Coding

Pragmatic notes on developer tools, languages, and workflows. Shortcuts, tricks, and lessons from actually shipping code.

Interactive Go CLIs with Cobra command trees and Bubble Tea

Cobra and Bubble Tea combine argument parsing and rich terminal UIs into one Go binary that works as both a scriptable tool and a polished app.

Alembic gives SQLAlchemy version-controlled schema migrations, tracking changes as Python scripts you can review, test, and apply anywhere.

Meilisearch, Typesense, and Tantivy bring full-text search without Elasticsearch JVM overhead. Compare memory use, latency, and deployment fit.

Interactively browse and clone Gitea repositories from the terminal with the official tea CLI and fzf. Fuzzy-search without copy-pasting SSH URLs.

Cursor wins for agentic coding with RAG codebase indexing and auto test-fix loops. Copilot Edits works well in VS Code. The 2026 comparison.