Terminal & Linux — The Unix Toolbox

My primary work environment is a terminal — usually WSL2 on Windows giving me both worlds, or a bare Linux box for services. Fluency here is not nostalgia; it is leverage. Every tool I use, including every agent, ultimately drives the same Unix primitives.

Daily drivers

Area	Tools
Shell	bash/zsh, pipes, jq, awk/sed one-liners, fzf
Remote	SSH keys and agents, tmux sessions, port forwarding
Services	systemd units, cron, log rotation
Containers	Docker, compose, minimal images
Inspection	htop, ss/netstat, strace, journalctl

This is also where my NetPilot philosophy came from: the best terminal tools do one job, stay fast, and compose. I hold my own tools — and my agents' output — to the same standard. A command that cannot be piped is a command I will rewrite.