Dev Tools

The single most famous fact about Python stopped being unconditionally true last year, and I found out from a beginner course. The language didn't sneak past me. I left the room where it changes.

Two maintained ways to run AI coding assistance on a local model with Ollama, so your code never leaves your machine: Cline inside VS Code, and Zed.

Flat-rate AI taught us to burn tokens like they were free. Metered billing puts a price back on the sloppy prompt, and that visibility is a feature.

VSCodium, Void, Zed, Windsurf — and back to VS Code. After years of switching editors, the things that stuck weren't the editors.

Generate memes from the command line with ImageMagick 7: setup, the classic meme command, and variations worth knowing.

Why scraping didn't die when LLMs arrived, and how I decide between Beautiful Soup and Scrapy for a given job.

Why I keep Zed open next to VS Code, the four settings that made the switch stick, and an honest take on its AI panel.

What dotfiles are, why they pay off, and how I manage mine with GNU Stow, Homebrew, and an install script you can clone and run in one command.

Install VSCodium with Homebrew, set up themes and plugins, and wire in GitHub Copilot via the .vsix workaround.

Void editor plus a local AI model is a private dev pair that keeps your code off vendor servers. Install, settings, integration.

Set up Jupyter Notebook inside a Python virtual environment, then put it to work with a small RPG-inspired demo.

Set up Python on macOS with pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv, with the why behind each step and the version-conflict pitfalls to avoid.

Why Homebrew earns the install on a new Mac, how to set it up, and the brews worth knowing once it's there.