Dag Mischa, thank you so much for this! I'm still in the proces of building my ideal work environment, and this has helped me a lot. Most important: In my search for the ideal setup I get lost sometimes in tinkering and getting lured in by all the possibilities and tweaks. You reminded me of the principle that I also hold dearly, of cutting the distracting clutter and just make it as simple and straightforward as possible. Een dikke dikke dankjewel!
I use a macOS device to work on a remote Linux box, and I have wanted to swap out some of the (i) expensive but poorly maintained and (ii) mouse-centric tools I use for simple, powerful, and keyboard-centric alternatives. This video showed me how doable and coherent that is. Thanks from the US.
This was a very straight up and good demonstration of the terminal based development process. Unlike other devs who present nvim with their 100+ diff plugins and 1000+ customized shortcuts, this was very good. I think this will be my startup guide for nvim setup from now on.
Thank you, that's a great compliment. I agree, people make it much more complicated than necessary. I'm guilty of this too. But learning Linux well brought me back to basics and reduced the need for plugins, because most things can be achieved with UNIX filters and basic command line scripting.
Ah yes indeed, I've been honing this like a Japanese blacksmith spending weeks to refine the edge of a single blade. I'm still making adjustments to it every week as I learn new things along the way
@@mischavandenburgthat is 🔥. I sometimes get upset with myself for getting lost in learning something that isn’t immediately productive but that’s not really true if it helps every single day after you learn it. This was great vid man.
@@frackinfamous6126 thank you kind sir! Indeed I have sometimes also scratched my head looking back to an entire weekend of trying to get a language server configuration to work, but in those moments I always ask myself, did I enjoy it? If I did then it has been of value to my life some way or other
@@stevobz That's awesome. I have set up a community that can help you on this journey. I think it could be of value to you if you want to wish to achieve what I have achieved. mischavandenburg.com/skool
Nice setup!! I have a nearly identical workflow: nvim, tmux, obsidian, kitty, and I live in the terminal. I use fzf + nvim to quickly open files after fuzzy finding for files or lines of code from the terminal. Really helpful for finding code with logs. I have kitty and alacrity installed. I may switch back to alacrity for a bit because that’s a good point, alacrity doesn’t have tabs or windows and kitty does, and there’s times I accidentally opened a new tab when messing up on typing some of my keybindings in kitty. I recently go a split ergo and am embracing layers and modifiers because I’m experiencing wrist pain. I have a macro layer for some of the common keybindings I use in tmux. Helps with my wrist. Since I switched to terminal workflow, I have minimal distraction and am super productive, it also helped me learn more about Linux and actively recall commands and put concepts to use.
Thank you for comment Armando, so inspiring to read that switching to a terminal workflow has made you more productive! I have also considered split key boards. That's the only gripe I have with my HHKB: althought it is a fantastic tool which increases my productivity, having my hands so close together might cause problems in the future. We'll see. I have never tried Kitty myself, but I like the idea that if I'm fine with Alacritty then I probably don't need any more functionality. In order to offer tabs a terminal emulator would have to use more resources and this way I keep all of that to a minimum. When I reflected on my video last night I also realized that the only thing I have not mentioned is fzf! I use it all the time but somehow I didn't mention it, even though it is used by Telescope under the hood.
Thank you for your comment. Nice going in adopting all of the tools. I also learned simply by starting to use them and look up information when I get blocked somehow
the reason i am here i started watching guides of guys using neovim.. i am still VScode windows andy, but at work using mainly linux on servers connecting via xshell.. but man.. most of the guys using neovim are like gurus :P
I recently transitioned to using Neovim and recent got yabai as well. Still learning but watching your video was really nice! Somehow watched the entire thing haha, every nice video. Still need to install tmux and learn that but will take it one thing at a time
I love the well thought-out concept for your workflow, it is really inspiring. At work, I spend all day working on a Windows machine that is remotely connected to Linux VM's, and I do my personal projects in Mac OS. Having a consistent cross-platform environment is really attractive to me. I'm going to implement some of your ideas.
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear it was helpful. I'm very glad I adopted this type of workflow early in my career, so you can train the muscle memory early on.
I'm a linux admin by trade and cybersecurity analyst. I find it difficult to explain my laptop is a macbook to some. Mostly I say that I need something to open and immediately work without issue. While I love playing with linux on laptops and desktops I'm paid well enough to have a very nice daily driving laptop, and it MUST ALWAYS work. A Macbook pro is well made and its shell and terminal configurations are well suited to me.
This is an awesome workflow. Thanks a million for this. I love the philosophy behind it and how it is used. Will be using a lot of it for my days to day work
I use amethyst too, love it. But I personally couldn't stand having the animation for switching desktops so I use Raycast with keyboard shortcuts for switching between certain apps instantly. For example if I want a full screen browser and a full screen terminal, I have both apps on the same desktop with the fullscreen amethyst layout and switch between them with no animation or lag with cmd+shift+j / k
You mentioned at 2:20 that esc can be reached with your pinky. There is another solution to this, people remap the capslock key or the sequence jj as esc key inside vim to avoid using the esc key altogether. But reaching the esc via pinky is pretty useful outside of vim now that I think about it.
This is definitely an option, and I used it for quite some time until I got my HHKB. There were some rare cases where I would run into problems with words thad had the "jk" sequence in them, as I mapped it to "jk". The main advantage with having my escape key always available is that I don't need to configure any keybindings when I'm editing on a remote system. The "jk" keybinding would still be a part of the .vimrc which isn't available if you're not copying it into your VM or container. With my HHKB I can always exit editing mode comfortably, wherever I'm using vim
I've been following Tiago Forte's work for a while and was wondering if somebody had implemented his principles in markdown notetaking instead of the GUI apps he often advocates. Finally someone who has popped up in my feed. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
Don't waste your time on configuration, learn to be a very good programmer (fundamentals of cs), learn to touch type at 100-150wpm, then use any IDE they have at your job, don't attach yourself to computers, earn money, find love and start living your actual life instead of constantly fucking with a computer.
Wow awesome content, very interesting, tried T-mux 10 years ago while managing multiple servers but will definitely go back retry to insert it in my work flow.
Great video, I really enjoyed the pace, style and format. I have a very similar workflow; nvim (kickstart based config), tmux (with remapped key bindings 😅), zsh (but your point about bash has made me reconsider!), and obsidian (I can’t live without it!). A browser id recommend looking into (and I’ve recently migrated to myself) is Arc, really nice and aligns to my minimal mindset. Looking forward to the next one!
Hi Chris thank you for your comment. Cool to read that you have a similar workflow to mine, have you been using it for a long time? I'll definitely check out Arc, thank you for the tip.
as much as I remember zsh is bash compatible so if you write scripts for bash they will run on zsh. So you don't need to disable zsh. You just need to keep writing bash without using non-bash syntax.
Bash can be run in zsh, but not all zsh can be run in bash, as you confirm in your second sentence. I prefer to just use bash instead of needing to keep track if my scripts are compatible with bash.
Awesome video. Been using tiling window managers and vi keys for a long time, but have not yet seriously gotten into setting up any vim yet, so very much in that defaults kind of phase. But this video is showing me the benefits, and I had heard of Lazyvim being the best of those nvim distributions before. So far I have dreaded building out a config from scratch because there is just so much stuff available. Also that whole part on note taking is very inspiring, it ties so well into the workflow. Obisidian has come up a few times on youtube and I am looking forward to your videos and how you will balance the keyboard driven note taking vs visual notetaking. You have a very calm yet not boring presenting style, the video was easy to follow and learn from. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate the kind feedback and it motivates me to keep going with the content creation. I'm glad to hear that my style resonates with people out there! The great thing with Lazyvim is that it is fully configured out of the box and you are ready to go, and then you can either turn off things that you don't like or slowly start adding things that you feel are missing in your workflow. This way you don't have to build anything from scratch. I'm also happy to hear some interest in my note taking system, I'm already working on the mind maps for the videos so hopefully I'll make some videos on that topic in the coming weeks.
Very inspiring! I will definitely be 'stealing' some of the work you've put into this 😅 Generally when I try to add note taking or zettelkasten to my workflow it works for like a week and it's gone afterwards. Hopefully this time it will stick!
Feel free to take anything you need! :D I have now released a video about my notetaking setup which you might like: ua-cam.com/video/zIGJ8NTHF4k/v-deo.htmlsi=EF-AwSgBph6zVxvx
24:59 that brings me closer to solving my biggest problem with hjkl movement which is that when I'm in the terminal I have to use up arrows to go through previous commands 😅
This can be solved in bash: set -o vi esc kkkk -o vi sets the bash shell to vi mode and by pressing esc you can enter command mode, which scrolls back using k! you can also use motions like 0, $ , d3w or d$
We have a similar workflow. I'm firmly in Apple's ecosystem but also dabble with Linux. macOS and Linux are like distant cousins and much of what I do on macOS via Homebrew parallels what I can do on Debian or Fedora.
Very inspiring! As a software engineer, I know that I'm missing out by not taking notes. I've tried a couple of times, but there's too much friction, perhaps due to my system (Obsidian and Todoist) or my workflow. I hope you will create a post/video about note-taking.
A suggestion would be to use yabai instead of amethyst so you could disable the animations when switching desktop which I think are productivity killers + free carpal tunnel
Really really really interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm already using most of these tools and applications as well for my work/personal flows (except Edge, of course... I can't believe you (or anyone) use that seriously! hahahaa). Other than that, this video discovered me your channel... very interesting as well! Please, don't stop these nice content! Regards!!
Hi Mischa! Thanks a lot, great video. Wich excalidraw brush plugin are you using to draw those lines? I have installed "organic line" but it works differently.
Really enjoyed your video! One request and I would appreciate so much if you would do it that is, could you make a video on docker and how you use it as a devops engineer?
Excellent video, very similar to what I use (Mac with Brew and Linux with Apt) but for Linux as a desktop I use Linux Mint (I think I save time with the ease of the system, I've been very tired, redbull doesn't work anymore: ) )
I am of the firm belief that only stoic people can get this organized. There's no way you do not get overwhelmed with just the amount of data that you need to process in order to see this structure in your head. For me I cannot do something if I do not visualize the end goal properly. That is also why I struggle with understanding recursion and dynamic programming in Computer Science. And If I visualize myself as an organized person with a deterministic workflow it all kind of falls part because the pieces do not recursively make the whole.
You are my Devops Jesus(2)... Love from Bangladesh... Thank your sir for showing your setup... It would be more useful if you make a video about Tmux as a whole... I am a beginner & interested in that...
So someone probably already mentioned this to you, but if you really want to get up and running quickly and have a portable setup Nix might be a good idea. You can even use your existing config files while using this, and even install in places where Nix is not available.
dude i love your beard :) im the server guy on my team setup our entire ci/cd, build automation yada yada, help team with git and stuff and love using nvim to write scripts. subscribed
The video on productive environment is quite amazing. Being a beginner inspired by the cool tools and customisation I made a terrible mistake of cloning the repo and running the setup script on my machine and now I have no clue what's working and what's not , half of the things aren't installed and if installed then not working right. Maybe is there a way to undo the entire action?
Great watch. Just one thing. You use bash because its installed, alright. But then u use the most vscode like and neo vim possible. Im lazy too, just mentioning. Also, fish is obsly the best linux shell.
Thanks! My point is that bash is always available on the remote system. But I'm not expecting a fully-fledged development environment on those systems, so my local neovim can have more features than vanilla vim. The motions will still apply
This was such an amazing and inspirational video! I'm looking forward to become a DevOps engineer by the way. I have somewhat developed a workflow like yours bu the switch from arch to macOS hit quite hard. If you happen to read this commend would you mind if i send you a message to ask you some not-so-technical questions? Best regards and genuinely enjoying your content!
Really cool video! Thank you! 🙏 Just a small question... why don't you use Emacs? It's just one software that covers almost all the features you shown! 😜
@mischavandenburg Hi, please could you let me know which Happy Hacking Keyboard you use? There are a few different types I've been looking at. Thanks 😊
Love your setup - and the amount of thought you put into it. I'm really curious how happy you are with Amethyst - especially compared with the out-of-the-box macOs window management. Last time i tried a different WM on macos, it's been pain - but it's already 5+ years ago and i have no idea, which one it even was.
I understand the idea on moving over to macos but I would never use arch for a stable dev env. I would suggest Debian with whatever wm and kdeconnect to connect your phone to your system. Take a gander at it if you get a chance since its multi-platform. I'm also in DevOps and could really recommend it.
It sometimes itches to go back to Linux, and I do run Linux on my personal thinkpad. But I live in a reality where my employer or customer provides me with hardware that I need to work on which means I can't install Linux on it. MacOS is a great middle way for me. But I'll definitely check out your suggested setup, thanks
@@mischavandenburg dealing with company provided hardware is understandable as well if you are unable to use a vm due to power or software lockdown constraints. I actually don't run it bare metal as well though since I'm provided a company macbook. I just use a vm with Debian and i3 exclusively and allocate 90% bare metal power to it. It's also great to have checkpoints so I can roll back if something wonky ever happens and lastly, being a vm makes it portable if they happen to send you another device if you have a 2-3 years device lifecycle. Copy your vm over and you're back up and running in an hour. Again this works well for me and everybodys workflow requires something different but the joy of making this sort of thing public is you get a chance to hear many perspectives (for better or worse).
Is there a chance you’re doing a series of a deep dive to each and every tool you represented here? That’s actually something not easy to find on UA-cam yet. At least not well done or something with the potential you can make it
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Do you take any notes on your phone or while on the go? How do you get them into your system?
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. This is one of the main reasons I kept using Obsidian even though I do most of the writing in neovim. Obsidian has a pretty decent mobile app which syncs my notes across devices using iCloud. So I always have my entire note collection accessible from my iPhone or iPad and I can take notes on the go as well. I'll go into further detail in an upcoming video about my notetaking setup and Zettelkasten :)
You inspired me to decide to transform my workflow from a lot of different apps like VsCode, Notion,... to NVim + Tmux. I know this might take a while but will stick to it until the end. Also I want to ask how you configure the highlighting for bash as I used zsh and power10k before but don't know what is the good option on bash.
Hey, one thing I have kind of wondered is how you might manage databases, I'm not sure if you work with sql at all, but if you do, I would be curious to know what that looks like for you.
I'm usually only deploying them and sometimes adding a user or two, but that's about it. I hardly ever work with the contents of databases, so I don't need any extra tooling. I only use psql as I'm mostly working with Postgres databases
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Thanks to everyone commenting, because the algorithm gods fed me with this video (and channel) I didn't know I needed.
you are my devops jesus now
Hahahaha that comment made my day
Fantastic content. Awesome mindset. Love it. Keep up good work.
Please don't hurt him this time around.
And I am DevOps satan. Same goals as Mischa, much more selfish and unorganized 😂
I am also in his cult now. I will have a mac soon and want a very similar setup. Good idea to ditch zsh and use bash, I will do that
Dag Mischa, thank you so much for this! I'm still in the proces of building my ideal work environment, and this has helped me a lot. Most important: In my search for the ideal setup I get lost sometimes in tinkering and getting lured in by all the possibilities and tweaks. You reminded me of the principle that I also hold dearly, of cutting the distracting clutter and just make it as simple and straightforward as possible. Een dikke dikke dankjewel!
I use a macOS device to work on a remote Linux box, and I have wanted to swap out some of the (i) expensive but poorly maintained and (ii) mouse-centric tools I use for simple, powerful, and keyboard-centric alternatives. This video showed me how doable and coherent that is. Thanks from the US.
I was lost in a sinful path of plugins and distractions, but I got clean and was borne again in the shell thanks to this
So many puns, I like you
This was a very straight up and good demonstration of the terminal based development process.
Unlike other devs who present nvim with their 100+ diff plugins and 1000+ customized shortcuts, this was very good. I think this will be my startup guide for nvim setup from now on.
Thank you, that's a great compliment. I agree, people make it much more complicated than necessary. I'm guilty of this too. But learning Linux well brought me back to basics and reduced the need for plugins, because most things can be achieved with UNIX filters and basic command line scripting.
Never really payed attention to the difference a window manager can make until I saw your video. Well done!
Great to hear!
Love the rwxrob shout-out! That channel has been a candle in the dark night that is the windows gig I've been on the last couple years.
I've learned so much from that man, I'm forever in debt to him.
Nice, all you need is to nixify this and you are golden to avoid having to work with brew/apt/etc, really like the video
Love seeing custom configs/setups that devs have spent time to really hone
Ah yes indeed, I've been honing this like a Japanese blacksmith spending weeks to refine the edge of a single blade. I'm still making adjustments to it every week as I learn new things along the way
@@mischavandenburgthat is 🔥. I sometimes get upset with myself for getting lost in learning something that isn’t immediately productive but that’s not really true if it helps every single day after you learn it. This was great vid man.
@@frackinfamous6126 thank you kind sir! Indeed I have sometimes also scratched my head looking back to an entire weekend of trying to get a language server configuration to work, but in those moments I always ask myself, did I enjoy it? If I did then it has been of value to my life some way or other
@@mischavandenburg wow great outlook!
man living in Europe, working as a cloud/kube devops engineer, working with yaml/iaac. You are living my dream life!
I was working in a nursing home 5 years ago. What's stopping you from realizing your dream?
@@mischavandenburg only me my friend, I will reach it some day. The journey is what lead me to your video!
@@stevobz That's awesome. I have set up a community that can help you on this journey. I think it could be of value to you if you want to wish to achieve what I have achieved.
mischavandenburg.com/skool
Nice setup!! I have a nearly identical workflow:
nvim, tmux, obsidian, kitty, and I live in the terminal. I use fzf + nvim to quickly open files after fuzzy finding for files or lines of code from the terminal. Really helpful for finding code with logs. I have kitty and alacrity installed. I may switch back to alacrity for a bit because that’s a good point, alacrity doesn’t have tabs or windows and kitty does, and there’s times I accidentally opened a new tab when messing up on typing some of my keybindings in kitty. I recently go a split ergo and am embracing layers and modifiers because I’m experiencing wrist pain. I have a macro layer for some of the common keybindings I use in tmux. Helps with my wrist. Since I switched to terminal workflow, I have minimal distraction and am super productive, it also helped me learn more about Linux and actively recall commands and put concepts to use.
Thank you for comment Armando, so inspiring to read that switching to a terminal workflow has made you more productive! I have also considered split key boards. That's the only gripe I have with my HHKB: althought it is a fantastic tool which increases my productivity, having my hands so close together might cause problems in the future. We'll see. I have never tried Kitty myself, but I like the idea that if I'm fine with Alacritty then I probably don't need any more functionality. In order to offer tabs a terminal emulator would have to use more resources and this way I keep all of that to a minimum. When I reflected on my video last night I also realized that the only thing I have not mentioned is fzf! I use it all the time but somehow I didn't mention it, even though it is used by Telescope under the hood.
Thanks for making the video. I’ve started using desktops/spaces for specific apps and my setup is a lot neater.
Nice & thank you. I use part of this setup, tmux, neovim, obsidian. Still a novice, but slowly learning.
Thank you for your comment. Nice going in adopting all of the tools. I also learned simply by starting to use them and look up information when I get blocked somehow
the reason i am here i started watching guides of guys using neovim.. i am still VScode windows andy, but at work using mainly linux on servers connecting via xshell.. but man.. most of the guys using neovim are like gurus :P
started my junior devops role today. can’t wait for the day I’ll throw my mouse out the window. Thank you for sharing your awesome setup!
Glad you liked it!
oh man, you're so calm walking us through. I'd love to learn more of your pro tips about lazygit
More to come!
I recently transitioned to using Neovim and recent got yabai as well. Still learning but watching your video was really nice! Somehow watched the entire thing haha, every nice video. Still need to install tmux and learn that but will take it one thing at a time
Just take it slow and learn the things as you go along. Tmux is a fundamental part of my workflow, I hope you get as much benefit out of it as I am
You really must be quick as a wizard! great to see lazygit and it also being integrated into your neovim setup
I'm definitely quick! Lazygit definitely adds to that speed, because I can commit and push with just a few keystrokes
The production quality is crazy, what an amazing video! Great work
Thank you for the kind feedback. I'm trying to get better 1% with every upload :)
LOL
I love the well thought-out concept for your workflow, it is really inspiring. At work, I spend all day working on a Windows machine that is remotely connected to Linux VM's, and I do my personal projects in Mac OS. Having a consistent cross-platform environment is really attractive to me. I'm going to implement some of your ideas.
Good luck! Glad I could inspire you a bit :)
I'm so surprised with Zettelkasten. Just wow.... And Obsidian.
Just thank you so much!
Congrats Man! Great video! Great communication! I'm from Brazil and your English is very easy to understand! Great workflow! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thank you! I appreciate your kind feedback on my communication skills
I have an old mac book, wiped the macOS, installed arch with wayland Hyprland and Vim with couple of useful plugins and firefox, perfect setup
Noice.
Even though I've just stepped into the world of programming a few months ago, this was incredibly inspiring. Thank you for sharing!
You're very welcome! I'm glad to hear it was helpful. I'm very glad I adopted this type of workflow early in my career, so you can train the muscle memory early on.
Insane video. Thank you so much for sharing your setup.
No problem 👍 I'm glad you liked it
I'm a linux admin by trade and cybersecurity analyst. I find it difficult to explain my laptop is a macbook to some. Mostly I say that I need something to open and immediately work without issue. While I love playing with linux on laptops and desktops I'm paid well enough to have a very nice daily driving laptop, and it MUST ALWAYS work. A Macbook pro is well made and its shell and terminal configurations are well suited to me.
Ah, a man of culture I see. I wholeheartedly agree
This is an awesome workflow. Thanks a million for this. I love the philosophy behind it and how it is used. Will be using a lot of it for my days to day work
So cool the way you have configured your workflow. There are so may things i can do better/faster after watching this video. Thank you!!
I use amethyst too, love it. But I personally couldn't stand having the animation for switching desktops so I use Raycast with keyboard shortcuts for switching between certain apps instantly. For example if I want a full screen browser and a full screen terminal, I have both apps on the same desktop with the fullscreen amethyst layout and switch between them with no animation or lag with cmd+shift+j / k
OMG! Its very powerfull. I just started use neovim for the first time now. I will learn it. Please make more videos. And thank you a lot.
I'm so happy I could inspire you to start using neovim. Good luck!
You had me at vim based workflow 🤝🤜🤛
You mentioned at 2:20 that esc can be reached with your pinky. There is another solution to this, people remap the capslock key or the sequence jj as esc key inside vim to avoid using the esc key altogether.
But reaching the esc via pinky is pretty useful outside of vim now that I think about it.
or ctrl+c. i have have a remap of C-C for . lol
This is definitely an option, and I used it for quite some time until I got my HHKB. There were some rare cases where I would run into problems with words thad had the "jk" sequence in them, as I mapped it to "jk".
The main advantage with having my escape key always available is that I don't need to configure any keybindings when I'm editing on a remote system. The "jk" keybinding would still be a part of the .vimrc which isn't available if you're not copying it into your VM or container. With my HHKB I can always exit editing mode comfortably, wherever I'm using vim
I've been following Tiago Forte's work for a while and was wondering if somebody had implemented his principles in markdown notetaking instead of the GUI apps he often advocates. Finally someone who has popped up in my feed. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome!
Lloved this video, im starting to change my workflow as a developer coming from university, where all of this is not really taught.
Isn't that a shame? It is so important for productivity. But I'm glad you're finding ways to learn.
Don't waste your time on configuration, learn to be a very good programmer (fundamentals of cs), learn to touch type at 100-150wpm, then use any IDE they have at your job, don't attach yourself to computers, earn money, find love and start living your actual life instead of constantly fucking with a computer.
@@JamesSmith-ix5jdyikes. Just maybe let people do what they enjoy?
I hope can drop in DevOps career. Thanks for great valuable sharing!
Best of luck!
Glad this caught my attention. Excellent info to help me craft a new workflow. Many thanks.
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind words! More material like this is hosted on my Skool community.
Wow awesome content, very interesting, tried T-mux 10 years ago while managing multiple servers but will definitely go back retry to insert it in my work flow.
Great to hear! Good luck with your tmux journey
Like the ideal of a minimalistic workflow in general. Very cool setup, thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it!
Truly awesome 👏
You are lightyears ahead of me -- truly inspiring! I will continue thinking about easing away from the gui over time
Go for it!
You are better than a professor homie - LOVE it
Thank you very much
Great video, I really enjoyed the pace, style and format.
I have a very similar workflow; nvim (kickstart based config), tmux (with remapped key bindings 😅), zsh (but your point about bash has made me reconsider!), and obsidian (I can’t live without it!).
A browser id recommend looking into (and I’ve recently migrated to myself) is Arc, really nice and aligns to my minimal mindset.
Looking forward to the next one!
Hi Chris thank you for your comment. Cool to read that you have a similar workflow to mine, have you been using it for a long time? I'll definitely check out Arc, thank you for the tip.
as much as I remember zsh is bash compatible so if you write scripts for bash they will run on zsh. So you don't need to disable zsh. You just need to keep writing bash without using non-bash syntax.
Bash can be run in zsh, but not all zsh can be run in bash, as you confirm in your second sentence. I prefer to just use bash instead of needing to keep track if my scripts are compatible with bash.
Hey! Your video is pure gold! I'm glad I found it. Please continue your great work :)
Than you very much!
Thanks! very inspiring and relatable. I will definitely pick up some things from your video.
Glad to hear I could inspire you! If you have any questions let me know :)
Thanks for sharing this great workflow!
How do you choose between putting a note on Zettelkasten folder instead of a project/area folder?
i love rwxrob also
Excellent video. Just what I needed and presented in a meaningful way.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for your tutorials. I have learned so much from it. So many questions could be answered! ❤
You are so welcome!
Awesome video. Been using tiling window managers and vi keys for a long time, but have not yet seriously gotten into setting up any vim yet, so very much in that defaults kind of phase. But this video is showing me the benefits, and I had heard of Lazyvim being the best of those nvim distributions before. So far I have dreaded building out a config from scratch because there is just so much stuff available.
Also that whole part on note taking is very inspiring, it ties so well into the workflow. Obisidian has come up a few times on youtube and I am looking forward to your videos and how you will balance the keyboard driven note taking vs visual notetaking.
You have a very calm yet not boring presenting style, the video was easy to follow and learn from. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate the kind feedback and it motivates me to keep going with the content creation. I'm glad to hear that my style resonates with people out there!
The great thing with Lazyvim is that it is fully configured out of the box and you are ready to go, and then you can either turn off things that you don't like or slowly start adding things that you feel are missing in your workflow. This way you don't have to build anything from scratch.
I'm also happy to hear some interest in my note taking system, I'm already working on the mind maps for the videos so hopefully I'll make some videos on that topic in the coming weeks.
obsolutely love your video ! First time I see your channel, I'll watch asap all others !
That's so nice ot hear
I didn't know I needed tmux, thanks man!
Enjoy!
Awesome.video! Thank you.for.taking the time to create it.
Very inspiring! I will definitely be 'stealing' some of the work you've put into this 😅
Generally when I try to add note taking or zettelkasten to my workflow it works for like a week and it's gone afterwards. Hopefully this time it will stick!
Feel free to take anything you need! :D I have now released a video about my notetaking setup which you might like: ua-cam.com/video/zIGJ8NTHF4k/v-deo.htmlsi=EF-AwSgBph6zVxvx
I subscribed and liked your video before it finished loading. I knew this was gonna be so damn good.
That's a huge compliment thank you very much
24:59 that brings me closer to solving my biggest problem with hjkl movement which is that when I'm in the terminal I have to use up arrows to go through previous commands 😅
This can be solved in bash:
set -o vi
esc
kkkk
-o vi sets the bash shell to vi mode and by pressing esc you can enter command mode, which scrolls back using k!
you can also use motions like 0, $ , d3w or d$
Seriously inspiring stuff!
Thank you!
We have a similar workflow. I'm firmly in Apple's ecosystem but also dabble with Linux. macOS and Linux are like distant cousins and much of what I do on macOS via Homebrew parallels what I can do on Debian or Fedora.
Great video, thank you for sharing this! A lot of great insights to apply to my own workflow.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
this looks quite cool , i see k9s there, i almost forgot to use it from sometime,
adding this to my task list for viewing :p
Very inspiring! As a software engineer, I know that I'm missing out by not taking notes. I've tried a couple of times, but there's too much friction, perhaps due to my system (Obsidian and Todoist) or my workflow. I hope you will create a post/video about note-taking.
I released it last week!
Nice. Thanks for the video. I would recommend Vimium plugin for vim experience inside browser. I think there are extensions for Edge browser also.
Thanks for the tip!
Thank you for sharing your workflow
You’re welcome!
Amazing, video! thanks! regads from Buenos Aires, Saludos! Gracias
You're welcome!
A suggestion would be to use yabai instead of amethyst so you could disable the animations when switching desktop which I think are productivity killers + free carpal tunnel
Really really really interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm already using most of these tools and applications as well for my work/personal flows (except Edge, of course... I can't believe you (or anyone) use that seriously! hahahaa). Other than that, this video discovered me your channel... very interesting as well! Please, don't stop these nice content! Regards!!
Hi Mischa! Thanks a lot, great video. Wich excalidraw brush plugin are you using to draw those lines? I have installed "organic line" but it works differently.
Thank you, DevOps Jesus!
Really enjoyed your video! One request and I would appreciate so much if you would do it that is, could you make a video on docker and how you use it as a devops engineer?
Oh my bash. That is beautiful.
this is cool. i love window managers and vim^^
Awesome content! Keep going, you've motivated me to change things.
Awesome! Thank you!
Great work Mischa! Takk!
Hjertelig velkommen!
Excellent video, very similar to what I use (Mac with Brew and Linux with Apt) but for Linux as a desktop I use Linux Mint (I think I save time with the ease of the system, I've been very tired, redbull doesn't work anymore: ) )
I tried Mint and it was a nice out of the box expeirence
I am of the firm belief that only stoic people can get this organized. There's no way you do not get overwhelmed with just the amount of data that you need to process in order to see this structure in your head. For me I cannot do something if I do not visualize the end goal properly. That is also why I struggle with understanding recursion and dynamic programming in Computer Science. And If I visualize myself as an organized person with a deterministic workflow it all kind of falls part because the pieces do not recursively make the whole.
You are my Devops Jesus(2)... Love from Bangladesh... Thank your sir for showing your setup... It would be more useful if you make a video about Tmux as a whole... I am a beginner & interested in that...
So someone probably already mentioned this to you, but if you really want to get up and running quickly and have a portable setup Nix might be a good idea. You can even use your existing config files while using this, and even install in places where Nix is not available.
Several people have recommended this to me now, so I'm definitely checking it out soon
dude i love your beard :) im the server guy on my team setup our entire ci/cd, build automation yada yada, help team with git and stuff and love using nvim to write scripts. subscribed
Welcome on board! Sounds like you're on the right track
The video on productive environment is quite amazing. Being a beginner inspired by the cool tools and customisation I made a terrible mistake of cloning the repo and running the setup script on my machine and now I have no clue what's working and what's not , half of the things aren't installed and if installed then not working right. Maybe is there a way to undo the entire action?
+1 for lazygit, didn't know that one before.
Happy to share :)
Great watch. Just one thing. You use bash because its installed, alright. But then u use the most vscode like and neo vim possible. Im lazy too, just mentioning. Also, fish is obsly the best linux shell.
Thanks! My point is that bash is always available on the remote system. But I'm not expecting a fully-fledged development environment on those systems, so my local neovim can have more features than vanilla vim. The motions will still apply
Thanks, that was impressive!
Amazing video, thanks for sharing 🥳
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Much more like this is on my Skool community.
Very good content, just commenting because I saw this was a smaller channel.
Hey, thanks!🙏
This was such an amazing and inspirational video! I'm looking forward to become a DevOps engineer by the way. I have somewhat developed a workflow like yours bu the switch from arch to macOS hit quite hard.
If you happen to read this commend would you mind if i send you a message to ask you some not-so-technical questions?
Best regards and genuinely enjoying your content!
Find me on linkedin and let's connect :)
Really cool video! Thank you! 🙏 Just a small question... why don't you use Emacs? It's just one software that covers almost all the features you shown! 😜
Must.. Resist..
@@mischavandenburg Resistance Is Futile 🦬
@mischavandenburg Hi, please could you let me know which Happy Hacking Keyboard you use? There are a few different types I've been looking at. Thanks 😊
Really inspiring video! Can you tell me what video recording software you have used? It's cool that keyboard shortcuts displayed when typing
I'm using OBS and Keycastr
very good video. Thanks.
You are welcome!
I would really like a nvim config walkthrough video :D
I just uploaded it 😉
@@mischavandenburgThank you sir! Relly appreciate!
Love your setup - and the amount of thought you put into it. I'm really curious how happy you are with Amethyst - especially compared with the out-of-the-box macOs window management. Last time i tried a different WM on macos, it's been pain - but it's already 5+ years ago and i have no idea, which one it even was.
Awesome video
Thanks a lot for sharing it
Glad you liked it!
I understand the idea on moving over to macos but I would never use arch for a stable dev env. I would suggest Debian with whatever wm and kdeconnect to connect your phone to your system. Take a gander at it if you get a chance since its multi-platform. I'm also in DevOps and could really recommend it.
It sometimes itches to go back to Linux, and I do run Linux on my personal thinkpad. But I live in a reality where my employer or customer provides me with hardware that I need to work on which means I can't install Linux on it. MacOS is a great middle way for me. But I'll definitely check out your suggested setup, thanks
@@mischavandenburg dealing with company provided hardware is understandable as well if you are unable to use a vm due to power or software lockdown constraints. I actually don't run it bare metal as well though since I'm provided a company macbook. I just use a vm with Debian and i3 exclusively and allocate 90% bare metal power to it. It's also great to have checkpoints so I can roll back if something wonky ever happens and lastly, being a vm makes it portable if they happen to send you another device if you have a 2-3 years device lifecycle. Copy your vm over and you're back up and running in an hour. Again this works well for me and everybodys workflow requires something different but the joy of making this sort of thing public is you get a chance to hear many perspectives (for better or worse).
Is there a chance you’re doing a series of a deep dive to each and every tool you represented here? That’s actually something not easy to find on UA-cam yet. At least not well done or something with the potential you can make it
Absolutely! This, any all else on Kubernetes, Cloud, DevOps, Neovim etc. is or will be hosted on my Skool community. Taking special requests as well.
Great video, thank you!
One question, why not kitty instead of alacritty?
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Do you take any notes on your phone or while on the go? How do you get them into your system?
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it. This is one of the main reasons I kept using Obsidian even though I do most of the writing in neovim. Obsidian has a pretty decent mobile app which syncs my notes across devices using iCloud. So I always have my entire note collection accessible from my iPhone or iPad and I can take notes on the go as well. I'll go into further detail in an upcoming video about my notetaking setup and Zettelkasten :)
Excellent..thank you
Thank you! I have much more like this on my Skool community.
You inspired me to decide to transform my workflow from a lot of different apps like VsCode, Notion,... to NVim + Tmux. I know this might take a while but will stick to it until the end. Also I want to ask how you configure the highlighting for bash as I used zsh and power10k before but don't know what is the good option on bash.
Check out my dotfiles they should give you a good indication!
awesome content, thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Hey, one thing I have kind of wondered is how you might manage databases, I'm not sure if you work with sql at all, but if you do, I would be curious to know what that looks like for you.
I'm usually only deploying them and sometimes adding a user or two, but that's about it. I hardly ever work with the contents of databases, so I don't need any extra tooling. I only use psql as I'm mostly working with Postgres databases