Essential tools for SREs and platform engineers — Git, jq, yq, terminal IDEs, and productivity tooling that removes friction from infrastructure work. https://tools.bradpenney.io/ Brad Penney en Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:08:13 -0000 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:08:13 -0000 1440 MkDocs RSS plugin - v1.19.0 https://tools.bradpenney.io/images/exploring_software_development_tools.png https://tools.bradpenney.io/ The daily tools that separate a working professional from someone still fighting their environment — Git fundamentals, HTTP debugging, JSON/YAML wrangling, regex, and reading a struggling server. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/overview/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:15:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/overview/ Professional terminal workflows for platform engineers — persistent sessions, fuzzy navigation, a real Git workflow for infrastructure, and managing GitHub from the shell. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/overview/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/overview/ Manage PRs, watch CI, and hit the GitHub API without leaving the shell — gh brings the browser's GitHub workflow to the terminal, scriptable and pipeable into jq. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/github_cli/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:30:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/github_cli/ The feature-branch workflow built for IaC — peer review and CI before anything touches production, plus the one extra validation step a YAML merge conflict needs that code doesn't. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/git_workflows/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:15:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/git_workflows/ Splitting a tmux session across more than one AI CLI, and the specific move of pasting one agent's answer into another and asking what it thinks — treating models as independent reviewers, not one oracle. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/multiple_ai_clis_tmux/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:00:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/multiple_ai_clis_tmux/ fzf is a universal interactive filter, not just a history search — the primitive behind picking a pod, a branch, or a file without memorizing exact names. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/fzf_advanced/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:45:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/fzf_advanced/ tmux keeps a session alive on the server even when your connection breaks — sessions, windows, and panes for incident war rooms, connection resilience, and shared troubleshooting. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/tmux/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:30:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/tmux/ You're SSH'd into a server with only vi available. Four commands — insert, escape, save, quit — get you in, fixed, and out without needing the rest of Vim's legendary learning curve. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/vim_survival_mode/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:15:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/vim_survival_mode/ yq is jq for YAML — auditing Kubernetes manifests for missing resource limits, merging config overlays, and editing indentation-sensitive files without a sed script waiting to break. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/yq_wrangling_yaml/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/yq_wrangling_yaml/ jq is sed, awk, and grep purpose-built for JSON — filtering API responses, Kubernetes manifests, and structured logs during incident response without wrestling raw text. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/jq_parsing_json/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:45:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/jq_parsing_json/ The six regex characters that solve 80% of log-searching problems — finding IPs, filtering error codes, and transforming text with grep, sed, and capture groups. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/regex_for_sres/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:30:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/regex_for_sres/ The SRE's vital signs — htop, free, df, iostat, ss, and dmesg, run in order, to turn a vague 'something's slow' into a specific bottleneck before you've been on the box a minute. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/terminal_diagnostics/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:15:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/terminal_diagnostics/ Beyond ssh user@host — the ~/.ssh/config aliases, port forwarding, and ProxyJump tunneling that turn SSH from a login prompt into your primary interface for remote platform work. https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/ssh_mastery/ Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/efficiency/ssh_mastery/ Curling an API and reading the JSON back is routine. Now watch what's really on the wire: curl -v and browser DevTools, for headers, status codes, and the full request lifecycle. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/web/inspecting_http_traffic/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/web/inspecting_http_traffic/ Learn Git fundamentals for platform engineers. Install Git, create your first repository, understand the three states, and start tracking your scripts professionally. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/git/git_basics/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:43:00 -0400 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/git/git_basics/ Learn how platform engineers collaborate with Git. Clone repositories, push and pull changes, work with GitHub/GitLab, and sync with your team professionally. https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/git/git_collaboration/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:43:00 -0400 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/essentials/git/git_collaboration/ Professional guides for SREs and Platform Engineers to master Git, JQ, Tmux, and Neovim. Remove tool friction and focus on building reliable infrastructure. https://tools.bradpenney.io/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:57:00 -0300 Exploring Software Development Tools https://tools.bradpenney.io/