Uses

Editor & AI

What I'm looking at for 8 hours a day.

• VS Code ↗

  Default editor. Nothing fancy in the config — tabs = 2, format on save, that is it.
• Claude Code ↗

  This entire site was rebuilt in a Claude Code session. I use it for real engineering work now, not as autocomplete.
• GitHub Copilot

  TODO: on or off? (I have it off when Claude Code is driving.)

OS & terminal

• Windows 11

  Primary workstation. WSL2 for Linux-flavoured tooling when something insists.
• Git Bash

  My default shell. Unix-style commands on a Windows box without the WSL tax.
• PowerShell 7

  When I want a native terminal.
• Windows Terminal ↗

  Tabbed terminal host for Git Bash + PowerShell + the occasional wrangler tail.

Languages & runtimes

• TypeScript

  Default language for anything bigger than a throwaway script.
• Node.js 22 LTS

  Runtime for CLIs and local dev.
• pnpm ↗

  Package manager. Fast, disk-efficient, strict about peer deps.
• Wrangler ↗

  Cloudflare CLI. deploy / dev / tail / d1 execute is 90% of my day.

Web stack (this site)

Literally what yigittanriverdi.com runs on.

• Astro 6 ↗

  SSR mode, Cloudflare adapter, zero JS on blog pages. Islands only when interactivity actually matters.
• Tailwind CSS v4 ↗

  CSS-first @theme tokens, no config file needed for small projects.
• Drizzle ORM ↗

  Typed queries over D1. Migrations as plain SQL files. Tiny footprint.
• Zod v4 ↗

  Validation at every API boundary. Strict schemas, no free text.
• Marked + rehype-sanitize + Shiki

  Markdown pipeline for the blog. Parse, sanitise, syntax-highlight, done.

Testing & tooling

• Vitest + @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers ↗

  Tests run inside a real Workers runtime with an in-memory D1. No mocks of Cloudflare APIs — they are the Cloudflare APIs.
• Biome ↗

  Lint + format in one tool. Fast, opinionated, zero config drift with ESLint + Prettier.
• TypeScript strict + noUncheckedIndexedAccess

  The combination that makes the type system actually earn its keep.

Hosting & infra

One cloud. Everything runs on it.

• Cloudflare Workers + Static Assets ↗

  Single deployment unit. SSR HTML + API + static files out of one wrangler.toml.
• Cloudflare D1 ↗

  SQLite at the edge for posts, projects, settings, login-attempts.
• Cloudflare R2 ↗

  S3-compatible object storage for blog images + the CV PDF.
• Cloudflare Web Analytics

  Free, privacy-friendly, no cookies, no consent banner. Core Web Vitals for free.
• Cloudflare DNS

  Same dashboard, same auth, same proxy. I stopped bothering with Route 53 or NS1 for personal stuff.

Fonts I actually look at

Same fonts in the site and my editor.

• Hanken Grotesk ↗

  Body + UI sans across the whole site. A touch more character than the usual grotesques.
• JetBrains Mono ↗

  Editor font, and every mono caption, nav item, tag, and code block on the site.
• Bricolage Grotesque ↗

  The big display face on the hero and page titles. Loads of personality without leaving the grotesque family.

Hardware

The physical layer.

• Laptop

  TODO: make/model.
• Keyboard

  TODO: make/model — mechanical?
• Monitor

  TODO: size / refresh.
• Headphones

  TODO: brand/model.
• Mic

  TODO: brand/model.

What I'd pick again

If I were starting a new project tomorrow.

• Cloudflare Workers over Vercel

  Same DX, half the cost at the traffic sizes I operate at, genuinely fullstack (D1 / R2 / KV), no cold starts worth mentioning.
• Astro over Next.js for content-heavy sites

  Zero-JS-by-default is load-bearing for SEO + LCP. Islands when I need interactivity.
• Drizzle over Prisma for new projects

  Lighter runtime, no separate query engine, SQL-native. Prisma still wins for teams that need migrations as a service.
• Biome over ESLint + Prettier

  One config, one binary, 10x faster. Haven't missed any rules.
• Claude Code as a pairing surface

  Not autocomplete. Actual engineering-level pairing. Changed how I scope side projects.