Python is where I'm fastest. Rust is what I reach for when something has to be fast or talk to Windows. TypeScript shows up whenever there's an interface to build. Past that, I'll use whatever the job actually calls for.
Most of what I build starts as something that annoyed me. A Windows tuning tool, because the ones I found wanted a lot of trust for very little control. A scraper, because doing the same thing by hand every week was miserable. Sometimes the answer is a Django app. Sometimes it's Rust and Tauri. Occasionally it's a script I'll never open again.
The work mostly lands in a few places:
- Web backends. Django usually, with Channels or Celery once things need to be real-time or scheduled. Some Flask, some Fastify when Node is the better fit.
- Windows desktop apps in Rust and Tauri, often touching Raw Input, ViGEmBus, or other parts of the OS that were never meant to be scripted.
- Scrapers and data pipelines that have to keep working on sites actively trying to stop them.
Lately I've been spending time on async Rust and agent tooling, mostly because both are hard in ways I find interesting.
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