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CODEX TEBOU
How to Be a Beast
being a commonplace book of the machines, the agents and the works by which Cole Tebou builds things, set down leaf by leaf and catalogued after the manner of Callimachus
The tour of Cole Tebou's whole setup, from the phone in a pocket to agents running on AWS servers, and the handful of habits that make one person work like a team.
The Ten Tables
Callimachus sorted the half-million scrolls of Alexandria into the Pinakes, tables by subject. This library keeps ten.
The Desk
The machines on and around the desk
II16 foliosThe Shell
Terminals, the multiplexer, the prompt and the dotfiles
III13 foliosThe Automata
Agents, their hooks, their messages and their memory
IV11 foliosThe Workshop
Git, worktrees, tests, linters and protocols
V10 foliosThe Works
Servers, DNS, hosting, CI and infrastructure as code
VI4 foliosThe Observatory
Traces, errors, logs and archives
VII11 foliosThe Atelier
Making apps for phones, watches, desktops and browsers
VIII5 foliosThe Mint
Bitcoin, mining, wallets and privacy
IX1 folioThe Ledger
What it all costs
X3 foliosThe Library
About this wiki and how to add to it
Studies in Ink
Drawings you can work: press the keys, follow the flows, run the numbers.
The tmux keymap
Every binding on a drawn keyboard, prefix and Alt layers.
f. 29rThe agent fleet
Hooks, messages, handoffs, parking and the shared brain.
f. 40rWorktree fan-out
One repository, many branches, an agent in each.
f. 61rThe observability path
Where every trace, error, log and archive flows.
f. 54rThe Cloudflare front door
A request’s passage from DNS to origin.
f. 65rWhat it costs
A calculator over every price, each with its date.
Most cited
- Claude Codef. 27r · cited by 46
- Droverf. 38r · cited by 35
- Codexf. 28r · cited by 32
- tmuxf. 11r · cited by 29
- Dotfilesf. 18r · cited by 27
- Tailscalef. 26r · cited by 25
- The Mac minif. 4r · cited by 23
- SSHf. 25r · cited by 23
Lately emended
- How to Be a Beastf. 1r · The Library
- About This Wikif. 2r · The Library
- Editing the Wiki with Agentsf. 3r · The Library
- The Mac minif. 4r · The Desk
- The Mechanical Keyboardf. 5r · The Desk
- Mice: MX Master and Magic Mousef. 6r · The Desk
- Screens 5f. 7r · The Desk
- Wispr Flowf. 8r · The Desk
The library in numbers
- 81 folios in 10 tablesevery one in the Pinakes
- 1,109 cross-referenceseach answered on the back of its leaf
- Kept by people and agentsthrough the wiki’s MCP, by pull request
inc. “Being a beast, in Cole's sense, is not about…”