Uses

Tools, hardware, and software that I use regularly. Updated periodically.

Knowledge Work

• Obsidian — Primary thinking and writing environment. Powers the digital garden at cognitivearchitecture.ca.
• Claude — AI pair for research, writing, and development. This site's recent history is one long collaboration with it.
• NVivo — Qualitative coding, from an earlier research life; still shapes how I think about classification.

Day Job

• Microsoft Fabric — Enterprise data platform work.
• Microsoft Copilot + SharePoint — The adoption and governance surface I spend my working hours on.
• SQL — For when the question is best asked of the system directly.

Development

• Eleventy — Static site generator for this site.
• VS Code — Primary editor.
• Git + GitHub — Version control and hosting.
• GitHub Actions — CI/CD for builds, deploys, and the daily garden refresh.
• Cloudflare — DNS and edge caching.