maker 
Every few weeks, someone asks me which terminal they should switch to. The question usually arrives shaped like this: “iTerm or tmux or cmux or something else — which is best for a developer in 2026?” I’ve started giving the same annoying answer: the question is wrong. Not in a clever-internet-person way. Wrong in a …
I recently realized something embarrassing. I spend hours configuring security groups in AWS, setting up least-privilege IAM policies, and reviewing PR diffs for credential leaks — then I go home and put my MacBook on the same flat network as a $15 smart plug running firmware from 2021. My development machine, with SSH keys to …
A few months ago I timed myself during a typical development day. Not the coding — just the overhead. Waiting for builds. Re-signing a provisioning profile that expired without warning. Copy-pasting the same networking boilerplate into a new feature. Tapping through 12 screens to test one change. Switching between Xcode, Safari (for docs), and Terminal …
I spent three years tweaking my terminal. Custom oh-my-zsh theme. Fourteen plugins. A .zshrc file so long it took noticeable seconds to open a new tab. I’d invested so much time configuring that I convinced myself all of it was essential. Then one day I had to set up a fresh machine. And I realized: …
I used to dread shipping builds. Not the coding part — that was fine. The deployment part. Open Xcode. Wait for indexing. Archive. Wait. Upload to App Store Connect. Wait. Realize I forgot to bump the build number. Archive again. Wait again. The whole ritual took 20-30 minutes of my attention, and I couldn’t do …
