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Nov 7, 2025 • 2h 23min

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/OWk1Y9MrawQWhat'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 - Highlights00:04:24 - Justin in New York but loves Florida00:06:01 - Why do you do all this?00:08:15 - Justin works at Amazon00:09:51 - Hate in reddit at the beginning00:12:07 - Neovim multiplied Vim's energy00:13:30 - 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 streamer00:19:39 - Thoughts on Security00:23:08 - Install Neovim on remote VMs?00:25:19 - Minimal plugins00:25:53 - Integrating webassembly00:28:02 - Thoughts on distros, lazyvim00:29:51 - Making Neovim beginner friendly00:32:14 - oh my zsh bloat?00:34:02 - What happened to kickstart?00:34:58 - Neovim's plugin manager00:36:17 - Core minimal and modularize?00:38:17 - Is extending neovim bloat?00:41:01 - Neovim embedded terminal was called bloat00:43:41 - Super chat, embedded terminal slow neovim00:45:23 - libghostty integration00:47:35 - Thoughts on moving away from defaults?00:50:21 - How do you get to normal mode00:51:49 - Relationship with the subreddit community00:53:04 - Neovim history, you started it?00:55:43 - Afraid of alligators?00:56:35 - Open source burdain00:57:28 - What happens when you go to emacs?00:59:54 - Theena moving to emacs, thoughts01:02:51 - Thoughts on emacs01:04:09 - Relationship with emacs community01:05:31 - Thoughts on sublime or helix01:07:39 - promiscuous01:08:13 - You used helix?01:10:22 - OS of choice01:11:13 - Distro for servers01:12:47 - Thoughts on daily driving linux?01:15:57 - Distros are an accident01:16:41 - Pushback for using macos?01:17:55 - Neovim needs windows maintainers01:19:07 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines AI generated PRs01:20:34 - Superchat01:20:58 - Justin demo01:21:14 - :restart :connect :detach01:35:23 - demo progress integration with ghostty01:38:55 - ghostty built-in inspector01:41:14 - Neovim window management01:42:08 - You use OS window manager?01:43:10 - Terminal of choice01:44:18 - Scrollback with colors in Neovim with kitty01:47:18 - Neovide01:48:48 - Thoughts on Kovid Goyal, kitty maintainer01:53:54 - Open source misconception01:56:45 - Kitty graphics and keyboard protocol01:58:47 - When does neovim 0.12 come out?02:01:00 - Thoughts on drugs and substance consumption02:06:26 - Sylvan franklin no show no call02:08:21 - Thoughts on a supreme being02:12:36 - Favorite movies02:15:13 - 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?
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Oct 24, 2025 • 3h 9min

From Arch to Debian with LinuxRenaissance

I've been thinking about Linux lately, a lot. But I'm still not sure which distro to go with, everyone keeps saying arch, but my brain, wisdom and soul say Debian. So when I find someone else that went down this path, I want to learn and hear more about it. We'll also touch on many other topicsLink to the video:https://youtu.be/0CEYNvEdsagWhat'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 - Highlights00:02:14 - Why the red hat, is it redhat related?00:05:10 - youtube channel00:08:00 - Thoughts on the Red Hat distro00:12:17 - What is Matrix, is it IRC, Element app, discord00:16:56 - So Matrix is more about ownership and censorship?00:19:40 - Thanks for the superchat @tony-btw00:20:20 - Should we use forums?00:21:55 - Darth's matrix server00:25:27 - What are matrix encrypted channels?00:27:37 - amiga, Commodore 6400:28:56 - How terminals worked in the past with serial cables00:30:58 - Debian 1.300:33:59 - Darth is 44, terminal showdown00:36:23 - Unix finger command00:37:35 - Education background and current profession00:39:20 - Rocky Linux, RHEL, Red Hat killing CentOS00:45:32 - Using macOS the way Apple has envisioned it00:48:43 - Hyprland more like "Hype" rland?00:51:14 - macOS yabai window manager demo00:53:43 - Thoughts on Hyprland00:55:10 - What is X11, xorg, wayland?00:58:12 - From Debian to Arch, then back to Debian00:58:44 - KDE plasma, wayland mode01:00:38 - using X11 as a networking protocol, similar to tmux01:03:19 - waypipe01:04:55 - Thoughts on tmux01:06:49 - Why the switch from Arch back to Debian?01:12:41 - What's the AUR? People can upload malware to it?01:15:56 - So if not using the AUR, why to use arch?01:17:05 - Dependency hell, kdenlive01:20:01 - Ended up with a lot of flatpaks01:22:00 - The straw that broke the camel’s back01:25:31 - Nix users, how can we solve this?01:27:00 - Am I just lucky with macOS?01:30:56 - Darth is from Croatia, thoughts on macOS01:33:56 - Windows is so thoughtful, taking screenshots so you remember01:40:15 - Been thinking about switching to linux01:44:24 - Which distro should I use?01:49:52 - Pacman breaking stuff01:54:08 - Thoughts on the beef with systemd01:56:49 - The unix philosophy, do 1 thing, but do it well02:01:53 - Thoughts on Omarchy02:06:35 - Zorin OS02:11:27 - Why do people use something other than Debian on servers?02:16:11 - Do you upgrade debian or fresh install?02:17:56 - How often do you upgrade, rule on automatic updates02:20:09 - Workflow demo02:28:33 - Thoughts on Kitty, Wezterm, Ghostty02:30:45 - What is suckless02:33:49 - No novices asking stupid questions02:34:23 - KDE plasma bloated?02:38:16 - What is picom?02:39:07 - OpenBSD, FreeBSD, what is it and why?02:44:50 - Who uses BSD?02:45:40 - BSD when Linus Torvalds is no longer around?02:49:00 - Is the linux community sub-divided?02:51:38 - Neovim or Emacs?02:57:48 - Is debian the king of distros?03:00:11 - Do you play games?
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Oct 17, 2025 • 2h 28min

The Workflow Debate: Are We All Doing Too Much?

In this lively discussion, Tony (Linux educator), Henry Misk (workflow engineer), and Joshua Blais (Emacs expert) dive into the complexities of modern work setups. They debate whether multiple screens enhance productivity or complicate workflows, and ponder the merits of ultrawide monitors. The trio shares tips on keyboard-centric workflows and tools like Nix for reproducible environments. Finally, they challenge the notion of over-engineering tools and emphasize the importance of simplicity and practicality in tech.
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Oct 5, 2025 • 2h 8min

JustAGuy Linux: Let's talk About the King, Debian

Let's get to know Drew from @JustAGuyLinux a bit more. I want to hear his thoughts on why he sticks to Debian, thoughts on Emacs, Neovim, other IDEs, macOS, Windows, other linux Distros, etc.Link to the video:https://youtu.be/iPZbd1GEV7sWhat'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 - Highlights00:01:47 - All these kids fighting about distros, why are you on Debian?00:05:58 - Do you need the latest packages?00:07:32 - tony neovim installing skill issues with Debian00:09:21 - Fflatpaks and appimages00:11:15 - How drew edits his videos without a video editor00:14:18 - Sponsorhips?00:15:36 - Drew's YouTube channel00:16:12 - Do you distrohop like them kids?00:19:35 - Drew's technical background00:22:22 - Thoughts on Nix00:23:26 - Thoughts on Omarchy by DHH, bloat?00:24:48 - What window manager do you use? DWM00:26:36 - What about i3?00:27:46 - bspwm for beginners, it's more modular00:31:44 - Butternotes demo00:34:56 - Why did you start a youtube channel?00:36:45 - What IDE do you use? Geany00:38:03 - Why haven't you committed to Neovim?00:40:10 - Can you teach an old dog new tricks?00:41:26 - Working on the linux cast server00:42:36 - Geany demo00:44:46 - Picom compositor smooth animations, what is a compositor?00:46:32 - From Ghostty to Wezterm, why?00:49:27 - Kitty?00:50:08 - Support projects00:50:48 - Kovid Goyal has a bad image in the community00:51:29 - Tmux?00:52:18 - Why Geany?00:53:55 - Neovim config for markdown, folds demo00:56:04 - neovim plugins00:57:52 - Emacs?00:59:55 - macos?01:01:51 - Wife and son on linux?01:03:01 - Windows01:07:34 - Is Debian the king of all distros?01:08:18 - Thoughts on AI01:10:06 - Do you train the models with your notes?01:11:51 - Homelab01:13:57 - More on AI usage01:18:24 - Single or multiple monitors?01:19:51 - @DistroTube in the chat01:20:45 - Laptop?01:22:27 - Are tiles bloat?01:25:34 - Keyboard? Thoughts on split keyboards01:27:26 - QWERTY or a different layout?01:28:14 - What movies do you recommend. Dune is bloat01:31:28 - Fan of the office?01:32:37 - What about music?01:34:01 - What bands do you recommend01:35:58 - Are you into videogames?01:36:23 - What distro do you recommend to new users?01:37:15 - Debian servers, docker, kubernetes, DNS, glusterfs01:38:40 - DEMO dwm, different layouts01:41:17 - Show the keybinds in case you forget01:43:07 - Thunar file manager01:43:26 - Codeberg DWM setup install script01:44:02 - Install Drew's deployment script on a debian server01:45:01 - What is xorg?01:46:28 - Why xorg and not wayland?01:47:38 - You can't get hyprland to work on Debian, using stable packages01:50:00 - Do stuff breaks on debian? When was the last time it happend?01:54:00 - How did you install brave?01:54:39 - Why firefox?01:55:09 - For a new Debian version, upgrade or fresh install?01:58:14 - What is codeberg?02:00:09 - Thoughts on proprietary software02:01:13 - Open source users. DON'T BE DICKS02:03:29 - Don't demand stuff in open source projects, approach things the right way02:05:56 - Final words. Go and subscribe to Drew02:07:08 - Episode will be available as a podcast
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Sep 26, 2025 • 1h 41min

Asking tony: Is NixOS Just Hype? (2077 Edition)

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
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Sep 25, 2025 • 2h 20min

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/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?
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Sep 25, 2025 • 3h 22min

Henry Misc on Neovim, Workflows, Keyboards & Coding as a Craft

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
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Sep 24, 2025 • 2h 24min

Matt from The Linux Cast on macOS, NixOS, Emacs & More

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"
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Sep 24, 2025 • 2h 25min

Meet Sylvan Franklin: Neovim, Aura coding, Pyramid Schemes & More

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
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Sep 19, 2025 • 1h 27min

kindaVim Drama: Let's Hear this Guy B***ch About his First World Problems

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

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