Resources

Claude Code

Anthropic

Agentic command-line coding tool from Anthropic. Plans, writes, tests, and ships across an entire repo. Replaced most of my IDE workflow.

Claude API

Anthropic

Anthropic's model API. Primary for in-product LLM features. Sonnet for production, Opus for hard reasoning, Haiku for speed.

Google Gemini

Google DeepMind

Google's frontier model family. Best long-context window in the field. I use it when I need to reason over a whole codebase or document set in one pass.

ChatGPT

OpenAI

OpenAI's chat product. Second-opinion thinking, quick research, image generation outside the build flow.

MCP

Anthropic

Model Context Protocol. The open standard that lets Claude reach into repos, databases, and external tools. How agent integrations get wired from here forward.

Cursor

VS Code fork with Claude built in. Not my default, but the fastest path for collaborators who want a familiar IDE.

base44

AI-driven no-code app builder. For client mockups and one-day prototypes when speed matters more than owning the code.

v0

Vercel

Vercel's AI UI generator. First-pass component generation when I have a clear visual shape in mind. Output gets refined in Claude Code.

ElevenLabs

Voice generation, including custom voice cloning. Prototype narration for the Other Travellers video series before I record final VO.

Suno

AI music generation from a text prompt. For sketching audio beds and intro tracks before commissioning real music.

Next.js

React framework with file-based routing, server components, and edge runtime. Default for every web product I have shipped in two years.

React Native + Expo

Cross-platform mobile framework. EAS Build for releases, Expo Router for navigation. Sola is built on this.

Tailwind CSS v4

Utility-first CSS framework. The new @theme directive in v4 changed how I structure design tokens. Canonical source on every site I build.

Supabase

Postgres, Auth, Edge Functions, Storage, and Realtime in one open-source platform. The backend behind most of what I build.

Vercel

Hosting and deploy platform built around Next.js. Edge runtime, AI Gateway, observability, all native. Where every web product I build lives.

Cloudflare

Edge platform. Workers for compute, Pages for static, Web Analytics for cookie-less data I actually trust.

Stripe

Payments infrastructure. The only serious option for online billing in everything I build.

Resend

Transactional email API with React Email components. Ships branded transactional flows in an afternoon.

Attio

Modern CRM with live data sync from email, LinkedIn, and calendar. Relationship management that does not feel like manual data entry.

Twenty

Open-source CRM built like a developer tool. Customisable schema, modern UI. The way I would run a CRM if I owned the data.

PostHog

Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, and A/B tests in one open-source tool. Default for any serious product.

Sentry

Error tracking and performance monitoring. Catches the regressions tests miss. Wired into every production app.

Google Analytics 4

Web analytics from Google. Necessary when clients need it for reporting. Not my default for product work.

Google Search Console

Google's own dashboard for what it indexes, how pages rank, and which queries reach your site. Ground truth for any organic strategy.

Andrej Karpathy

AI educator, former OpenAI and Tesla

Clearest explainer on what LLMs are actually doing. His videos and posts have done more for my mental model than most courses.

Nick Joseph

Anthropic

On the inside of how frontier models get built. The research practice I most want to learn from.

Garry Tan

Y Combinator

On founder taste and early product instinct. The standard for what serious early-stage operating looks like.

Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny's Newsletter

Operator interviews at a level of detail almost no one else publishes. The product playbook reference I actually use.

Theo Browne

t3.gg

Engineering perspective on the AI tooling hype cycle. Calls out vendor nonsense without sliding into contrarianism.

Brian Dean

Exploding Topics, Backlinko

SEO as discipline, not trick. The reason any of my organic strategy clears a serious bar.

Tayo Aina

Africa, told from the inside

Travel content from an African POV that reframes who narrates a place.

Jubril Agoro

Passport Heavy

Travel filmed and framed by a Black American traveller, taking the audience to places mainstream travel content politely avoids.