Overview

Getting Started

Getting the OS onto the machine, deciding what deserves installing, installing it, and not losing your configuration — groundwork for …

Terminal & Shell

Choosing a terminal, making the prompt earn its space, keeping sessions alive, and fuzzy-finding everything — less time spent at the command …

Files & Search

Modern replacements for grep, find, cat, and ls, plus JSON wrangling, structural code search, turning documents into Markdown, and editing …

Editors & IDEs

What VS Code, Neovim, and JetBrains are each good at, the settings worth changing first, and editing skills that outlive any of them.

AI Coding Tools

Terminal agents, inline completion, AI-native editors, local models — and the open-source layer that gives them repository context, …

Git & Collaboration

The Git workflow you use every day and the tools layered on top — gh, Gitea, Forgejo and GitLab, lazygit, delta, hunk, and pre-commit.

Network & APIs

Calling APIs, reading responses quickly, exposing a local server, putting your machines on one private network, and moving files between …

Containers & Deploys

Containers, Kubernetes and the platform around it, six CI/CD tools, an artifact repository, infrastructure and configuration as code, …

Observability & Reliability

Metrics, dashboards, logs, traces, and load tests — knowing what the system is doing before a user tells you.

Security

Finding problems in your code, secrets, dependencies, running app, and hosts — with tools a developer can run, not a separate department.

Automation & Shortcuts

Launchers, system utilities, Makefiles, schedulers, and no-code workflows — handing repetition to a machine.

Linux Desktop

The desktop side of a Linux workstation — a browser that manages tabs for you, websites as real apps, and a keyboard-driven PDF reader.

Docs & Notes

Tools for writing things down, drawing them out, and dealing with the documents other people send — notes, Markdown, diagrams, and two AI …

Vibe Coding Infra

The free-tier stack behind a solo-built product — hosting, database, cache, storage, auth, email, jobs, search, analytics, monitoring, and …

AI Media Tools

The images, edits, voice, and video a project needs — generation, upscaling, retouching, three takes on speech, offline dictation, and an …

Self-Hosted

Services you run on your own hardware instead of subscribing to — a photo library that replaces a cloud plan, and a whole desktop in a …