Toolchain

Licensed tools, subscriptions, and environment setup for Richard Hess (eswat2)

Editor & Version Control

• Sublime Text — primary code editor (license)
• Sublime Merge — Git client (license)

UI / Component Libraries

• Flowbite Pro — Tailwind-based component library (license)
• Tailwind Plus — extended Tailwind CSS utilities and templates (license)
• Web Awesome — web component library (license)

Environment Management

• Brewfile — Homebrew package definitions, managed via eswat2-bin/brew-file repos
• Mise — runtime version manager (Node, Python, etc.)
• pip / upp — Python package management; upp lists the required packages for the environment

AI Subscriptions

• Claude Max — Anthropic Claude (Max 5x plan), Sonnet preferred
• Perplexity Pro — AI-powered search
• Grok (SuperGrok) — xAI Grok model
• Gemini Pro — Google Gemini
• Ollama Pro — local & cloud LLM inference

Platform & Dev Services

• Vercel Pro — hosting and deployments (Pro plan for increased daily deployment limits)
• GitHub Pro — source control, issues, and CI/CD
• NPM — user plan with unlimited private and public packages

Hardware

• iMac — primary workstation (macOS)
• iPhone Air — primary mobile device (iOS)

Networking & Remote Access

• Tailscale — VPN mesh network connecting desktop and phone
• Moshi — preferred SSH client on iOS