Uses·Updated 12 August 2026
What's actually in the toolchain, cross-referenced against the work. Opinionated and specific.
Primary editor. Not Cursor, the agentic loop is enough of a productivity multiplier that paying twice for the same surface isn't worth it.
Long-form work, multi-file refactors, plan-mode reviews, and the auto-memory loop the personal-ops repo is built around.
Primary shell. Bash is available via the Bash tool for POSIX scripts; PowerShell handles everything Windows-side.
Not a list of things tried once.
Vision provider for AriOS capture, chosen after every local model proved unviable on a CPU-only machine. Only the photo bytes leave the device; the vault stays local.
Local text model for AriOS's classifier and the vault-RAG /ask path. Since the daemon moved onto a 4090 the ladder runs Cloudflare first, this second, and a phrase-aware heuristic last. The heuristic stays as the floor, so a capture still gets sorted when both models are unreachable.
CUDA-native 3DGS reference implementation. The path the benchmark settled on for training-side comparisons.
The processing hardware behind the 3DGS benchmark and the Barnes Dubai LLM v8 training runs. GPU work at this scale doesn't happen on a laptop budget.
Capture cleanup. The LCC scanner produces the raw captures the cleaning work is measured against.
Generative video and image stack for Bonya Studio editorial work. Mixed open-weights + cloud APIs depending on the brief.
Georeferenced base layer for the Barnes Vantage city-scale overlay. Handles the building-on-Earth coordinate handshake.
Plaintext-on-disk note system. Source of truth for AriOS captures, House Call reading prep, project planning, and the auto-memory the AI loop reads / writes.
Phone-to-laptop reachability for the AriOS PWA capture surface. Encrypted P2P, free for personal use.
This site's framework + host, on the default global edge. Not every project ships here; region and platform choices vary case by case.
Edge-distributed SQLite, reached for on projects with a per-user data plane. Paired with the @prisma/adapter-libsql stack where it's in use.
Error tracking + real-user CWV on the portfolio. Both no-op when env vars are absent so dev / preview deploys don't generate noise.