Tag: productivity

Stop leaking secrets, dependencies, and OS garbage into git. Here are the .gitignore patterns that save you from disaster.

System prompts are your secret weapon. How they work, why they matter more than you think, and 5 patterns that actually change model behavior.

Stop committing broken code. Git hooks catch mistakes before they hit CI, save hours of debugging, and make your team love you.

BookStack uses a strict book/chapter hierarchy; Wiki.js is a linked web of pages. Both run in Docker with LDAP/SSO, pick the right one for your homelab.

That filing cabinet won't sort itself. Set up Paperless-ngx in Docker with Tesseract OCR, auto-tagging, IMAP email ingestion, and PostgreSQL for a searchable archive.

Compare Continue.dev, Cody, and Tabby, three self-hosted AI code assistants that keep your code private, cost nothing per token, and work offline.

Master SSH ControlMaster, ControlPath, and ControlPersist. Reuse connections for lightning-fast SSH, SCP, and rsync operations.

Master ~/.ssh/config: Host aliases, HostName, User, Port, IdentityFile, ProxyJump. Stop typing long SSH commands. One-line setup.

Copy and paste from the Linux terminal without a mouse. Master xclip, xsel, wl-copy, and integrate clipboard with tmux and SSH.

By default bash history is lost across multiple terminal sessions. Fix it with HISTAPPEND and PROMPT_COMMAND so nothing gets overwritten.

vim survival guide, modes, motions, search and replace, macros, splits, and the config tweaks that make it actually enjoyable to use.

Master tmux for dev work: sessions, windows, panes, layout scripting, hooks, and pane syncing, the commands that turn one terminal into many.