What I use

Qiskit

Primary SDK for every tutorial. Verbose but the ecosystem is deepest.

PennyLane

Go-to for QML + variational circuits. Best docs in the field.

Cirq

Occasional — when replicating a Google Quantum AI paper.

OpenQASM 3

For vendor-neutral circuit exchange.

quantum-circuit (npm)

Pure-JS simulator powering the in-browser playground.

IBM Quantum free tier

10 min/month of real Eagle r3 hardware. All intro tutorials run here.

qBraid

Cheapest multi-vendor access for heavier experimentation.

Amazon Braket

IonQ Forte + Quantinuum H2 when fidelity matters for a publishable result.

Astro 5

Content-site framework. MDX + per-page JavaScript islands.

Tailwind v4

CSS — Vite plugin, no PostCSS dance.

MDX + remark-math + rehype-katex

Math rendering.

Shiki

Syntax highlighting (build-time, no runtime JS).

Cloudflare Pages + Workers

Edge hosting + /api routes for newsletter capture.

Cloudflare KV

Subscriber storage.

Buttondown

Newsletter delivery (paid, ~$9/mo).

Plausible

Analytics — no cookie banner needed.

Obsidian

Long-form drafting + linking. Vault syncs via iCloud.

Zotero

Paper library for quantum references.

arXiv

Daily scan of the quant-ph category.

The Quantum Insider

Best industry news aggregator.

MacBook Pro (M-series)

Primary dev machine. Runs Qiskit simulators up to ~20 qubits comfortably.

External Dell UltraSharp 27"

Second monitor for papers + terminal.

Vortex mechanical keyboard

Silent switches for coffee-shop writing.

VS Code

Primary editor. Astro + Tailwind + Copilot extensions.

zsh + starship

Shell.

wrangler

Cloudflare deployment CLI.

gh

GitHub CLI for PR + issue flow.