** (async) for services and workers.
- **PostgreSQL** with **Prisma** on servers; **SQLite** where the data lives on the user's own device, as it does in lodos.md.
- **Astro** for this site.

## Infrastructure

- **Cloudflare Pages** for this site: static files, deployed by GitHub Actions once every check passes.
- **Hetzner** servers running **Coolify**, behind **Cloudflare**, for lodos.md.
- **Docker** images, built the same way everywhere.
- **GitHub** for code and reviews, **GitHub Actions** for the checks that run before anything ships.

## Notes and writing

- **Obsidian** and plain **Markdown** for my own notes; the lodos.md wiki for what the company knows.
- Essays go up on the [lodos.md blog](https://lodos.md/en/blog), and shorter things here.

## AI

- **Claude Code**, above.
- **lodos.md's own agents**: lodos.md is built with its own AI team, through the same propose-and-approve loop it gives its users. Nothing an agent writes becomes canonical until I approve the diff.

## Away from the screen

- A Spotify library of rock and Anatolian rock: [music](https://samye.li/music/).
- An ILCA dinghy and a lot of open water: [into the wind](https://samye.li/outdoors/).
- A shelf of Stoics and strategy: [reading](https://samye.li/reading/).

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