Tools that give you your day back
A hands-on guide to the tools that cut the repetition out of IT work — terminals, search, editors, AI assistants, Git, APIs, containers, automation. Every page follows the same shape: why it matters → how to install it → the handful of commands you’ll actually use. Five minutes each.
MIT licensed. Every page is plain Markdown — fork it, adapt it, drop it into your own handbook.
Ten categories, forty-four tools
Start wherever your friction is. Read straight through and you go from an empty terminal to a deployed service.
Getting Started
How to pick a tool worth installing, package managers on every OS, and keeping your config in dotfiles.
Terminal & Shell
Terminal apps, zsh with Starship, tmux sessions, fzf fuzzy finding, and zoxide for jumping between directories.
Files & Search
ripgrep, fd, bat, eza, and jq — modern replacements for grep, find, cat, and ls with saner defaults.
Editors & IDEs
The first settings that matter in VS Code, Neovim, and JetBrains, plus editing skills that survive a switch.
AI Coding Tools
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Ollama — four different shapes of assistance, and when each fits.
Git & Collaboration
A real daily Git workflow including how to undo things, plus gh, lazygit, delta, and pre-commit hooks.
Network & APIs
curl, HTTPie, Bruno and Postman, and opening a local server to the internet for webhook testing.
Containers & Deploys
Docker, Compose, kubectl and k9s, GitHub Actions, and Terraform — from local parity to infrastructure as code.
Automation & Shortcuts
Raycast, PowerToys, Makefiles, cron and launchd, and n8n for wiring services together.
Docs & Notes
Obsidian, the Markdown you actually need, Mermaid diagrams that live in your diffs, and Excalidraw.