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Ubaidullah
Work
About
Writing
Now
Uses
Playground
K
Uses
The tools I
actually
use.
Not aspirational — the actual stack I touch every day.
Editor
VS Code
Default editor. Vim mode off — I just like good defaults.
Cursor
When I'm doing AI-heavy refactors.
Claude Code
Pair-programming partner for the deep work.
Stack I reach for
Next.js + TypeScript
Default for anything user-facing in 2026.
Tailwind CSS
Speed of iteration beats design-system overhead.
MongoDB
Where most of my production data still lives.
Anthropic Claude + OpenAI
Routed based on task. Claude for reasoning, GPT for speed.
Vercel
DX that gets out of my way.
Hardware
MacBook Pro
My daily driver.
External monitor
More vertical pixels = more thinking room.
Daily
Linear
For projects with a team.
Notion
For everything else.
Arc / Brave
Profiles separated by client / context.