Justin M. Keyes: Neovim, Workflow, OSs, Terminals...

Let's get to know Justin M. Keyes more on a personal level, let's learn about his computer workflow, preferred OS, keyboard, favorite terminals, Neovim history, upcoming Neovim features, thoughts on security, his favorite movies and way more.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/OWk1Y9MrawQ

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

00:04:24 - Justin in New York but loves Florida

00:06:01 - Why do you do all this?

00:08:15 - Justin works at Amazon

00:09:51 - Hate in reddit at the beginning

00:12:07 - Neovim multiplied Vim's energy

00:13:30 - Does Neovim move faster than Vim?

00:15:03 - Are you Neovim's benevolent dictator?

00:16:04 - Did Neoviim gain a lot of popularity because of Prime?

00:17:46 - Justin will become a streamer

00:19:39 - Thoughts on Security

00:23:08 - Install Neovim on remote VMs?

00:25:19 - Minimal plugins

00:25:53 - Integrating webassembly

00:28:02 - Thoughts on distros, lazyvim

00:29:51 - Making Neovim beginner friendly

00:32:14 - oh my zsh bloat?

00:34:02 - What happened to kickstart?

00:34:58 - Neovim's plugin manager

00:36:17 - Core minimal and modularize?

00:38:17 - Is extending neovim bloat?

00:41:01 - Neovim embedded terminal was called bloat

00:43:41 - Super chat, embedded terminal slow neovim

00:45:23 - libghostty integration

00:47:35 - Thoughts on moving away from defaults?

00:50:21 - How do you get to normal mode

00:51:49 - Relationship with the subreddit community

00:53:04 - Neovim history, you started it?

00:55:43 - Afraid of alligators?

00:56:35 - Open source burdain

00:57:28 - What happens when you go to emacs?

00:59:54 - Theena moving to emacs, thoughts

01:02:51 - Thoughts on emacs

01:04:09 - Relationship with emacs community

01:05:31 - Thoughts on sublime or helix

01:07:39 - promiscuous

01:08:13 - You used helix?

01:10:22 - OS of choice

01:11:13 - Distro for servers

01:12:47 - Thoughts on daily driving linux?

01:15:57 - Distros are an accident

01:16:41 - Pushback for using macos?

01:17:55 - Neovim needs windows maintainers

01:19:07 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines AI generated PRs

01:20:34 - Superchat

01:20:58 - Justin demo

01:21:14 - :restart :connect :detach

01:35:23 - demo progress integration with ghostty

01:38:55 - ghostty built-in inspector

01:41:14 - Neovim window management

01:42:08 - You use OS window manager?

01:43:10 - Terminal of choice

01:44:18 - Scrollback with colors in Neovim with kitty

01:47:18 - Neovide

01:48:48 - Thoughts on Kovid Goyal, kitty maintainer

01:53:54 - Open source misconception

01:56:45 - Kitty graphics and keyboard protocol

01:58:47 - When does neovim 0.12 come out?

02:01:00 - Thoughts on drugs and substance consumption

02:06:26 - Sylvan franklin no show no call

02:08:21 - Thoughts on a supreme being

02:12:36 - Favorite movies

02:15:13 - What's the best way tu support neovim monetarily?

02:17:27 - Corporate sponsorships on Neovim?

02:20:17 - Would you like to work full time in neovim?