Code agents are fun. I use them every day. They fit neatly into the tools I already use: Bash, Zellij, Git, and more. But if you live in a terminal, a lot of "code agents" feel like hostile web apps ported into a CLI.

A minimalist personal stack: Git for ownership, Markdown for content, and tiny scripts plus AI to automate daily notes, news, and publishing

eBPF is one of those technologies that immediately feels powerful but rarely feels friendly at the start. I wanted to experiment with user‑space probes using Rust and Aya, but the setup itself was solid, but the combination of ARM processors, Podman security constraints, and Aya’s toolchain requirements made the early steps unexpectedly tricky: a Mac Studio M3 Ultra as the primary machine and a Linux laptop where container‑based attempts (Podman) were unreliable. Aya itself pulls in a non‑trivial toolchain, and I initially ended up on nightly Rust with a scattered set of workarounds.

One unexpectedly joyful category of software: making tiny useful apps for people you personally know intimately. Not a startup. Not a “platform opportunity”. Just shipping a thing that actually moves the needle for exactly one real human.