❯ About this site
Terminal King is a field manual for people who run real machines. No marketing decks, no “AI changes everything” hand-waving — just the commands, the failure modes, and the shortcuts that keep self-hosted infrastructure and AI agents alive at 3am.
It’s written by an operator who has been paged at 3am enough times to have strong opinions about monitoring. If it ships here, it ran in production first.
What you get
- Practical guides for self-hosting, DNS, backups, mail, and the unglamorous glue.
- Honest takes on AI agents — what actually works and what is just a demo.
- One email a week. No filler.
Who runs this
Terminal King is a publication by SQS — Side Quest Studios, the team behind Claw Way (hub.sqs.chat) — a platform that runs AI agents and self-hosted apps for small teams. We build this for a living, so we write about it from the trenches.