// Uses  ·  Tools of the Study

What the work runs on.

Tools are not the craft – but a craftsman knows his bench. The stack, the rituals, and the small choices behind the work.

A living list. Tools earn their place here by surviving real work, not by being new.

Ghibli-style illustration of the desk – a central monitor with a watercolour landscape, a laptop on each side, a mechanical keyboard, headphones, and a bookshelf with a small forest spirit by the curtained window
// The bench – two machines, one monitor, and a small spirit keeping watch
Ghibli-style illustration of a sunlit living and dining room with a garden view, a green sofa, and a wooden dining table.
The room the desk lives in.
// Engineering, by day
// AI in the loop
Claude usage overview, all time: 78 sessions, 70,419 messages, 151.3 million tokens, 28 active days, longest streak 7 days, peak hour 9 PM, favourite model Opus 4.8, with a daily-activity heatmap. Claude token usage by day from late May to early July, split by model: Opus 4.8 78.9%, Fable 5 10.8%, Sonnet 4.6 5.9%, Sonnet 5 4.3%, Haiku 4.5 0.1%.
// Claude, all-time  ·  78 sessions  ·  70,419 messages  ·  151.3M tokens  ·  Opus 4.8 did 79% of it
// This site
// The desk