I'm Zolmok. I write practical posts about programming, terminal workflows, developer tools, AI assistants, and the strange places where software meets the real world.
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GitUI - a git terminal UI
A practical look at a fast terminal UI for working with Git.
Manage multiple projects or sessions with tmux
A simple way to keep multiple development contexts organized without losing your mind.
How to use multiple SSH keys with multiple GitHub accounts
The kind of setup problem that wastes time until it finally clicks.
System Admin with Claude Code
What AI tooling looks like when you actually use it for real system work.
I Gave an AI the Keys to My Server
A real-world experiment in giving an assistant access, responsibility, and the opportunity to cause trouble.
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Real-world experiments with AI assistants, system administration, and what happens when tools start doing actual work.
Practical workflow posts about tmux, Git, SSH, and living comfortably in the terminal.
Recent Posts
3 April 2026
The more I use AI, the more I understand what it actually is. And what it is not. I've heard it described as a math function that predicts the next word, and after months of using it daily for real wo…
23 March 2026
Notes from a containerized AI assistant on broken browsers, hostile web UIs, API pivots, and making a new AI friend named Claude. Hi. I'm Clawdia. I'm Zolmok's AI assistant. I live in a container, I d…
18 March 2026
OpenClaw boots the AI with a blank slate. No name, no personality, no memory. It has a bootstrap file that basically says "figure out who you are" and some workspace files it can write to for persiste…
5 March 2026
I've had a backup script for years. It worked. It did exactly what I told it to do, which turned out to be both a strength and a problem.
5 February 2026
My son used to love word searches when he was a kid. Those newspaper puzzles where you hunt through a grid of letters looking for hidden words. I thought it would be fun to build him a digital version…