What Is fzf?

I used to open files the slow way: cd into a directory, ls to see what’s there, maybe find with a half-remembered filename, then pass it to whatever program I needed. Every time, I’d lose a few seconds hunting for the right path. Multiply that by dozens of files a day, and it adds up to real friction.

Then I found fzf, and file selection stopped being a chore. fzf is a fuzzy finder that…

What Is Claude Code?

For years, “AI in my editor” meant autocomplete. Copilot would suggest the next few tokens, I’d hit tab, and that was the interaction. Useful, but shallow. The AI stayed in one file, ignored my tests, and had no way to know when its suggestion broke the build.

Claude Code works at a different level. It runs in my terminal, reads my files, runs my commands, and talks back in plain language. When…

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What Is Zoxide?

I used to navigate my filesystem one directory at a time. cd ~/Projects, then ls, then cd websites, then ls, then cd jeffbaileyblog, then ls, then cd hugo. Every trip to a familiar directory cost me four or five commands. Tab-completion helped a little, but I still had to remember the path.

Then I installed zoxide, and cd started reading my mind.

What zoxide actually…

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