A Minimalist Tool Stack for Efficient Development in 2026: Do Less, Achieve More
Remember when you could fit your entire development environment on a floppy disk? Yeah, me neither. But somewhere between that golden age and today, we’ve managed to create an ecosystem so bloated that developers need tools to manage their tools to manage their tools. It’s tools all the way down. We’ve convinced ourselves that having 47 browser extensions, 12 different terminal multiplexers, 3 competing note-taking apps, and a monitoring solution that costs more than a monthly car payment somehow makes us better developers....
