Stack

Frontend

• I've been doing frontend for 20 years; for many of those years I've worked alternately with ReactJS and VueJS, and with the frameworks built on top of them — NextJS and NuxtJS.
• I have a soft spot for layout work: CSS and semantic HTML are closer to my heart than JS or TS.
• Astro I'm using for the first time on this very blog — looks like love at first sight.

Backend

I'm not a backend engineer, but with my web-dev experience there was no chance I'd avoid the other side. So for small startups and personal pet projects I do fullstack as a one-person band.

• For the simplest things — HonoJS + SQLite.
• For more complex projects — FastAPI with PostgreSQL in Docker.

Tools

I'm lazy, so:

• I try to cover code with tests;
• I decorate projects with various linters and formatters;
• thanks to that, code-quality checks run automatically and don't eat my time.

AI assistants

• GitHub Copilot — currently my main one, but with the announced policy changes it'll likely drop out of the toolkit soon.
• Claude Code — primarily for planning and working with text.
• Codex — for coding.
• Opencode — for experiments with open-source models.
• Hermes — for automations.

Hardware

• I work on a MacBook.
• Local-model experiments live on a Windows desktop with a beefy GPU.
• Projects get deployed to Linux.

Workflow

Every feature goes through roughly the same cycle:

1. Pin the goal and constraints into CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md so the agent has a stable context.
2. Run brainstorming through Superpowers and get a design spec.
3. Translate the spec into an implementation plan with concrete steps; story-level detail happens in Openspec.
4. Subagent-driven execution in TDD and SDD modes, with two-stage review per task (spec compliance first, then code quality).