Developer Tools
Git, VS Code, the terminal and Linux — the tools you touch every day, used properly.
Developer Tools8 min readThe Caret Range Changes Meaning Below Version 1.0
A caret range allows every future minor, unless the version starts with zero. It then narrows, and those dependencies quietly freeze.
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The Cron Bug That Runs Your Job Far More Often Than You Meant
Set both day-of-month and day-of-week and cron ORs them, not ANDs. Why "first Monday" schedules misfire, and the fix.
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- Developer Tools3 min read
Developer Productivity: Systems That Survive a Bad Week
Practical habits for engineers — protecting deep work, cutting context switches, and automating decisions that waste thought.
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- Developer Tools2 min read
Linux Command Line: The Commands Worth Knowing Properly
A working set of shell commands — searching, processing text, inspecting processes and diagnosing a server, with flags.
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- Developer Tools2 min read
VS Code: The Features That Actually Save Time
Multi-cursor editing, the command palette, workspace settings and debugging — the features worth learning properly.
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- Developer Tools2 min read
Undoing Almost Anything in Git
A lookup table for Git recovery — uncommitting, unstaging, restoring deleted branches, and why reflog makes it reversible.
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- Developer Tools2 min read
GitHub Actions: A CI Pipeline That Stays Fast
A practical GitHub Actions setup for Node — caching, concurrency cancellation, matrix builds, and the secrets mistakes to avoid.
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- Developer Tools3 min read
Git Rebase vs Merge: Which to Use and When
What each command does to your history, the golden rule of rebasing, and a branching workflow that avoids the arguments entirely.
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