Linkarzu Podcast | Neovim, macOS, Emacs, Linux, Terminals and more.

There's a community of 8 users, that are very persistent, and always trying to get you to install NixOS. They swear by it and say it's the best thing ever happened after the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel. @tony-btw is one of those users, and he will share about NixOS with us, so we can see if it's just hype, or if we should give it a try. Link to the video:https://youtu.be/lMkvCfJ_k_wWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:41 - First time tony showing his face00:03:54 - Wat's tony's youtube channel about?00:05:27 - Is there beef with Ubuntu? Canonical?00:07:00 - Ubuntu and gnome00:07:53 - Marker 500:08:19 - Why did you start a youtube channel?00:09:54 - Professional and technical background00:10:53 - Operating system you started with00:14:01 - Why did you end up in nix? Is nix hype?00:15:21 - Should Linkarzu switch to nix?00:16:40 - Video setup my mac with a script00:19:29 - Do you need to compile nix every time?00:21:35 - What about dependency issues on macOS?00:23:21 - What about docker and kubernetes?00:24:33 - How difficult is to compile nix?00:26:33 - What's the best linux distro?00:27:38 - I'm all in for stability and Debian, I don't understand why you would run Arch00:29:57 - People say Debian is the king of stability, why?00:32:48 - Joshua Blais has me go into signal to send him messages00:34:35 - Is gentoo hype or just bloatware?00:37:56 - Who is gentoo for?00:38:54 - Thoughts on macOS?00:43:49 - ThePrimeagen workflow video00:44:57 - Starcraft shortcuts and influence in workflow00:46:50 - A streamdeck is bloatware00:47:29 - Videogames, soul reaver, vice city, wow, dota, skyrim, goldeneye00:49:56 - What games do you currently play?00:51:02 - Skyrim, the best game ever00:51:44 - Parenting00:53:59 - Thoughts on Windows?00:57:05 - The annoying linux user that tells windows users, windows sucks00:58:59 - Thirld world countries use Windows, well, the world01:01:30 - Thoughts on youtube sponsorships01:04:12 - Thoughts on university degrees, certifications or none?01:05:25 - Resuming university being 37 years old01:06:51 - What's the beef with systemd?01:09:34 - Appimages, flatpaks01:11:16 - Davinci or OBS flatpacks or snaps?01:12:10 - When you compile from sources, how do you update?01:12:46 - Conspiracy theories against debian?01:14:16 - Role models? John Carmack01:16:04 - DistroTube influence01:16:47 - Why are you using DT's mic?01:17:25 - Any of you furries recognizes my girl mic?01:19:45 - Mark Rippetoe01:20:50 - Favorite movies01:21:31 - No country for old men. Only for men of culture01:23:14 - Hot take on Dune movie by Sylvan Franklin01:24:07 - Beautiful Boy by Sylvan is way better01:25:15 - tony demo on Nix, hugo01:26:15 - hugo not installed01:28:26 - dmenu flake demo01:30:36 - Can your prompt tell you you're in a nix shell?01:31:23 - What is dmenu? For bookmars I use raycast on macos01:33:10 - I'm migrating from tmux to kitty sessions, kovid video01:34:34 - kitty sessions video01:36:01 - Kitty sessions demo, can't you memorize a few shortcuts?01:37:18 - Recommending Mr Beast01:37:56 - Why I can't move my bookmarks to dmenu

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/jzylbactzPoWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:30 - Who is Adib Hanna00:03:50 - YouTube channel00:07:56 - People now use AI to build everything00:13:07 - 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 process00:26:46 - First experience with vim motions painful?00:29:23 - lunarvim00:30:58 - Neovim distro or config from scratch?00:34:24 - Obsession with notes privacy, they got em anyway00:35:49 - kindaVim for vim motions anywhere on macos00:37:09 - I tried the mouseless approach and failed00:39:01 - Adib's keyboard, kinesis vs the glove8000:41:36 - Don't buy a kinesis until they sponsor me00:44:05 - The apple magic keyboard is the best one out there00:44:58 - corne min prototye00:45:48 - 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 activity00:53:32 - Old men pain talking, sciatica, swimming00:55:21 - Are you disciplined with physical activity?00:57:10 - Work life balance00:59:30 - Sylvan Franklin mentioned01:02:04 - Ads on videos and sponsorships01:03:51 - Fireship and private equity01:05:56 - I see basses and guitars, do you play?01:06:59 - Music01:10:05 - What did you study, how did you get started in IT?01:12:06 - Suffer from doom scrolling?01:13:53 - Drugs on alcohol01:17:35 - Supreme being?01:22:38 - Workflow demo start, switched from kitty to ghostty01:24:24 - Gruvbox colorscheme, is it for old folks?01:26:18 - Not using tmux for a couple weeks01:27:12 - Stopped using lazygit and using git tower or regular terminal01:28:43 - Why are you moving away from tmux?01:31:42 - tmux plugin created gruvbox-tmux01:33:16 - Snacks explorer, blink.cmp, showkeys01:36:17 - laravel.nvim and phprefactoring.nvim developed by Adib01:37:41 - intelephense and phpactor in neovim01:39:18 - phprefactoring.nvim is similar to phpstorm in jetbrains, but for neovim01:39:55 - nvim-notes neovim plugin01:40:59 - dotfiles private01:42:11 - Maintaining open source projects01:43:18 - 1,000 lines added PRs that seem AI generated01:44:17 - Share your workflows and show up in dotfiles.substack.com01:49:12 - macOS window manager?01:53:05 - Thougts on Linux01:58:49 - Windows?02:00:01 - Emacs?02:01:08 - raycast, show all browser tabs that are open02:05:13 - tmux-sessionx and sesh for tmux sessions02:07:04 - Analog pedals, line 6 pedalboards02:07:45 - wampler ethereal02:08:38 - neural dsp quad cortex vs line 6 helix02:09:07 - The quad cortex seed has been planted, now I just need to convince the wife02:11:46 - The old line 6 pod xt live02:14:16 - neuraldsp vst plugins for daws02:16:23 - NixOS?

Hendrik (Henry Misc) at this point in time has only a few videos out, 18 to be exact, and 7K subs, so that speaks for itself. Relatively new channel that is taking the Neovim community by surprise.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/uj_3u1Dki3gWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:33 - Hendrik is from Germany but living in Barcelona Spain00:03:31 - Hendrik did business studies in college. How did you end up in tech then?00:05:56 - Stepdad00:07:44 - Why so few videos and so many subs?00:12:54 - Why did you decide to start a youtube channel?00:15:55 - iPhone "siri new note" creates a text file00:16:27 - Script videos?00:17:17 - What's this 12 year old Sylvan Franklin kid doing?00:18:50 - How was your first experience with vim motions?00:21:38 - Ergonomics and hand health, any pain?00:23:27 - Hendrik's keyboard, iris by keeb.io00:28:59 - corne min prototype00:32:21 - Is the ferris sweep a mistake?00:35:02 - Sponsorships00:37:25 - Barefoot shoes, this guy's gonna become the next Ben Vallack00:38:56 - setapp and 1password, MFs if u read dis, sponsor me00:42:00 - Don's subscribe to brilliant until they pay me, F those MFs00:42:49 - Hendrik and I are vegetarians. Our experiences.00:46:36 - How did it feel when you first tried hjkl00:48:45 - Why did you decide to go with neovim and not vim? ThePrimeagen and devaslife00:51:41 - Experience with Neovim distros?00:55:13 - kickstart.nvim00:56:54 - Do you think dealing with the neovim config becomes overkill?01:02:24 - Impostor syndrome? Dunning-Kruger effect01:08:18 - How has it been living abroad?01:13:26 - How old are you?01:14:02 - Obsidian for note taking01:16:02 - Neovim folds demo01:17:47 - Do you use the Zettelkasten method for notes?01:18:46 - Demo Marksman LSP for linking markdown notes01:22:34 - AI related IDEs? Claude code01:30:58 - Emacs?01:33:59 - Linux?01:35:31 - Would you buy a mac or a computer to run with linux?01:39:43 - Experience with Arch?01:42:37 - Omarchy?01:44:56 - You like macOS?01:46:20 - macOS window manager?01:49:10 - Using yabai or aerospace?01:52:10 - Hot take: tiles are a mistake01:54:11 - Do you use social media?01:57:12 - Are you a slave of youtube analytics?02:00:10 - Niching down?02:03:19 - Drugs and alcohol02:11:22 - Supreme being, God. Church tax in Germany02:22:03 - Unsolicited vegetarianism advise02:27:57 - LazyGit?02:30:12 - Tmux?02:32:44 - ThePrimeagen tmux-sessionizer02:40:16 - Thoughts on nixos, macos install script video02:41:59 - Wezterm ghostty?02:46:24 - Keyboard layout02:48:55 - Are you into music and instruments?02:50:30 - Bring me the horizon and knocked loose02:52:45 - Ben Bohmer, Tom day, Iron maiden, System of a Down02:57:45 - Movies or series? K-dramas03:00:37 - Mr. Robot series. Watch the office man03:02:58 - Anchorman movie and Beautiful boy03:04:47 - Videogames?03:06:45 - 3rd point to his success03:11:30 - The Neovim subreddit, bad experiences?03:13:25 - How is YouTube going to be when the haters show up?03:14:21 - Theo and the gpt-5 drama. Is there bad publicity?03:16:42 - Pirate Software drama

Conversation with Matt, we talk about his recent experience with macOS, current experience with NixOS and also his challenge of using Emacs for 2 years.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/V4mzxJROCFkWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:13 - Matt's YouTube channel "The Linux Cast"00:05:24 - DistroTube shouted out Matt's channel, video00:06:58 - Have you ever felt discouraged to make videos? Tutorial videos usually perform bad00:09:08 - Is youtube your full time job?00:13:17 - Are you addicted looking at YouTube analytics?00:16:24 - Matt's 40 years old, but I look older, wtf00:17:14 - Matt's guilty pleasure: MacOS Finder app. Why did you buy a mac?00:18:56 - PopOS Pop!_OS is just an older version of Debian00:22:14 - The Logitech software nightmare on macOS00:24:05 - Plans on keep using mac?00:25:41 - Finder alternative ForkLift, Pathfinder00:26:46 - Matt's experience with macOS in college00:29:48 - The AppStore sucks00:31:51 - App recommendation, trickster00:33:10 - Why did you start using NixOS?00:34:33 - The drama with the "NixOS is not a real distro" video00:36:05 - Is arch a new user recommended distro?00:40:13 - How I re-deploy macOS video, what are the real benefits of nix?00:44:19 - NixOS overlay, let's say snapshots00:46:42 - Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover00:48:55 - What iPad should I get?00:50:46 - How does the nix rebuild work?00:56:57 - GNU Stow or Chezmoi01:00:26 - What's the status of your homelab? pastebin, glance, FreshRSS01:03:27 - Media side of things, music library01:09:36 - I'm tired of listening to the same music, but I'm not open to new music. Does Matt listen to Music?01:12:00 - Alexa sucks01:15:10 - Sponsorships?01:18:32 - Linux Phone FuriPhone01:20:35 - BenQ, if you're reading this, we're waiting for our monitors01:21:42 - Dactyl Manuform01:24:33 - Alice layout keyboard01:25:32 - First split keyboard was a moonlander?01:26:34 - hitting the D with the left and right hand, if YKWIM01:28:39 - Thoughts on using keyboard layers01:30:24 - Corne Min prototype pre-order01:31:23 - Thoughts on key chords, more keys, less keys? Thoughts on the Corne?01:34:28 - What if you remap hjkl? KindaVim app on macOS video01:35:45 - Why did you recently start using emacs again?01:39:26 - org mode01:40:39 - Did you start your notes in Markdown?01:41:52 - Obsidian on the desktop, and obsidian vault stored in nextcloud, quillpad android app01:46:27 - I moved from Obsidian to Neovim, what do you love about Obsidian?01:52:35 - Marksman LSP demo in Neovim to link notes together01:54:15 - Vivaldi, Brave. Reformed tab hoarder02:00:08 - Vertical tabs?02:04:59 - Thoughts on the new AI related IDEs like cursor, windsurf and those02:06:15 - How do you use AI? Chatgpt or claude?02:11:47 - Once chatgpt says "you're absolutely right" you're cooked02:13:44 - Sometimes we say "that's awesome" to chatgpt, so it keeps the good mood02:14:56 - "Claude does it better"

Sylvan Franklin (aka ‘Vimothée Chalamet) talking about Typst (and demoing it), Vim, content creation, tech hot takes, and why you have to earn his YouTube heartsLink to the video:https://youtu.be/111x2xidPaQWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:15 - U get the reference? Only for men of culture00:02:04 - Vimothée name00:03:09 - Why did you get started with Vim?00:05:50 - How old are you?00:06:12 - What's this thing about the pyramid schemes on your website?00:08:07 - GitHub profile00:09:23 - Corporate Linkedin?00:11:36 - Thoughts on current content out there?00:13:42 - The average guy can't buy a mac, that's why they "love" linux so much (his words, not mine)00:16:04 - I see a lot of Vim in our videos, so are you into vim or neovim?00:19:25 - Compatibility via SSH on servers, should you install Neovim on a corporate server?00:21:45 - How do you feel about over-edited videos, do they distract you?00:23:50 - Why don't you reply to every comment, do you selectively give hearts out so they feel touched by God?00:25:38 - Thoughts on sponsorhips?00:27:18 - What about high striped socks for your audience?00:28:56 - Fireship was aquired by a private equity firm?00:35:18 - Thoughts on promoting and helping small channels?00:36:21 - Why did you start with youtube?00:38:59 - Where are you from? Vermont. Is that where Prime is from?00:40:05 - Muricans, let's stop calling it America, and use United States00:40:46 - Have you seen the piratesoftware drama?00:41:23 - Thoughts on drugs, alcohol and substance abuse?00:50:07 - Sylvan talking about his parents00:52:33 - Have you watched the Beautifol Boy movie by Timothée Chalamet?00:54:05 - Any thougts on a supreme being (God)00:58:43 - What does GenZ believe in?01:00:28 - What do your parents and family think about your YouTube journey?01:01:14 - Do we have a lot of self-diagnosed ADHDers out there right now? Is it a trend?01:03:47 - Thoughts on Adderall and medication01:08:22 - Are we over stimulated with social media and stuff?01:10:24 - YouTube studio app?01:12:29 - Do we all watch videos on 1.5 or 2 speed? What do you use to edit videos?01:14:13 - What are you studying? What does a Math Major do?01:18:51 - Why mac and not Linux?01:24:12 - Thoughts on Windows?01:25:37 - Any plans to switch to Linux in the future?01:29:23 - Friends think about your channel and IT passion?01:30:53 - Did Prime's reaction increase your subs?01:31:52 - Do looks impact your percentage of female youtube audience?01:33:41 - Thoughts on Prime's harpoon?01:36:27 - Thoughts on Tmux? Uses tmux-sessionizer01:38:36 - Sylvan Demo on Typst, how does it compare to LaTeX01:46:30 - fizz buzz demo01:47:51 - LSP for typst called tinymist01:52:16 - Would a professional book writer benefit from typst or just math people?01:56:15 - How has your experience as an intern been?01:57:56 - How do you use AI?02:01:08 - Neovim distro or not distro?02:02:46 - LazyGit?02:04:58 - Did you fall for the Ghostty hype?02:08:26 - Window manager on macOS, Aerospace or Yabai?02:09:50 - Single or multiple monitors?02:10:29 - Keyboard?02:17:54 - Music bands?02:19:49 - Movies?02:20:38 - Videogames?02:22:39 - Story behind the linkarzu name

We have to address the elephant in the room. The security concerns behind kindaVim, its subscription model, why it's not open source and a few other questions.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/wqUf1bm9y_kWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:21 - I'm late again, G's fault, blaming the apple ecosystem00:01:57 - G installing Omarchy? Showing his underwear00:03:11 - DevOps Toolbox youtube mention00:05:01 - This MF doesn't even offer a 10 cent discount00:08:50 - video by @devopstoolbox 00:09:33 - This guys prefers getting his ego fed than making money00:11:19 - Why haven't you become a YouTube member? Cheap a** MF00:13:39 - Are french people cheap?00:15:18 - List of topics we're covering today00:16:06 - Interview with G, previous video00:16:38 - Cannot type lowercase k in Kindavim issue00:17:55 - The thumbnail is a masterpiece, the tears look weird00:19:41 - The reddit post that started this drama00:21:45 - Can we trust this guy, is he living the john mcafee life?00:22:55 - kindaVim captures each of our keystrokes, is it secure?00:27:14 - What kindaVim goes online to check, Little Snitch macos app00:28:56 - Have you thought about hiring a software auditing company?00:30:29 - kindaVim was open source for a couple of months, you needed to compile it00:34:50 - Why would you "demand" for the code of a closed source application?00:38:40 - Did you release the code because of the reddit post?00:40:28 - Went back toa close source, open source users started demanding support00:41:58 - Simply put, there's not kindaVim alternatives00:43:33 - When is Wooshy getting the homerow labels?00:44:53 - The app is not karen friendly, why does it insult you?00:52:33 - Do you want that type of person as a user?00:53:52 - Why a subscription? A lot of people hate this00:59:39 - Is there a real kindaVim alternative?01:01:43 - The audience for the app is really limited. Why is netflix not free?01:03:31 - Folks that don't care about open source, but just care about it being free01:05:03 - Back to the software auditing company01:07:34 - Can't believe the brew installation command wasn't part of the docs, shame01:10:39 - Back on the "k" issue, probably kanata related01:13:22 - The new karabiner-elements integration, what is it?01:16:49 - With variables you can create a different mapping depending on the mode01:19:45 - Before using karabiner G tried to create his own remapping solution01:23:31 - G doesn't feel the time pass when he's with me

Gregory Anders, also known as gpanders, is a core maintainer of Neovim and also the Ghostty terminal. In this conversation, we talk about how he got started with both projects, his take on plugin managers, Lua, and debugging workflows. We go over Ghostty features, how he approaches minimalism in his dev setup,Link to the video:https://youtu.be/Nq2T28_ILxcWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:03:34 - Neovim contributions00:05:14 - Ghostty contributions00:06:28 - Greg's background in IT, computers, education, career00:10:00 - Experience applying to SpaceX00:16:05 - How and why did you get started with neovim?00:19:34 - Debug C++ in Neovim?00:21:08 - Can you share a bit about the Neovim history, was there a time that Lua was not part of it?00:26:46 - What are your thoughts on lua?00:28:49 - Greg doesn't like looking at lua (and I'm being conservative here)00:29:59 - For Neovim design's goals, could have been a better alternative than lua?00:31:59 - What is Fennel? LISP that transpiles into lua00:34:46 - How big is the neovim core team, how easy is it to come to agreements, is there a dictactor?00:40:20 - Are Echasnovski and Folke part of the Core team?00:42:21 - Greg uses his own "package manager", thoughts on plugin managers00:50:59 - Greg doesn't use plugins that need to call require.setup00:52:49 - What if we look at plugin managers from the perspective of a VScode user00:56:53 - Experience of having a coworker switch to neovim00:58:12 - Neovim flexibility of providing you a good base, so you can build on top01:00:22 - Thoughts on Helix?01:03:31 - My experience with Obsidian after meeting Neovim01:04:34 - Thoughts on a lot of new plugins being created all the time?01:09:05 - WIP: New Neovim plugin manager vim.pack01:10:44 - Stop using .setup (as most as possible)01:11:46 - Thoughts on Neovim Extensibility, is it becoming an Emacs?01:14:25 - Thoughts on auto updating plugins at startup, and also daily driving Neovim on the master branch01:18:47 - Should you update for security reasons or new features?01:20:20 - BE REALLY CAREFUL ON THE PLUGINS YOU INSTALL01:26:12 - What about the Ghostty hype? What Ghostty features matter to Greg01:28:30 - Thoughts on iTerm01:30:12 - Ghostty is missing the search feature, like ctrl+f for normies or cmd+f for chads01:30:51 - Thoughts on Tmux?01:31:59 - The kitty keyboard protocol (shoutout to Kovid, both of us huge fans)01:36:41 - Thoughts on other editors like zed, cursor, and thoughts on AI01:42:52 - Thoughts on claude code01:44:22 - Whats your preferred operating systems and thoughts about other ones01:45:24 - How does the Windows Neovim package work, is it native?01:47:17 - If you're a Neovim Windows user watching, a windows core maintainer is needed01:49:08 - Here comes the apple pill for you rust furry boys01:53:24 - Apple's walled garden, it's so comfortable here, come on in01:56:12 - Do your airpods stay connected to the phone for some reason?01:58:22 - What do other think about your love for apple, do you get criticized?02:00:02 - What keyboard do you use? keychron Q1102:04:43 - I use a glove80, but still, apple's external keyboard is my favorite02:10:15 - Do you use any window manager?

Protesilaos Stavrou. philosopher, programmer and the voice behind some of the most thoughtful Emacs content on the internet.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/b4nV0jCHwGQWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights00:01:15 - "Neovim vs Emacs" video is how I heard about Prot00:02:24 - Wildfires in Cyprus July 202500:10:01 - What are you, a philosopher, programmer or what?00:12:05 - What is your main medium, website or youtube?00:13:45 - Why did you decide to get started with YouTube?00:14:51 - Did you receive formal education as a programmer? How did all this computer stuff got started00:16:44 - Thoughts on Windows and macOS?00:19:37 - Prot uses Debian, like a real chad. He was in Arch before00:22:00 - Any issues with outdated packages in Debian? What about security updates?00:23:07 - Thoughts on flatpaks00:23:57 - What's the difference between open source and free software00:27:40 - Thoughts on supporting open source maintainers00:29:07 - I (linkarzu) feel open source like a 1 way relationship in which the maintainer has to give and not expect anything in return?00:33:18 - Remove the stigma when a free software maintainer asks for money00:34:45 - Thoughts on Neovim?00:36:05 - Images in Neovim, variable font size in terminals hopefully soon00:38:55 - What are the different ways of working with emacs? Evil, space, traditional, what do you recommend?00:42:02 - What about using the ctrl key with emacs?00:42:52 - Give default emacs a fair chance00:44:38 - Did you remap your Ctrl key?00:45:40 - Thoughts on homerow mods, Prot's keyboard00:48:13 - The delay in homerow mods and false positives00:50:44 - The long spacebar on laptops does not make sense00:51:32 - Why a light theme if we live in a dark theme world? Demo modus-operandi, modus-vivendi and other themes00:56:05 - In a video you mentioned you prefer taking notes in plain text and switch to org when needed01:02:11 - Paste images in AVIF inside Neovim, also view images01:02:48 - Some folks think that viewing images in Neovim is not useful01:05:04 - Create private or public GitHub repo from within Neovim and extending outside to your Operating System01:08:58 - Prot demo on org: email, calendar, and way more01:14:55 - How long is your emacs config? 18,000 lines01:15:51 - Magit git client, allows you to also merge, issues, PRs01:16:57 - How do you get notifications in Emacs, for example for emails? notmuch-indicator01:19:56 - Packages for auto-formatting and moving around parentheses01:23:36 - Neovim demo on how I manage tasks and fold headings, emacs demo as well01:28:00 - Prot uses multiple emacs frames01:32:12 - How I navigate projects with tmux on the neovim side01:34:37 - You can put emacs frames in different workspaces01:36:09 - The beauty of organizing your life in org mode, email and calendar01:40:53 - What is LISP?01:42:00 - Fennel to write LISP but convert it to Lua01:43:00 - Single threading issues on emacs?01:46:49 - Thoughts on alcohol and substance abuse?01:55:47 - Thoughts on a supreme being?02:11:00 - Thoughts on physical activity02:13:18 - Thoughts on material objects02:16:10 - Let's see the puppies02:16:42 - Thoughts on AI02:18:29 - Do you use qwerty or colemak?02:19:00 - What is the best way to support you monetarily?

Discussion between advanced and hardcore users of 2 similar, but very different worlds, the only 2 titans when it comes to text editing and life management: Neovim and Emacs.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/SnhcXR9CKnoWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 - Highlights and agenda00:03:03 - Who is TJ DeVries00:03:51 - Who is Derek (DistroTube)00:05:20 - Gregory Anders, Neovim Core and Ghostty Terminal contributor00:10:01 - We need Ghostty sessions00:10:43 - terminal.shop not shipping coffee to Canada, simply because they don't like Canadians00:11:00 - Who is Joshua Blais00:12:39 - Gregory Anders Neovim and workflow demo00:18:59 - Greg does not use a plugin manager00:20:16 - Evgeni Chasnovski (echasnovski mentioned) 00:22:41 - Configuring Neovim with Fennel and not Lua00:24:42 - Gregory's love for Lua, Brazil mentioned00:25:19 - nvim-parinfer plugin00:26:04 - fennel-repl.nvim plugin00:29:48 - DistroTube workflow and Emacs demo00:31:10 - Emacs variable font size00:33:35 - Emacs Eshell00:34:31 - Woman pages in Emacs00:36:51 - Teej Neovim Worklow and tricks00:39:14 - Prime showed us how to navigate with tmux sessions, how do you navigate projects without tmux?00:41:33 - Ivy theme in telescope (comes from Emacs)00:42:46 - Teej Dynamic Neovim and dad jokes generator00:46:34 - Supermaven and Awesomewm00:47:39 - Are there any other macOS users here?00:48:04 - What's that yoga ball in the background Teej? balls.yoga site00:49:23 - Joshua Blais emacs and workflow demo00:49:45 - How Kovid Goyal does everything in the terminal, including the variable font size protocol00:51:55 - How Joshua wrote a book in Emacs00:52:18 - Sending an Email from Emacs00:53:37 - Playing music in Emacs00:53:58 - Leaking keys and sending REST requests in Emacs00:54:25 - kulala.nvim plugin mentioned, as a postman alternative in Neovim00:55:55 - The problem with Emacs being single threaded00:59:14 - Gregory's thoughts on Emacs, as a Neovim user01:06:29 - DT's thoughts on Neovim as an Emacs user01:08:00 - DTs thoughts on default emacs keybindings vs vim keybinds01:09:05 - Org mode in Neovim is not just the same01:11:18 - TJ's thoughts on Emacs01:14:04 - Neovim and Emacs on the same team? Can we get along?01:15:01 - Joshua Blais thoughts on Neovim01:15:38 - Greg playing doom in Ghostty01:18:04 - Shoutout to the doom emacs creator, Henrik Lissner01:18:52 - Recommendation on someone just starting, Teej01:20:26 - TJ: Neovim distro or no distro?01:20:54 - Teej and Gregory love auto-updating plugins at startup, fax01:23:22 - Recommendation on someone just starting, DT01:24:06 - Gregory01:26:25 - Blais01:26:51 - If you're a macOS user, check out kindaVim01:30:13 - Greg, how is maintaining 2 open source projects?01:30:41 - Are we still live?01:31:39 - Kovid Goyal has single handedly solved so many terminal problems01:34:15 - Who started the GPU accelerated terminal paradigm, kovid or the alacritty guys?01:35:59 - Can linux and macos be friends too?01:37:51 - Greg thoughts on daily driving linux01:41:37 - nix worthed?

kindaVim leverages the macOS Accessibility API to act like a screen reader. And because with great power comes great responsibility, it brings you Vim moves everywhere! For kV to be able to do its magic, apps need to implement the macOS Accessibility on their side. But be not afraid, this comes by default in most native apps. Those include: Xcode, iA Writer, Day One, Things, Safari, Notes and many more.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/YsXmxblazewWhat's the best way to support me?https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enoughTimeline:00:00:00 highlithgts00:01:00 chit-chat00:01:44 From France to Macau00:05:57 G loves summer and living the hollywood lifestyle00:08:37 Can you live off of software development?00:13:44 Are you a musician?00:15:25 Karens got upset00:19:21 First band, WhyOceans, from Macau00:23:05 The other band, "Forget the G" and they forgot the MF, he gowne00:24:40 is this a music interview video or what?00:25:42 How did you find my youtube channel?00:27:56 What IDE do you use?00:29:25 Were you ever interested in Neovim or Emacs?00:34:22 How compatible and loyal are you to the vim motions?00:37:24 This app is approved by Theena, which has spoken in NeovimConf00:38:18 How is the experience of developing apple apps, do you have to fight apple?00:43:02 Do you consider apple is getting more locked down?00:44:47 Are the new Steve Jobs at apple using their own system? Its getting out of control00:48:58 Have you ever considered Linux?00:49:13 Should we be living the DHH dream with Omarchy and Framework laptops?00:54:25 G likes to install and configure his apps, one at a time, like a caveman00:55:06 Thoughts on macOS 26 and the glassy thing00:58:17 How to use your mac like a chad with SketchyBar and no Dock01:00:04 Why GUIs and not give gigachads a way to configure the apps via config file? I mean, GUIs are fine... For my grandparents01:07:18 Email with vim motions01:08:37 Vim motions in Xcode01:13:16 How to customize and configure KindaVim01:15:17 Tool not on linux, sorry Hyprlnd users, go back to your inferior OS (G's words, not mine)01:16:38 Can I use kj or jk as escape?01:18:41 Is the kanata keyboard mapper going to interfere with kindaVim01:19:33 I moved from karabiner-elements to Kanata01:22:10 Will kindaVim interfere with karabiner-elements?01:23:48 integrating kindaVim with Karabiner01:27:45 If you have questions about Karabiner, go and watch my videos01:28:26 What is Kanata, is it like Goku?01:31:58 kindaVim families01:42:49 Lets talk money, is this thing like a Netflix subscription? You do know that my audience loves open source right? These MFs don't like to pay01:47:18 Can you get the app through brew like a gigachad? He hasn't updated the docs by the way01:48:29 Is the app on Setapp? SetApp said no01:54:58 Wooshy compared to Homerow and Mouseless01:59:26 Can Wooshy copy and image?01:59:46 This is starting to feel like HBO subscriptions and all that stuff02:00:25 You can still use the apps without paying for them02:00:49 What about Scrolla? Feels like the unplanned and not desired kid02:04:24 kindaVim was open source for a while, but the community started demanding, as usual02:06:25 When is the config via file coming?02:08:41 What happens to your apps when you're gone?02:12:07 Plans to sell your apps to a another company?