Comparisons, guides, and ideas for developers who live in the terminal.
Twelve chapters on running multi-agent systems after the v0 - orchestration, auth across agent boundaries, federated memory, partial failure. Four chapters readable today, eight as drafts complete. PDF + EPUB + free updates. $39.
Twelve chapters on the discipline of retrieval after the v0 - hybrid search done seriously, eval that doesn't go stale, drift, and the re-embedding plan you wish you'd written before the model upgrade. PDF + EPUB + free updates. $39.
Twelve chapters of practitioner-grade MCP server engineering, drawn from shipping fourteen @yawlabs/* servers. Protocol, transport, schema, auth, error handling, hosting, security, four case studies. PDF + EPUB + free updates. $39.
Twelve chapters of operator-side discipline for running Claude Code as your daily driver. The CLAUDE.md contract, the harness, subagents, memory, capacity, scope, the seven hazards, and what survives across teams. PDF + EPUB + free updates. $39.
forum.yaw.sh is live: self-hosted Discourse on AWS for support, tips, feature requests, and showcases. Why a forum, why now, and the boring stack behind it.
An opinionated bundle of rules, skills, and agents for Claude Code - layered, not forked. How the per-session overlay works, what's in the box, and the safety story behind sharing conversation history across sessions without ever clobbering it.
MCP joined the Linux Foundation. 88 tests across 8 categories grade any MCP server A to F in 30 seconds. Open methodology, CC BY 4.0.
Five real audit questions - stale devices, "who broke DNS at 2am," ACL diffs, OIDC subject drift, key rotation - and how an agent composes the API calls to answer each in one turn. Plus the four design choices that keep it from turning into a footgun.
The honest tradeoff between local and remote MCP servers. When to run each, why the distinction matters for AI agents and teams.
I uninstalled ten GUI apps this year. These are the terminal tools that made them unnecessary.
Real-world Tailscale gotchas on AWS: MagicDNS failures, subnet routing surprises, ACL lockouts, and the fixes that actually work.
What the MCP server actually exposes - 99 tools across 16 areas, the safety hints, the profile presets, and how to install it in Claude Code, Cursor, or anything else that speaks MCP.
Terraform is under the BSL and owned by IBM. CloudFormation has zero licensing risk, managed state, and day-one AWS support. The trade-off has flipped.
What works, what's rough, and what we'd do differently after building MCP servers for Tailscale, SSH, Caddy, npm, and more.
A user sent us 27 performance findings. Here's what was real, what wasn't, and what you can't fix.
A poisoned GitHub Action compromised a popular AI package. 40,000 downloads in 40 minutes. Your CI/CD pipeline is an attack surface.
AI agents trust your context files blindly. ctxlint catches stale paths, wrong commands, and wasted tokens.
AWS Lambda can now pause, checkpoint, and resume. Here's when Durable Functions replace Step Functions and when they don't.
A METR study found developers are 19% slower with AI tools. AI code has 2.74x more vulnerabilities. 72% reject vibe coding. Here's why.
A fast native terminal vs a full developer workstation. Different philosophies, real trade-offs.
The BSL license change was the crack. The IBM acquisition was the earthquake. Now the IaC landscape is fracturing.
Yaw automatically starts ssh-agent and loads your keys. Git push, GitHub, and SSH connections work out of the box.
An AWS ALB handles routing, SSL, health checks, and redirects natively. Here's when you can drop Nginx and when you still need it.
eksctl handles EKS clusters, nodegroups, IRSA, and upgrades in one YAML file. Even alongside Terraform.
One small EC2 instance replaces all your SSH tunnels, bastion hosts, and VPN clients.
A practical guide to the major AI CLI tools, what they do, and how to set them up.
A practical comparison of the top terminal emulators available on Windows today.
Nested stacks promise reusability but deliver coupled blast radius. Isolated stacks with parameter sharing are simpler and safer.
A decade of terminal frustration, six tools that should have been one, and why AI changed the math on building it myself.
DBeaver is the go-to database GUI. But what if your terminal already has a database client built in?
MobaXterm has been a Windows SSH staple for years. We compare it to yaw's modern approach.
Both manage SSH connections, but one is a full terminal. Here's how they differ.
Both are Electron-based and cross-platform. We compare features, connections, and AI support.
Two modern terminals with AI built in. We compare privacy, features, platform support, and pricing.
Windows Terminal is free and built in. Yaw adds SSH management, database connections, and AI. When does the upgrade make sense?
Practical approaches to organizing SSH access when you're managing dozens of servers.
iTerm2 is the macOS default for power users. Yaw brings connections, AI, and cross-platform parity. We compare the two.
Your terminal sees everything. Here's why usage tracking in terminal apps deserves more scrutiny.
Claude Code runs in your terminal. Which terminal gives you the best experience?
Tools for organizing and managing SSH connections across servers, from standalone apps to terminal-integrated solutions.
Terminal emulators that integrate AI assistants natively. What's available and how they compare.
From the built-in Terminal.app to modern alternatives. Here are the best options for Mac.