A WezTerm terminal config

By Ian Homer - 04 Aug 2025

Terminal emulators often become personal tools, reflecting years of accumulated preferences, workflow optimizations and moments of madness. After years of cobbling together my Tmux and Kitty setup (which worked kind of worked fine), I threw it all away about a year ago for WezTerm giving me a simpler config and setup.

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A containerised sandbox for Claude code

By Ian Homer - 31 Jul 2025

I've been using Claude Code for a few weeks now, watching it navigate codebases and execute commands with impressive competence. It's genuinely helpful – the kind of tool that makes you wonder how you managed without it. But there's this nagging voice in the back of every platform engineer's head that asks uncomfortable questions at 2 AM: What if it decides to explore that .ssh directory?

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Exploring the new native env file support in Node.js

By Ian Homer - 10 Oct 2024

Back in 2011, The Twelve-Factor App laid out some fundamental principles about keeping configuration separate from code. It became the go-to guide for how we handle environment variables, influencing everything from Docker's ENV directives to how we structure modern applications.

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Running local AI code assist to power your IDEs with Ollama

By Ian Homer - 24 May 2024

I'm intrigued in how effective it is to run code assist models locally. I'm keen to explore the available IDE extensions and AI models. Let's start with VSCode, the Code GPT extension and models run locally with Ollama.

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