Vlad Ilie

Uses

I can't do magic by myself, but the right software tools in the right hands are doing a great job.

🗄️ Working environment

  • Manually adjustable desk

    1600x800x36 mm, black
  • 2 x Notus chair

    Ergonomic chair with mesh
  • Laptop stand

    Portable, height adjustable, folding
  • Desk support for 2 monitors

    Gas spring, A+ SMLC24, 17-32 inch
  • Mousepad Floston WORLD

    900x400x3 mm
  • FORSÅ lamp, nickel-plated

💻 Hardware

  • Apple MacBook Pro 16 A3428

    2026, Apple M5 Pro 18-Core, 24GB RAM Unified Memory, SSD 1 Tb NVMe, Apple 20-core GPU
  • 2 x Monitor LED LG

    27 inch, 4K, 60Hz
  • Mouse Apple Magic 2

  • Keyboard Mac LOGITECH MX Keys

  • Microphone VONYX CMS300B

✨ AI

  • Claude

    Thinking partner for research, writing and design — this site’s 2026 design started as a Claude artifact.
  • Claude Code (CLI)

    Agent in the terminal: refactors, dependency upgrades, migrations, tests and code reviews across my projects.
  • Claude in Chrome

    Browser extension that lets Claude open pages, click through flows and read the console while I build.
  • ChatGPT

    Second opinions, quick questions and first drafts.

🤖 Software

  • Visual Studio Code

    Extensions: EditorConfig for VS Code, ESLint, GitHub Actions, GitLens, i18n Ally, MDX, Package Json Upgrade, PHP_CodeSniffer, Prettier, Prisma, Sort lines, Tailwind CSS IntelliSense, vscode-icons, WordPress Snippets
  • Postman

  • Google Chrome

    Extensions: AdBlock, CSS Grid Overlay, GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture, JSON Formatter, Wappalyzer - Technology profiler, WordPress Browser Extension
  • DDEV

    Local WordPress environments in Docker (Colima): PHP 8.5, Apache-FPM, MySQL 8.4, Node 24, Composer 2 and WP-CLI, HTTPS through Traefik, Mailpit for e-mail, Mutagen for fast file sync, phpMyAdmin as an add-on, Xdebug and XHGui on demand.
  • Signal

  • Slack