No "proficient in Microsoft Office" filler. These are the tools, languages, and disciplines I use in active projects — listed honestly.
I favor minimal dependencies and infrastructure I can fully understand and explain. I don't use frameworks I can't read and debug at the source level. I don't build things that require specialized knowledge to maintain after I'm gone.
PHP + JSON for most sites. Not because it's trendy — because it's readable, portable, and doesn't require a build step to deploy. A client can open the files in any text editor and see exactly what's happening.
AI tools are part of my workflow, but they're tools. I use Claude primarily for structured output generation, schema drafting, and batch research tasks — not for writing code I don't understand or making decisions I haven't thought through.