Generate your SSH config in seconds — then understand how it works: one wildcard eliminates every repeated ProxyJump and IdentityFile, domain stanzas set usernames for FQDNs, short aliases need their ...

A local LLM reads every article on your blog and writes the questions a developer would actually type into a search bar, each one mapped to the exact heading that answers it. The result is a build-tim...

Use dive to inspect every layer of a Docker image, spot wasted megabytes hidden by deleted files, and walk step by step from a 1 GB bloated image down to a tight, efficient build.

Two zsh functions that translate or summarize a Word, PDF, PowerPoint or Excel document without a single byte leaving your machine — Docling extracts the text locally, a local Ollama model does the tr...

A Docker batteries-included setup for Docling, IBM's document-conversion library: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and HTML files converted into clean Markdown, with GPU acceleration for machines with spa...

Tired of losing commands in the default CTRL+R maze? Atuin replaces your shell history with a full-featured TUI backed by SQLite — timestamps, context, multi-machine sync, and a clean comparison with ...

Build a "Copy as Markdown" button and a "View raw" link for your Docusaurus blog posts — a build-time plugin that writes a plain-Markdown mirror next to every article, plus the tiny React component th...

Chain VSCode Remote SSH, ProxyJump and Dev Containers to open a devcontainer that runs directly on a remote Linux server — so your scripts can reach services that are only accessible from that server'...

lazydocker is a single-binary terminal UI that shows every container, image, volume and network at a glance, with live stats and logs. This article containerizes it — no host install — and adds a glob...

A Dockerized devcontainer with two Python scripts: the first sends each Markdown blog post to a local Ollama model to generate tags, the second compares those tags across posts to suggest which articl...

Improve your dev workflow! Learn to install and set up Git inside your Docker container by sharing your host's configuration and SSH key, allowing you to run all Git commands without exiting the conta...

How this blog's .claude/ folder grew from a handful of slash commands into commands, hooks, skills, agents and rules working together — a practical learning path, including where a deterministic scrip...

A ninth easter egg for this blog, built for readers on a phone: shake it — in Chrome or in the installed PWA — and the meerkat mascot takes over the full screen, startled, for about two seconds. Cover...

A growing share of your readers arrive through an AI assistant — and what they get is your HTML, wrapped in navigation, React widgets and collapsed accordions. This article generates a plain-Markdown ...

AnythingLLM turns a pile of Markdown, Quarto, PDF, DOCX, Excel and PowerPoint files into something you can actually chat with, backed by a local Ollama model. Part 1 sets it up on a single machine; Pa...

Three zsh functions that together form a local, offline pre-commit quality gate: ai-review catches SOLID violations and naming issues, ai-secrets separates real hardcoded credentials from false positi...

Turn your local Ollama model into an on-demand unit test generator. A zsh function that reads a Bash, PHP or Python file, detects whether you already have tests for it, prints only the missing Bats/Pe...

Build a fully working "Was this article helpful?" widget for your Docusaurus blog. Step-by-step guide covering the PHP backend, React component, CSS module, Docusaurus swizzle, and an admin dashboard ...

Add hover tooltips to tricky code lines in your Docusaurus blog — powered by Claude, generated at build time, zero browser latency. Covers the remark plugin, the React renderer, and the CLI script.

A tour of eight small, discoverable easter eggs added to this Docusaurus blog — a hidden ASCII-art meerkat in the page source, a Konami-code sprite run, a console.log wink, a tab-away favicon swap, ro...

Discover ripgrep, the blazingly fast grep alternative written in Rust. Installation on Ubuntu/WSL2, ZSH configuration, practical shell functions, and real-world use cases that will transform how you s...

git worktree: Work on Two Branches at the Same Time

Add a typewriter animation to your Docusaurus Terminal component — command lines typed character-by-character, output lines appearing in sequence, with a blinking cursor and a click-to-skip escape hat...

Stop squinting at raw git diff outputs. Learn how to install and configure Delta to add syntax highlighting and side-by-side views in under 5 minutes.

Combine ripgrep and fzf with a bat syntax-highlighted preview panel to build an interactive code search — then open the result directly in VSCode at the exact matching line.

One enterprise company reportedly learned the hard way that AI doesn’t just write code and answer prompts. It can torch a budget at a pace most CFOs have never seen before. According to a report from ...

A practical guide to reducing token consumption in Claude Code; CLI commands, optimization of CLAUDE.md, and other context management.

Stop bloating your shell configuration. Learn why moving ZSH functions to standalone files improves performance and maintainability, featuring a universal project navigator.

Learn how to set up a dedicated Ollama server on your local network and configure VSCode with the Continue extension for a private, free AI coding assistant.

Use VS Code Remote - SSH: connect to production servers, and edit/execute remotely while avoiding common pitfalls.

Easily convert MS Office documents (Word, Excel) and PDFs into Markdown format with Microsoft's Markitdown tool. Includes step-by-step instructions for installation via Docker.

Build an interactive, searchable SSH host selector using FZF. Learn to modularize your SSH configurations, add rich documentation, and trigger advanced custom actions via a fast Terminal User Interfac...

Automate your Documentation as Code by building a Dockerized Python and Mermaid CLI stack to generate dynamic architecture diagrams directly from your codebase.

Drop the heavy Node toolchains. Build a fast, dependency-free asset minification pipeline using a declarative YAML manifest, Bash, and Docker.

Learn how to configure ZSH to automatically display your most recently updated Git branches whenever you enter a repository or check its status.

Learn how to deploy Ollama locally via Docker to run private, free LLMs and enable AI-powered code autocompletion in VSCode.