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 …
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: …
You’re at a coffee shop, doing some online banking. You glance at the address bar — there’s a little lock icon next to the URL. Safe, right? Not exactly. That lock icon means your bank can hear what you’re saying, and nobody in the middle can eavesdrop on the conversation. Good. But it doesn’t hide …
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 …
