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 …
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 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 …
Every time I set up a new Mac — or help a colleague set up theirs — I see the same pattern. Someone Googles “Oh My Zsh best setup,” follows a 2021 tutorial, installs 20 plugins they’ll never use, picks Powerlevel10k because every screenshot looks gorgeous, and ends up with a terminal that takes 3 …
My MacBook Air M2 has been my daily driver for SwiftUI development, React projects, and the occasional DevOps pipeline wrangling. 16GB RAM, 512GB storage. It still handles everything I throw at it without breaking a sweat. So when Apple dropped three new MacBooks in March 2026 — the $599 Neo, the M5 Air, and the …
