Adib Hanna: Neovim, CLI tools, Pedalboards, Philosophy & More

This video is a long conversation with @adibhanna where we talk about his background, his journey into programming, and his experiences with Neovim and the open source world.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/jzylbactzPo

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Highlights

00:01:30 - Who is Adib Hanna

00:03:50 - YouTube channel

00:07:56 - People now use AI to build everything

00:13:07 - Whats the neovim mastery course about?

00:18:54 - Is your heart still with Neovim or other editors?

00:20:53 - What is opencode, is it good?

00:23:18 - How old are you?

00:24:03 - Sponsorhips and editing process

00:26:46 - First experience with vim motions painful?

00:29:23 - lunarvim

00:30:58 - Neovim distro or config from scratch?

00:34:24 - Obsession with notes privacy, they got em anyway

00:35:49 - kindaVim for vim motions anywhere on macos

00:37:09 - I tried the mouseless approach and failed

00:39:01 - Adib's keyboard, kinesis vs the glove80

00:41:36 - Don't buy a kinesis until they sponsor me

00:44:05 - The apple magic keyboard is the best one out there

00:44:58 - corne min prototye

00:45:48 - Layers?

00:47:56 - Can you still type on a regular keyboard?

00:48:53 - Are these split keyboards a scam?

00:50:27 - Standing desks? Herman miller chairs, physical activity

00:53:32 - Old men pain talking, sciatica, swimming

00:55:21 - Are you disciplined with physical activity?

00:57:10 - Work life balance

00:59:30 - Sylvan Franklin mentioned

01:02:04 - Ads on videos and sponsorships

01:03:51 - Fireship and private equity

01:05:56 - I see basses and guitars, do you play?

01:06:59 - Music

01:10:05 - What did you study, how did you get started in IT?

01:12:06 - Suffer from doom scrolling?

01:13:53 - Drugs on alcohol

01:17:35 - Supreme being?

01:22:38 - Workflow demo start, switched from kitty to ghostty

01:24:24 - Gruvbox colorscheme, is it for old folks?

01:26:18 - Not using tmux for a couple weeks

01:27:12 - Stopped using lazygit and using git tower or regular terminal

01:28:43 - Why are you moving away from tmux?

01:31:42 - tmux plugin created gruvbox-tmux

01:33:16 - Snacks explorer, blink.cmp, showkeys

01:36:17 - laravel.nvim and phprefactoring.nvim developed by Adib

01:37:41 - intelephense and phpactor in neovim

01:39:18 - phprefactoring.nvim is similar to phpstorm in jetbrains, but for neovim

01:39:55 - nvim-notes neovim plugin

01:40:59 - dotfiles private

01:42:11 - Maintaining open source projects

01:43:18 - 1,000 lines added PRs that seem AI generated

01:44:17 - Share your workflows and show up in dotfiles.substack.com

01:49:12 - macOS window manager?

01:53:05 - Thougts on Linux

01:58:49 - Windows?

02:00:01 - Emacs?

02:01:08 - raycast, show all browser tabs that are open

02:05:13 - tmux-sessionx and sesh for tmux sessions

02:07:04 - Analog pedals, line 6 pedalboards

02:07:45 - wampler ethereal

02:08:38 - neural dsp quad cortex vs line 6 helix

02:09:07 - The quad cortex seed has been planted, now I just need to convince the wife

02:11:46 - The old line 6 pod xt live

02:14:16 - neuraldsp vst plugins for daws

02:16:23 - NixOS?