The set I use daily. Nushell for structured pipelines, tmux to make every terminal persistent, Neovim as the editor — plus the supporting cast.
Strict, end-to-end type system. Rejects malformed data at compile time across content collections, API handlers, React components, and the terminal command engine.
Standalone runtime for the Next.js production build and the lab API surface — health, CSRF, CSP report, metrics SSE, weather proxy.
Backend scripting and applied cryptography — algorithm prototyping, numerical experiments, and data-pipeline glue alongside the TypeScript core.
Rust-based Python package + project manager. Locked, deterministic environments — every install reproduces the same dependency graph across machines.
App Router with Server Components by default. Drives every route — MDX role pages, lab module SSE stream, per-route OG images, sitemap, and the global terminal overlay.
Runtime schema validation at every trust boundary. Stops malformed data from content collections, API request inputs, and external responses (Open-Meteo, ipwho.is, ipapi.co) before it reaches application logic.
Unit + integration runner. Hard-TDD on pure logic — schemas, the UI-agnostic terminal command engine, content manifests, role component contracts.
Containerization & proxy layer. Self-hosted production topology — multi-stage container builds deployed behind a reverse proxy with automated TLS and HSTS hardening.
CI/CD pipeline engine. Enforces quality gates (lint, typecheck, test, content readiness, build) and automates zero-downtime SSH deployments to the VPS.
Persistent terminal multiplexing — one ssh session survives drops, reboots, and context switches across the daily Linux/macOS workflow.
Modal editor with LazyVim base, LSP, and treesitter. Every commit on this codebase originates here.
Structured-data shell — every command is a pipeline of typed records. Daily driver for log filtering and ad-hoc data transforms.
Workspace-aware package manager with deterministic, reproducible installs. Drives this monorepo's lockfile and the CI's --frozen-lockfile path.
Symlink farm for dotfile modules. One stow command per tool — Nushell, tmux, Neovim configs all reproducible across machines.
Configuration as code. Snippets below are the opening ~15 lines of each file; the full versions live in the public dotfiles repo.
$env.config = {
show_banner: false
edit_mode: vi
buffer_editor: "nvim"
table: {
mode: rounded
index_mode: always
padding: { left: 1, right: 1 }
}
hooks: {
display_output: "if (term size).columns >= 100 { table -e } else { table }"
}
}set -g prefix ^A
set -g default-shell /opt/homebrew/bin/nu
set -g history-limit 1000000
setw -g mode-keys vi
# Core
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum'
# Navigation
set -g @plugin 'sainnhe/tmux-fzf'
set -g @plugin 'omerxx/tmux-sessionx'
# Custom plugins
set -g @plugin 'kursataknc/tmux-ip-address'-- Overrides on top of LazyVim defaults. Anything LazyVim already sets
-- (tabstop, number, ignorecase, cursorline, termguicolors, etc.) has been
-- removed to avoid drift.
local opt = vim.opt
opt.background = "dark"
opt.swapfile = false
opt.sessionoptions = "blank,buffers,curdir,folds,help,tabpages,winsize,winpos,terminal,localoptions"