Kamon Ayeva

Hi, I'm Kamon 👋

I build tools for projects (MVPs), engineers, and creators.

Mostly terminal-native. Always free, always reversible.

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Content Gardening Studio

What I work on

I build tools for people who are actually shipping things — founders getting an MVP off the ground, engineers maintaining their own stack, creators publishing on their own terms. The tools tend to be terminal-native (CLIs, build systems, content publishing pipelines) because that's where the leverage is.

I also write about the tools, mostly through Shellcraft (a weekly newsletter going deep on one CLI tool or workflow at a time) and free technical PDFs. The two feed each other: I write a tool, document it, learn from reader feedback, rewrite the tool, repeat.

Currently shipping:

• UV First — The Foundation — a 30-page book that walks through

setting up a Python project with uv from scratch. Free PDF, also
available in French. Part of the Python Baselines line.

• Python Baselines — a 49-page collected book covering the six

patterns every Python project ends up needing: code change, code
quality, dependencies, testing, configuration, runtime behavior.
Free PDF.

• Shellcraft — weekly newsletter, Tuesdays, one tool or workflow

per issue.

Published books

| Title | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Mastering Python Design Patterns (3rd edition) | Packt | 2024 |
| Learn Type-Driven Development | Packt | 2019 |

Digital products

| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Modern CLI Stack | Free PDF (Gumroad) | 2026 |

The Modern CLI Stack is a curated set of 13 terminal tools that
replace hundreds of lines of bash config. The PDF walks through
each tool with install commands, before/after examples, and a
config snippet. The build system behind it is open source and
forkable for anyone publishing their own technical PDFs.

Things I've built that are still in use

Most of my current team work lives under ContentGardeningStudio on GitHub — that's the org for the company I run, and it's where new repos go. A few smaller personal projects still live here on my personal account (mostly older shell scripts, automation notes, and small tools).

How I think about software

• The best tool is the one you actually use. The second-best is the one you'll install and never open. A lot of my writing is about closing that gap.
• Reversibility matters more than cleverness. Every tool I recommend can be uninstalled. Every workflow can be undone.
• Documentation is part of the product. If a tool needs a forum thread to be usable, it's not done.
• I keep my hands on the keyboard. Mouse-driven workflows are fine for the first minute of a task; after that, they're friction.

Where to find me

• Newsletter — Shellcraft (Tuesdays, one tool or workflow per issue)
• Microblog / quick takes — @kamon on X
• Studio — Content Gardening Studio (the company I run; longer-form work and consulting)

About this profile

This is a GitHub profile README — the page you're reading right now is rendered from a README.md in a special repository called kamon/kamon. If you want to see how it's set up, the repo is public.

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Last updated July 2026.

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