The golden terminal

A while back I wrote about the overwhelming stuff there is around AI. Today I'll layout 3 relative easy tools that make my life, as a developer, a lot easier.

1. All in terminal
I'm using Claude Code for most of my daily routine work. And I find working in the terminal both confinient as powerful. It is as old as the computer itself and as powerful as it can get. With just a few commands one can get almost anything installed and configured as well executed. And AI is really, really good with the terminal.
So my first tool has nothing to do with AI, but all with commands: a Linux based OS (even a Mac works). I'm currently using Ubuntu (no thanks to the push of Linus Tech Tips and Valves Steam OS buzz).

2. Terminal+
Whoever worked with Claude Code, or any long running terminal process, knows this feeling: it is time to wrap up but you can't turn off your pc because it will kill your work. I use tmux on that (remote) Ubuntu machine and I will never shut it down. Tmux is a terminal with sessions that keeps running until you deliberately turn off your machine or kill the session.

3. Terminal+ everywhere
A remote Linux machine, tmux installed and some portforwarding and I can connect and work from anywhere, anytime without ever loosing work when closing my laptop. And I found an amazing (open source) app that bring it mobile: MuxPod. With this I can steer Claude on the go and keep going without having to sit through long running sessions.

Work in development is changing and these tools help me going until the dust settles.

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