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I wrote down my whole setup in one place: how I work, from a bare laptop to a shipped binary. Most of it is tools I built and run in the open, tied together into one way of working. https://www.subaud.io/the-subaud-setup/

It starts with the machine. A new laptop becomes mine from one declarative file I can read before it runs, so I always know exactly what a setup will do. Then the terminal: ghostty, tmux, and a picker called proj that is the way in to any piece of work.

The harness is pi, which I now use for everything because I can extend it. I pick the model per task, defaulting to a strong one and dropping to cheaper ones for smaller work. And I can hold a tool at an exact version or let it track the latest, tool by tool.

The workflow is capture, plan, implement, review, ship. Nothing is reviewed by the thing that wrote it, so review runs on a different model. Everything lands through a pull request, and merging is what deploys, with no credentials on my machine.