Programming setup

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But I look at that and go like, this is better. This is beautiful. And then you look at some of those true Linux rising setups where people go nuts with everything and you go, oh yeah, I remember when computers used to be fun in this way, when there was this individuality and this setup. And it wasn't just all planned the sameness. And I think that's the flip side sometimes of something like Apple, where they have really strong opinions and they have really good opinions, they have very good taste. And it looks very nice and it also looks totally the same. And Linux has far more variety and far more texture and flavor. Sometimes also annoyances and bugs and whatever. But I run Linux now. It's Ubuntu-based with the Omakub stuff on top. The low free keyboard. I use a Logitech, what's it called? The MX 3 mouse, which I love how it feels in my hand. I don't love how it looks. I actually was a Magic Mouse stan for the longest time. I thought it was genius that Apple integrated the track pad into a mouse,

`5:11:12`

and I used that. And I always thought it was ridiculous that people would slag it just because you had to charge it by flipping it over. 'Cause the battery would last for three months and then you'd charge it for half an hour. I thought like, that's a perfect compatibility with my sensibilities. I don't mind giving up a little inconvenience if something is beautiful, and that Magic Mouse is beautiful. But it wasn't gonna work on Linux. So I found something else. The S3 is nice, but I sometimes do wish like the Magic Mouse. That's pretty good. — Yeah, Linux is really great for customizing everything, for tiling, for macros, for all of that. And I also do the same in Windows with AutoHotKey or just customize the whole thing to your preferences. — If you're a developer, you should learn how to control your environment with the keyboard. It's faster, it's more fluid. I think one of those silly things I've come to truly appreciate about my Omakub setup is that I can, in whatever time it takes to refresh the screen, probably five milliseconds switch from one virtual desktop to another.

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Even on Windows, you can't get it that smooth. You can get close, you can't get it that smooth. On macOS, for whatever reason, Apple insists on having this infuriating animation when you switch between virtual desktops, which makes it just that you don't want to. You don't wanna run full screen apps because it's too cumbersome to switch between the virtual desktops. The kind of immediacy that you can get from a wonderful Linux setup in that regard, it's just next level. — Yeah, and it seems like a subtle thing, but you know, difference in milliseconds and latency between switching the virtual desktops, for example. I don't know, it changes... — It changes how you use the computer. It really does. — Similar thing with VR, right? If there's some kind of latency or like it just completely takes you all out of it. — And it's funny, I actually had to watch, I think it was ThePrimeagen on YouTube when he was showing off his setup and I was seeing how quickly he was switching between those virtual desktops. And I'd always been using virtual desktops, but I didn't like switching too much

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because just of that latency and it's like, oh, you can do that on Linux? Oh, that's pretty cool. So I run that, and then my editor of choice now is Neovim. — Oh good, all right. Well we're out of time. No, all right, you did for many, many years. You used, what is it? TextMate. — Yes, TextMate. — TextMate, yeah. — That was actually, that was the main blocker of moving away from Apple. Everything else I thought, do you know what? I can swing it. But TextMate was and is a wonderful editor. One, I helped birth into this world. The programmer Allan Odgaard is a good friend of mine, all the way back from the party days when we were lugging our computers around. And he was a big Mac guy. And in 2005, he was writing this editor and I helped him with the project management of kind of keeping him on track, keeping him focused on getting something released. Because I really wanted it for myself. And I thought, this was the last editor I thought I was never gonna switch. — Forgive me for not knowing,

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but how featureful as this editor is this? — It's quite featureful, but it's a GUI-driven editor in some regards. It was really early on with ways of recording macros and having sort of sophisticated syntax highlighting. And it did a bunch of firsts and it was just a really pleasant editing experience. I think these days a lot of people would just use VS Code. VS Codes exist in the same universe as TextMate in some ways. And actually I think is compatible with the original TextMate bundles, the original TextMate format. So it really trailed a path there, but it also just didn't evolve. Now a lot of people saw a huge problem with that. They were like, "Oh, it needs to have more features. It needs to have all these things." I was like, I'm happy with this text editor. That hasn't changed at all. Basically when Allan stopped working on it for a decade or more. I don't need anything else. Because as our original discussion went, I don't want an IDE. I don't want the editor to write code for me.