Uses

The tools I actually use. Not sponsored, not comprehensive, and most of them could be swapped for something else without much loss.

Design

Paper and a pencil first. Then straight to code. Figma when a client team lives there, mostly for talking rather than for designing.

Code

Svelte and SvelteKit for most product work, or whatever the team already uses; I have shipped in React, Vue and plain HTML this year. Plain CSS with a small set of custom properties. Playwright for testing the things that break.

Accessibility

VoiceOver on the Mac and the phone, NVDA on a Windows laptop kept for the purpose, and the browser's own accessibility tree. No paid tools; the checklist is the tool.

Writing

A plain text editor and this site's Markdown editor. Everything on the blog is written in it, and the site itself is described on the colophon page.

Hardware

A laptop that is older than it should be and a second monitor that is not. A cheap Android phone that stays in the drawer for testing, because that is what most people have.

Not on the list

A task manager, a second brain, a productivity system. I have a text file called todo.