Tech Radar

Offers me an all in one platform for maintaining mobile apps.

Cross-platform native apps using React.

My personal preference for building backends, CLIs and small, fast binaries.

Nix is my preferred local development environment for any project + provisions my macOS

I'm playing around with it to learn its patterns, mostly in combo with Tauri

Exploring it as a backend alternative with Ktor

I've found Remix/React Router is the best way to build server side frontend applications.

Comes closer to what I like in Go with Deno's stdlib for Node apps

Experimenting as a faster alternative to Electron

Building basic iOS & macOS apps with it as alternative to RN for broader projects

I've found React Native gives a better experience on iOS than Flutter does.

I liked some of the Ruby convenience but think it's surpassed by Go, Node and Python

I just don't have a use case for it. I'm eyeing it for AI though.

Outdated & inconvenient in contrast to all others

I liked Remix better (more opinionated) and don't like Vercel

Organizational overhead most of the time

Simple selfhosted uptime monitoring

Ties in very well with any sort of AI tooling

Best API management & testing tool around.

I like and use it, but found it a manual process and sync to be flaky

In the age of AI, works better than Excalidraw for architecture diagrams

I like Nix more to provision systems

It has become too enterprise and bloated for my needs

For sharing ideas I use it, but not in documentation context

Actual Budget is more feature rich and modern

Primary coding editor, fast, and offering good AI agent support

My personal extendable AI assistant of choice

My main interface into AI through any model

I use OpenAI over their API, primarly for image generation via GPT Image

My goto open weight for local, and API provider via Mistral AI Studio

My current coding harness, offering whatever Claude Code can do

Preferred model provider, both locally and through their Cloud for hosted open weights

Using this as a selfhosted AI API gateway into any model for my local services and apps

Experimenting with it as alternative to Mistral Vibe

I used to use it big time but now interface more through Raycast & coding agents with models

I disliked the setup, the flakiness, the hype. Hermes was faster and more accurate

I am not the biggest Anthropic fan and found no edge over other providers

Probably good, but other harnesses do the same job (simpler and cheaper)

Used to use it, opted out after SpaceX bought them. Zed does the same for me for free

The backbone of all machines in my homelab

Cheap and reliable, slowly moving away to Hetzner + Coolify as an EU alternative

Backbone of blog.thibmaek.com

Powers my home network infrastructure

Simple scalable hosting

For local storage of projects I don't want on Github. Only using the VCS for now

Migrating my hosted apps to Hetzner to have EU cheap & performant hosting

Playing around as an alternative to Fly

I haven't found much use for them in my own work that isn't covered by Fly/micro VMs

It's OK, there are better alternatives in static/dynamic hosting like Fly

Expensive and surpassed by others by now

Too expensive for my use cases