My Old Laptop Became a Daily Driver Again
After years on the sidelines, my 2018 laptop is back in daily use. A hardware cleanup, fresh thermal paste, and Omarchy gave it another life.
Tag: tools
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If I Had Subscribed Sooner: My Password Manager Problem
I stayed on a free password manager for as long as I could. Then the small inconveniences became a daily tax.
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The Right Tool for the Job: Fixing a Slow PHP Queue With a Small Go Program
A friend's PHP queue was crawling because PHP runs single-threaded. A small Go program to fan the work out cut the job down to 3 minutes. Here's what that taught me about picking tools.
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One VPS, One Dashboard: Consolidating a Friend's Almost 50 WordPress Sites
A friend was burning out maintaining ~50 client WordPress sites scattered across different hosts. Here's how we talked through consolidating them onto one VPS with a community panel and a Python worker that watches for compromised plugins and themes.
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Terminal-First Development: My Daily Workflow as a Software Engineer
How I use Ghostty, Fish, LazyVim, Yazi, LazyGit, btop, Herdr, and AI tools to build a mostly terminal-first software engineering workflow on macOS.
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From Zsh to Fish Shell: A Faster, Friendlier Terminal Experience
Making the switch from Oh My Zsh to Fish Shell with Tide prompt for better performance and a cleaner setup
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Leaving the JetBrains Ecosystem
A personal tale of breaking free from my comfort zone of IDEs and embracing the power of Neovim, muscle memory, and the open-source vim community
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Moving to mise: A Developer's Guide to Simplifying Version Management
A developer's guide to simplifying version management with mise - one tool to rule them all
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My Journey Building This Blog: From Zero to Hero 🚀
A deep dive into the process of building my personal blog, from initial setup to deployment, and all the tools and technologies I used along the way.