Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box
KBall interviews Nick Nisi about the Pandora’s box that is his tooling/developer setup. Starting at the lowest layer of the terminal emulator he uses, they move upwards into command line tools, into Tmux (terminals within terminals!), his epic NeoVim configuration, and finally into the tools he uses for notekeeping and productivity.
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James Brothers
2023-06-03T15:20:40Z ago
Super helpful and relevant!
Thorsten Weber
2023-06-05T10:33:35Z ago
Nice hearing a deep dive into some one else’s tooling setup!
Regarding dotfiles repos, please have a look at home-manager: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
it enables managing most application configuration using all the same functional programming language.
As a bonus, it makes it easy to provide necessary packages from nixpkgs instead of apt/brew.
And regarding terminal editors, I recently discovered helix: https://helix-editor.com/
It tries to provide a very vim-like experience while minimizing the amount of necessary configuration.
A lot of features that neovim needs plugins for are provided by default: LSP support, fuzzy search, surround keybinds etc.
It also provides TUI menus for all important functions which makes learning the default keybindings a breeze.