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11 articles tagged with #tools
What 1 Year of AI Coding Assistants Taught Me About Developer Productivity — After the Hype
84% of devs use AI tools daily, but trust fell to 29%. After a year with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Windsurf, here's what actually works.
TypeScript 7 in Monorepos: What I Learned Setting Up tsgo with Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm Workspaces
After my TypeScript 7 article, readers asked the right question: does the Go compiler actually work in a real monorepo? I tested tsgo with Turborepo, Nx, and pnpm workspaces. Here's what works, what breaks, and the symlink bug nobody talks about.
Traefik Middleware Patterns for Production — What Actually Works After 6 Months
After migrating 47 Ingress resources from NGINX to Traefik, I learned which middleware patterns survive contact with production. Here are 6 that do — with real YAML and the mistakes I made so you don't have to.
TypeScript 7 Rewrote Its Compiler in Go — And It's 10x Faster
Microsoft ported the TypeScript compiler from JavaScript to Go. VS Code went from 78s to 7.5s. Here's what changed, what breaks, and whether you should care.
Why I Stopped Using ESLint for TypeScript — And Started Using Biome
I spent years maintaining ESLint configs across 12 projects. Then I tried Biome — a single Rust binary that replaced ESLint + Prettier in under an hour. Here's my honest migration story, the real performance numbers, and what I still miss.
TypeScript 6 Erased My Build Step — And That Changes Everything
I deleted tsc, esbuild, and ts-node from my project. TypeScript 6 with Node's type stripping runs .ts files directly. Here's what broke, what didn't, and why I'm not going back.
Why I Ditched Kubernetes for Local Development
Every week someone tells me I should be running Kubernetes locally. They're wrong. Here's the honest case against k8s for local dev — and what I use instead.
Why Senior Devs Still Prefer Vim in 2026
Every year someone declares Vim dead. Yet senior devs keep it in their toolbox. Here's the honest case for learning — or at least respecting — modal editing.
Docker Compose Patterns Every Developer Should Know
From health checks to profiles, these Docker Compose patterns will save you hours of debugging and make your dev workflow actually enjoyable.
Git Rebase vs Merge: When to Use Which (2026 Edition)
After years of flame wars and bad rebase-induced incidents, here's the pragmatic rule set I actually follow for branching strategy.
The Terminal Setup That Made Me 3x Faster
I spent 6 months refining my terminal workflow. These are the exact tools, aliases, and configs that stuck — and the ones I dropped.