I have a CLI based hybrid setup on my MBP (M5 48GB) and it has proven to be very effective.

1. I have a $20 Codex subscription that is more than enough for my work. I use a 75-35 model where I used higher models (Sol/Astra for 35% of the heavier tasks and lower models 75% for other tasks. Sometimes I also use Free OpenRouter models for minor tasks.

2. I use many local models like Qwen3.8-27b/Gemma-4-26b and some 9B models. I also heavily use voice/vision models like Kokoro, QwenTTS for marketing and product videos.

3. Pi exclusively, which I have tweaked for my hybrid setup.

4. I have my own custom agent orchestration that routes between Codex and local models based on the task.

5. I used OpenClaw for a bespoke market research task once, it worked flawlessly.

“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”

Thank you for inventing Docker, it truly changed the life of many developers.

I was there when dotCloud announced Docker in 2013 and it was truly pragmatic. I had previously burned my hands on LXC, Juju Charms and Vagrant to containerize the apps, but it was all a house of cards. I remember helping a friend ship his whole Vagrant Box to the interview panel for a job!

It’s incredible to think about how much boilerplate Docker removed right at it's launch. Thank you.

> it truly changed the life of many developers.

That's for sure, especially for local dev.

Many folks are great writers, but bad editors and the meandering intro is what kills most blog posts for me. Too bad because we really need more personal stories.

I start with the conclusion in the first paragraph[1], and the user can decide if it’s worth their time or not. Unless you’re Gabriel Garcia Marquez, no one’s going to read your rambling.

[1] https://samkhawase.com/blog/email-is-crazy/

With all due respect, PG and JS were titans of an era where attention spans were not short. I am not sure if that strategy would work in the LLM-era.

I’m lazy so With fish, I just type a part of the command and press up few times to get to where I want. There’s also fish-fzf.

I've relied on this so much that I copy my entire history between machines...

Self hosted Atuin would do this for you too. Unless you don't want the added tooling/complexity

Ahh I only do this when reinstalling or moving to a new laptop but it's good to know about Atuin for the future!