Things I think are awesome
Tools, websites, and ideas I keep coming back to.
Niri
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Columns of windows scroll horizontally instead of being shoved into a grid. Once you've used it, every other tiling WM feels wrong.
Tree-sitter
The parser library that quietly powers most modern editor tooling. Fast, incremental, language-agnostic. Vimfony's static analysis is built on it.
PostgreSQL
The relational database. Boring, powerful, ridiculously well-engineered. Choose it by default unless you have a very specific reason not to.
Sulu
A Symfony-based CMS that doesn't get in your way. Real content modelling, real developer ergonomics, no PHP horror show. Most of my day-job code is built on it.
Hyprland
A tiling Wayland compositor with proper animations and a config that's actually pleasant to write. Pretty *and* productive — a rare combination on Linux desktops.
Sylius
Open-source e-commerce on top of Symfony. Headless when you want it, monolithic when you don't. And every little piece can be replaced with something else.
Debian
The boring, stable, no-surprises Linux distro. Powers half the internet for a reason. I run it on every server I touch.
Arch Linux
The Linux distro that trusts you. Rolling release, minimal defaults, and a wiki that's a genuine treasure of the open web. My daily-driver desktop.
Blackfire
PHP profiler with graphs that actually help you find the slow thing. Not free, but on a real codebase the time it saves pays for itself in a week.
Tideways
PHP profiling built by people who clearly used PHP in anger. The other half of the profiler-and-monitoring story for any serious Symfony app.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Counterintuitive self-help that actually rings true. The premise: you only have so many fucks to give in life, so pick them deliberately. Less life-coach gloss than the title suggests.