Coding

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

Alembic migrations: from dev to production rolling deploys

Alembic gives SQLAlchemy version-controlled database migrations, tracking schema 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.