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Stop Guessing in Copilot CLI and Start Typing Slash Commands That Actually Save Time I spent my first week with Copilot CLI (GitHub’s terminal-based coding assistant that runs in your shell, not…
An open source developer faces a legal threat from a corporation In late 2025, the maintainer of a small but widely-used open source library received a cease-and-desist letter from a Fortune 500…
I Cloned My Repo Three Times Before I Learned This Trick I have a private monorepo (a single repository holding many related projects that share tooling and dependencies) at work with about…
Every developer (and most non-developers) needs these free tools I have been running a small software consulting business for eight years. Before that, I worked inside larger companies. Across both, the list…
Stop Typing Passwords Into GitHub Forever I had a small heart attack last month when a coworker screenshared a terminal session and a personal access token scrolled past in plaintext. The token…
I saved $14,000 a year by switching to these free cloud tools I run a small consulting firm. We are five people. Our annual software bill used to be around $32,000. I…
Your AI Arena Prompts Are Probably Training Tomorrow’s Models Without Your Consent I was running a benchmark suite (a fixed set of prompts used to measure model quality across releases) against three…
Format text into tables with the column command I needed a clean ASCII table for a status report on Friday and discovered I had been doing it the hard way for years.…
Stop Letting AI Grep Through JAR Files Last Tuesday I watched Copilot CLI unzip a JAR file into /tmp and grep through .class files for a method signature. The thing is, that…
From Manual Commands to Consistent Workflows with Copilot CLI I have been living inside a terminal for most of a decade, and the thing I keep relearning is that the terminal is…
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