tool-review
The terminal is the most-used app on a solo builder's Mac. Not the browser. Not Slack. The terminal. And in 2026, three very different philosophies are competing for that screen real estate: Warp bets on AI, Ghostty bets on raw performance, and iTerm2 bets on doing everything you
tool-review
WordPress powers 43% of the web. That number gets cited in every CMS comparison as if popularity were a recommendation. It's not. Popularity is inertia. And for a solo builder choosing a publishing platform in 2026, inertia is the enemy of a clean stack. Ghost handles blogging, newsletters,
tool-review
I used to run Spotlight for search, Rectangle for window management, Flycut for clipboard history, TextExpander for snippets, and a handful of Automator workflows for scripts. Raycast replaced all five. It's free. That's not a marketing claim. I uninstalled four apps in the same week I
tool-review
ffmpeg does the work of five SaaS subscriptions from a single command line. Video compression, audio extraction, thumbnail generation, format conversion, batch processing. If you're creating any kind of content as a solo builder and you're not using it, you're either overpaying for tools
tool-review
Nginx makes you configure SSL yourself. Caddy does it automatically, for every domain, with zero lines of certificate configuration. That difference sounds small until you've spent an afternoon debugging expired certs at 2 AM. If you're self-hosting anything on your own hardware, Caddy is the web
tool-review
WordPress powers 43% of the web. That number gets cited in every CMS comparison as if popularity were a recommendation. It's not. Popularity is inertia. And for a solo builder choosing a publishing platform in 2026, inertia is the enemy of a clean stack. Ghost handles blogging, newsletters,
tool-review
I used to run Spotlight for search, Rectangle for window management, Flycut for clipboard history, TextExpander for snippets, and a handful of Automator workflows for scripts. Raycast replaced all five. It's free. That's not a marketing claim. I uninstalled four apps in the same week I
tool-review
ffmpeg does the work of five SaaS subscriptions from a single command line. Video compression, audio extraction, thumbnail generation, format conversion, batch processing. If you're creating any kind of content as a solo builder and you're not using it, you're either overpaying for tools
tool-review
Nginx makes you configure SSL yourself. Caddy does it automatically, for every domain, with zero lines of certificate configuration. That difference sounds small until you've spent an afternoon debugging expired certs at 2 AM. If you're self-hosting anything on your own hardware, Caddy is the web
tool-review
WordPress powers 43% of the web. That number gets cited in every CMS comparison as if popularity were a recommendation. It's not. Popularity is inertia. And for a solo builder choosing a publishing platform in 2026, inertia is the enemy of a clean stack. Ghost handles blogging, newsletters,
tool-review
I used to run Spotlight for search, Rectangle for window management, Flycut for clipboard history, TextExpander for snippets, and a handful of Automator workflows for scripts. Raycast replaced all five. It's free. That's not a marketing claim. I uninstalled four apps in the same week I
tool-review
ffmpeg does the work of five SaaS subscriptions from a single command line. Video compression, audio extraction, thumbnail generation, format conversion, batch processing. If you're creating any kind of content as a solo builder and you're not using it, you're either overpaying for tools