Uses
Software, hardware, and rituals I rely on to ship design systems.
Editors & dev
- Cursor
- Primary editor. Claude Sonnet + project rules for my design system work.
- Warp
- Terminal. Perplexity + NotebookLM for research while I work.
- Figma
- Design surface. Figma Variables as the token source of truth.
- Style Dictionary
- W3C DTCG token pipeline. The backbone of every client project.
AI & agents
- Claude Sonnet 4.5
- Day-to-day pair. Project rules tuned to my DS architecture conventions.
- Claude Code
- Autonomous refactors. Token migrations, component sweeps, governance audits.
- MCP
- Custom servers for Figma, Style Dictionary, and WU‑style governance checks.
- Together.ai
- Background agents for the Social Autopilot pipeline.
Hardware
- MacBook Pro 14" M3
- Work machine. 36 GB RAM is the sweet spot for Cursor + Docker + Figma.
- iPad Pro 11"
- Reading papers, quick sketches, Figma mirror for haptic review.
- Rotring 600
- Drafting pencil. Where new token taxonomies get drawn first.
Writing & thinking
- Notion
- Second brain. Every client kickoff starts as a Notion doc.
- Leuchtturm1917 A5 dotted
- Bullet journal. Nothing ships to Figma without going through a page here first.
- Obsidian
- Personal Zettelkasten for the book notes and the Instituto curriculum.