# Tools

Digital Ocean

Cloud Server Hosting

Digital Ocean is my preferred cloud server provider for hosting Django applications, API's and databases.

Django

Web application development framework

Django has been my goto framework for web applications requiring complex business logic and database integration.

Django Rest Framework

Backend API Framework

I use the Django Rest Framework to provide API's for a number of applications and websites, including this site. It's integration with Django makes it easy and simple to expose API's for database models.

Github

Source code repository

All my source code is stored on GitHub. Any code I have written that can be used outside the organisation it was intended for is available as a public repository.

I use Go mainly for development of API’s and for integration and manipulation of data services.

Javascript

Front End Web Application Development Language

Two years ago, I made it a personal goal to learn javascript. Two years later, and after discovering Svelte and SveletKit along the way I am now using javascript in most of my applications.

NGINX

Web Server and Reverse Proxy Software

NGINX is my web server of choice for webservers that I set up and build from scratch. The relatively easy setup means I can quickly get a working web application setup using the NGINX/Gunicorn/Django technology stack.

Omarchy Linux is an opinionated, modern Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and the Hyprland tiling window manager, designed to provide a polished, productive, and immediately usable desktop experience for developers and power users. Created by DHH, this is my goto development operating system.

PostgreSQL Database

Backend Database

I use PostgreSQL for all my Django web applications backend databases.

I use python for data manipulation, data transformations and integration of systems.

Svelte

Font End Application Development Framework

I discovered Svelte about 18 months ago and fell in love with its simplicity. Almost all my front-end applications and UI components are now written in Svelte/SvelteKit.

SvelteKit

Web Application Development Framework

SvelteKit is the shizzle! I now almost exclusively develop my web applications in SvelteKit. It's a simple quick and fun framwork to work in. <a href="https://github.com/Rich-Harris">Rich Harris</a> is a genius!

Tailwind CSS

Web and Mobile Application CSS Framework

TailwindCSS is my current framework of choice. I often use TailwindUI to quickly prototype applications and more recently I have started to leverage the fantastic skeleton.dev

Typescript

Front End Web Application Development Language

More and more I am using Typescript in my SvelteKit applications. I'm still getting my head around this one... one of my current learning projects.

Ubuntu Linux Server

Production Web Server Operating System

I use Ubuntu Linux Server on most of my cloud servers. Primarily I use this because my cloud service provider provides quick and simple Ubuntu server setup.

Vercel

Frontend Deployment Environment

I deploy almost all of my frontend applications on Vercel. Simple, quick and easy!

shadcn-svelte is one of the UI component libraries I used for developing Sveltekit applications. It is component based, enabling on the components required to be included in your code, and everything is fully customizable.