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Efficiency: Move Faster in the Terminal🔗

Essentials gets you through an incident without leaving the terminal. Efficiency is what those same moves look like once you've done them a hundred times — persistent sessions that survive a dropped connection, filtering instead of memorizing exact names, a real branching workflow for infrastructure changes, and GitHub without a browser tab.

Who This Is For🔗

Efficiency assumes you:

  • Already SSH into production boxes and know your way around a shell
  • Want the moves that become muscle memory with daily use, not a first introduction
  • Are ready for colleague-to-colleague tone — no hand-holding, full working context assumed

What You'll Be Able to Do🔗

Situation Article
SSH itself has become a bottleneck — too many hosts, too many flags SSH Mastery
Your SSH connection drops mid-task and you need the session to still be there Terminal Multiplexing with tmux
You're navigating dozens of pods, branches, or files and don't want to type exact names FZF Mastery
One AI CLI gave you an answer and you want a second opinion before you act on it Multiple AI CLIs, One tmux Session
Two people are touching the same infrastructure file on different branches Git Workflows for Infrastructure
You want PRs, CI status, and reviews without leaving the shell GitHub CLI

The Articles🔗

  1. SSH Mastery — ~/.ssh/config aliases, jump hosts via ProxyJump, and local port forwarding
  2. Terminal Multiplexing with tmux — sessions that outlive a dropped connection
  3. FZF Mastery — one filtering primitive wired into file, process, and branch selection
  4. Multiple AI CLIs, One tmux Session — splitting panes across more than one AI CLI to cross-check an answer
  5. Git Workflows for Infrastructure — the feature-branch workflow built for IaC, and re-validating YAML after a merge conflict
  6. GitHub CLI — PRs, CI runs, and reviews from the shell, with gh api piping straight into jq

More Efficiency topics — shell productivity, direnv, and remote editing — are still on the way.

Start with SSH Mastery if you're still typing full connection strings, or jump straight to Terminal Multiplexing with tmux if a dropped session just cost you work.

After Efficiency, the Mastery tier covers turning what you just did by hand into something that never has to happen manually again — automation, Git internals, and CI-driven ops work. (Coming soon)