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Justin M. Keyes: Neovim, Workflow, OSs, Terminals...
Season 1 Episode 36
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:
What's the best way to support me?
https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough
Timeline:
00:00:00 - Highlights
00:04:24 - Justin in New York but loves Florida
00:06:01 - Why do you do all this?
00:08:15 - Justin works at Amazon
00:09:51 - Hate in reddit at the beginning
00:12:07 - Neovim multiplied Vim's energy
00:13:30 - Does Neovim move faster than Vim?
00:15:03 - Are you Neovim's benevolent dictator?
00:16:04 - Did Neoviim gain a lot of popularity because of Prime?
00:17:46 - Justin will become a streamer
00:19:39 - Thoughts on Security
00:23:08 - Install Neovim on remote VMs?
00:25:19 - Minimal plugins
00:25:53 - Integrating webassembly
00:28:02 - Thoughts on distros, lazyvim
00:29:51 - Making Neovim beginner friendly
00:32:14 - oh my zsh bloat?
00:34:02 - What happened to kickstart?
00:34:58 - Neovim's plugin manager
00:36:17 - Core minimal and modularize?
00:38:17 - Is extending neovim bloat?
00:41:01 - Neovim embedded terminal was called bloat
00:43:41 - Super chat, embedded terminal slow neovim
00:45:23 - libghostty integration
00:47:35 - Thoughts on moving away from defaults?
00:50:21 - How do you get to normal mode
00:51:49 - Relationship with the subreddit community
00:53:04 - Neovim history, you started it?
00:55:43 - Afraid of alligators?
00:56:35 - Open source burdain
00:57:28 - What happens when you go to emacs?
00:59:54 - Theena moving to emacs, thoughts
01:02:51 - Thoughts on emacs
01:04:09 - Relationship with emacs community
01:05:31 - Thoughts on sublime or helix
01:07:39 - promiscuous
01:08:13 - You used helix?
01:10:22 - OS of choice
01:11:13 - Distro for servers
01:12:47 - Thoughts on daily driving linux?
01:15:57 - Distros are an accident
01:16:41 - Pushback for using macos?
01:17:55 - Neovim needs windows maintainers
01:19:07 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines AI generated PRs
01:20:34 - Superchat
01:20:58 - Justin demo
01:21:14 - :restart :connect :detach
01:35:23 - demo progress integration with ghostty
01:38:55 - ghostty built-in inspector
01:41:14 - Neovim window management
01:42:08 - You use OS window manager?
01:43:10 - Terminal of choice
01:44:18 - Scrollback with colors in Neovim with kitty
01:47:18 - Neovide
01:48:48 - Thoughts on Kovid Goyal, kitty maintainer
01:53:54 - Open source misconception
01:56:45 - Kitty graphics and keyboard protocol
01:58:47 - When does neovim 0.12 come out?
02:01:00 - Thoughts on drugs and substance consumption
02:06:26 - Sylvan franklin no show no call
02:08:21 - Thoughts on a supreme being
02:12:36 - Favorite movies
02:15:13 - What's the best way tu support neovim monetarily?
02:17:27 - Corporate sponsorships on Neovim?
02:20:17 - Would you like to work full time in neovim?
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