Weekly Tech Journal β€” [Week 42 of 2025] (October 13–19)

A personal recap of things I explored, learned, or questioned in tech this week.

πŸ”§ What I Worked On

  • Started the creation of a better local setup at work

🌐 Homelab Updates

  • None for this week

πŸ“š What I Learned

  • I learned how to properly setup TERM xterm-256color and screen-256color in .zshrc considering inside and outside tmux.
  • How to setup EKS
  • How to use k9s
  • Dev services in Quarkus

🧠 Things That Surprised Me

  • K3s is really easy to setup
  • Yazi is amazing
    • I still don’t know exactly how to use it in my workflow, but definetely it’ll be part of the official setup.
  • Kitty
    • It can have the same shortcuts of tmux.
    • It is really fast compared to the rest of terminal emulators
  • The snake in the URL

πŸ“Ž Links or Resources I Found Useful

πŸ“Ή Youtube Videos I watched

πŸ’¬ Final Thoughts

  • I’m still focused on getting familiar with the team I just joined, even though I could be learning or doing other things on the side.