Uses

A somewhat comprehensive list of tools, apps, hardware, and more that I use on a daily basis to design and code things.

Design

Any motion graphics I create are created in Adobe After Effects. So far I haven't found a non-Adobe product that's as good. If anyone has suggestions please message me.

I use Cursor as my text editor.
Firefox is my main browser for both development and general use.
React is my front end Javascript library of choice. The component-centric mental model is the first thing that truly made sense to me as a designer.
For 3D effects and image shaders I use three.js. It has a bit of a learning curve but you can do some really powerful stuff with it.
For CSS I've used a myriad pre-processors and css-in-js solutions like styled-components, but these days I'm using vanilla CSS with PostCSS to get upcoming CSS features today.
For Javascript animations I use Framer Motion, it's a great way to add spring animations to React and three.js.