AI agents are getting better at an absurd pace, and if I am honest, it can feel impossible to keep up. One week there is a new model, the next week there is a new coding tool, and then suddenly everyone has a strong opinion about how you should be working.

That said, this is also what makes the space fun. It still feels like one big ongoing experiment, and I am very much learning in public with the rest of it. So rather than pretend I have found the one true setup, I thought it would be more useful to walk through the workflow I am using right now, what each tool does well, and where I think each one fits.

Since finding the site terminaltrove I have realised that I have accumulated a lot of CLI tools. Tools that help me in my workflow day to day or tools that are just awesome to use.

Below are a list of ones that I find useful

GitOps is great right up until you need to store a secret. Everything else lives in Git — manifests, Helm charts, ArgoCD app definitions — but the moment you need a database password or an S3 key, you've got a problem. You absolutely cannot put credentials in a repository, no matter how private it is.

Terminal multiplexers are one of those tools that, once you start using them, you wonder how you ever survived without one. Whether you're managing a homelab, running long-lived data engineering pipelines, or just tired of juggling dozens of terminal tabs, a multiplexer changes the game entirely.

Intercepting HTTP(S) traffic from a real iOS device is a powerful way to understand what your app (or any third‑party app) is sending and receiving—without Xcode, without re‑signing, and without touching a simulator. This guide provides a streamlined setup process and covers both the command‑line interface (CLI) and the Web UI (mitmweb) for capturing, filtering, and modifying your mobile traffic.

We're going to be using Catppuccin and this setup is generally for MacOS but this idea will work on Linux too. On macOS, you can run this shell command in Lua to get the current system appearance:

I have found a love for window tile management whether that be Aerospace for MacOs or Hyprland for Arch. They suit my workflow especially on a large 32" screen, I have been playing with Omarchy An opinionated Arch + Hyprland Setup by DHH

I am not a professional developer, but I am a hobbyist one, who knows what the future holds. As a Lead Solution Engineer, I do get to tinker with code in my day-to-day. But it's not my main role, more of a side quest. However, outside of my role I do love to tinker with code and homelabbing. Before I became a Solution Engineer, I spent some time in IT, which meant a lot of time in the terminal.

If you're a developer like me who lives in Neovim and frequently works with APIs, you've probably bounced between different tools for testing HTTP requests. Maybe you've used Postman, httpie, or curl commands scattered across your terminal history. But what if I told you there's a better way—one that keeps you in your favorite editor and treats your API requests as code?

If you've worked with arrays or delimited strings in Trino, you've probably encountered the need to "explode" them into separate rows. This is where UNNEST comes in. But there's a catch: unlike some other SQL databases, Trino requires you to use CROSS JOIN UNNEST rather than just UNNEST in your SELECT clause. Let's explore why.