Istiaq Nirab full stack + ai
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Tools

Things I install on a fresh machine before anything else, or reach for often enough to keep a list.

PhpStorm

Where all the plugin work actually happens — the WordPress stub integration and Xdebug step-through are worth the license on their own.

jetbrains.com

Xdebug Key

A small menu bar toggle for switching Xdebug on and off without editing php.ini by hand mid-debug session.

xdebug.org

TablePlus

The GUI I reach for over wp-cli when I need to eyeball wp_postmeta after a migration went sideways.

tableplus.com

Warp

A terminal that treats blocks and AI completion as first-class, which matters when you're bouncing between PHP, TS and Python shells all day.

warp.dev

Ollama

Running local models to test LangChain and LangGraph flows offline before burning API credits on the real thing.

ollama.com

Anaconda Navigator

Keeps the Python environments for different AI engineering projects from fighting each other over package versions.

anaconda.com

RapidAPI

Useful for probing a third-party API's actual shape before wiring it into a LangChain tool or a plugin's REST bridge.

rapidapi.com

GitHub Desktop

Not my daily driver for commits, but the fastest way to review a messy diff before it goes into a PR.

desktop.github.com

Zed

Fast enough that it's become the default for quick edits and one-off scripts where PhpStorm would be overkill.

zed.dev

Claude

Where most of the LangChain and LangGraph design thinking happens before a single line gets written — pairing on architecture, not just code.

claude.ai

VS Code

The default for TypeScript and Python work — Copilot-adjacent extensions and a lighter footprint than PhpStorm when I'm not touching PHP.

code.visualstudio.com

Brave Browser

Daily browsing and quick DevTools checks, kept separate from the profile I use for client staging logins.

brave.com
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