I bet you are reading this on your browser. Are you certified to use that thing? Where did you get your license? Do you know how to operate it? No seriously? Do you? DO YOU???
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It's sometimes exhausting to be a developer.
I knew this going in and developed a few habits to keep me in the loop. This became more important once the rate of what I needed to know increased. Where today things are almost exhausting to keep up with.
Developer tooling that goes beyond the basics, and what I've used for over a decade. The tools I use aren't new, or super fancy or anything explicitly tied with AI. But I've found them very effective and use them on all my machines. Recently, I started re-building my dotfiles repo, and it made me realize that going over my current "terminal workflow" might be an interesting read, as its very unique to me. So lets hop in and see what tools I've been using to help me stay productive and look cool in the terminal hehe, but first lets jump back to my college days.
One reason why I started this blog is to create a space that is intentional about its use of AI, with a clear goal to not actually leverage it for content generation. That said, this blog does use AI for a number of other things, which I'll go over in this post.
I like standards, you should too. Especially when it comes to AI, which is still somewhat a wild west. Having some standardization helps with transferable patterns regardless of what agentic AI tool you are using.
Welcome to the first official "reading" post of 2026! As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to split up development and reading topics into their own posts so I can focus on each a little more. This way I have something more targeted to write and ramble about rather than combining what is usually two somewhat disjointed topics. I of course do more than code and read, but in regards to actually writing about it and shoving it onto the internet, I think these two topics are good targets and worth writing about and hopefully worth reading!
Catching up from a no activity in a majority of 2025, looking into 2026 and beyond. As with most things, AI has come for this blog, but don't worry this is still very much "human powered" (for better or worse)!
A year in review
A year in review
A year in review