Speed up terminal navigation with zoxide and fzf

A plain-language guide to zoxide (a smarter cd) and fzf (a general-purpose fuzzy finder) — what they are, how to install and configure each on its own, and how they combine into a terminal that feels like it can read your mind.

July 26, 2026 · 9 min · Omar Crosby

lexicon: a shared language for requirements that compiles to Gherkin and Gauge

A previous post argued that Dev, QA, and Product read the same requirement differently not because anyone is careless, but because prose leaves three things implicit — the precondition, the action, and the outcome — and that a structured format forces those three things into the open. It also argued that the specific tool doesn’t matter much: Gherkin’s Given/When/Then is one well-known way to get the structure, not the only one, and a team is free to define its own. ...

July 16, 2026 · 12 min · Omar Crosby