Overview

Getting Started

How to decide a tool is worth installing, how to install it, and how to stop losing your configuration — groundwork for everything that …

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 — finding and reading files several times faster.

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, and local models — four shapes of assistance and where each one fits.

Git & Collaboration

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

Network & APIs

Calling APIs, reading responses quickly, and exposing a local server to the outside world.

Containers & Deploys

Pinning environments with Docker, composing services, inspecting Kubernetes, and automating with CI and infrastructure as code.

Automation & Shortcuts

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

Docs & Notes

Tools for writing things down and drawing them out — Obsidian, Markdown, Mermaid, and Excalidraw.