specifically these days into k -dramas honestly
like my like my mother -in -law really yeah is
that the korean ones yeah exactly yeah they're
for old ladies man how did you end up there and
realistically you can't change people the only
way that i had any success i don't want to say
converting but convincing people that this is
a good idea is when they came to me with a genuine
curiosity and they were interested why i'm doing
it yeah and then i share why i'm doing it without
saying that you should do the same but i believe
this is how i had the most success in getting
the message across and yeah it doesn't work if
i just you know go up to random people and tell
them well You should do the same, you know, that's
not how it works. It also doesn't work at work
with like Neo of M. Like I'm preaching the gospel
of Neo of M at work, but nobody cares. Now, what
is this? Is it some sort of metal? Oh, it has
the pig voice, right? That squeaks. Is that what
it is? I can see this guy doing the pig sounds.
Is that? That is not necessarily pig sounds,
but if you're listening to this as a podcast,
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let's get started with this chapter then. What
are we doing today? I have another guest, Hendrik.
You may have seen him. as henry misc on youtube
hey hendrik hey how's it going good good and
you yep doing good as well so um thanks for being
here with us man and um you know it's a holiday
where you're at it's a holiday here as well but
i have to work but um where where are you at
by the way i'm based in barcelona spain barcelona
spain okay Now, are you from Spain as well? Were
you born there? No, originally I'm from Germany,
but I've been living here since 2018, more or
less. Oh, yeah? And how did that happen? Why?
If you want to share it with us. Yeah, so I guess
the main motivator for me was my fiance. And
yeah, she's from Spain. Basically, we've been
living in Germany before and then there was kind
of a break where I've been working in a different
industry before. I was actually in sales at some
point and I wanted to do something else and get
into tech. And so I wanted to do a master's degree.
And when I decided where to do it, then Spain
came up as one of the options where I can do
this kind of degree. And yeah, that's why. We
decided then to try it in Spain and move here.
Where did you say she was or she is from? Is
she from Spain or Germany as well? It's complicated.
She was born in Germany, but none of her parents
are German. So she doesn't have the German citizenship.
And then when she was kind of young, they moved
to Spain. So I think she's mostly Spanish at
this point. Okay, okay. And what did you study
in Spain? The master's, you said, right? And
what is it related to? Data science. Data science.
Oh, okay, okay. And what did you study like in
college in Germany? Also not in Germany. For
my undergrads, I went to the Netherlands. And
there I actually initially studied business.
And also the reason why business and not tech
is also kind of a long story. We kind of get
into that if you're interested. But yeah. Oh,
okay. Business. Okay. And how did you end up
in tech then? Like you studied business. Are
you a developer? Or what are you then? Are you
a businessman? All of it? At this point, I do
mostly MLOps. So kind of DevOps for machine learning.
I transitioned a bit into that from data science
as a basis. And actually I started programming
when I was kind of young. So like around 10 years
old. Back then, basically my stepdad, he was
into computer science and he was an engineer.
And he was kind of my role model and I wanted
to become like him, you know? And so I said,
I don't understand anything what you're doing.
How does programming work? Like where do you
type the code? I found this idea that you can
just type something in a computer and then you
have a program that solves a problem. That's
kind of amazing. So he gave me this book. And
back then it was Visual Basic. Terrible language.
Terrible language. Yeah, but a good entry point
back then. And so I started programming with
this Visual Basic. And actually also initially
my main motivation was to... um build bots for
a game that i was playing and to build key loggers
to spy on my girlfriend so yeah i was always
in it for the right reasons i guess um anyway
so basically my stepdad at some point when i
was around 15 he uh left me and my mom sort of
overnight uh and i've not seen him ever since
and Yeah, at that point. So it was basically
like he found a younger woman and said, well,
yeah, see ya, I guess. Have a good rest of your
life. Have you heard about him after that? Not
at all. No. And I guess I only realized it now,
many years later. But I think back then I kind
of, he was my role model. And then I realized
my role model was actually an asshole. And I
didn't want to become like him. So I kind of
had to leave this tech world, let's say, and
I wanted to do something completely different.
And that's how I ended up ultimately in business.
And then many years later, I reconnected back
to that, I guess, childhood memories. The IT
-related stuff. So what made you go back to programming
and stuff? Yeah, so... After I studied business,
I actually got a decent job in Germany at a big
company, but it was more project management and
sales related. And I guess many of us in the
Neovim community and Linux and that kind of stuff,
we are more on the introverted side. So I guess
you can tell that sales is not my natural strong
suit. And even in that world, I found myself
really... enjoying most when I work with Excel
or something logical that is built with numbers
and math and this kind of stuff. And I noticed
that I wanted to spend way more time on these
basic sales analysis than actually doing the
stuff that I was hired to do. And so I realized
I had to do something else. And data science
was a natural transition because it's still kind
of related to business. There's lots of business
applications in data science. And it was a smoother
transition to me than going into, I don't know,
backend development at that point. Okay. And
how did the YouTube thing happen then? I'm going
to switch to my screen here so we can take a
look at your channel. And this has always, you
know, I have always had this question. How come
you have so... few videos only 19 videos and
you have 7 000 subscribers i have 8 000 subscribers
and i have like damn like i don't know 253 i
lost count already i just lost count completely
right so how did all this happen like why did
you decide to start a youtube channel so i have
a theory um why that might be the case and i
think it's it comes down to three factors and
i only control two of them so it looks like bimety
right that has to do i don't know about that
but um i believe that uh first a few of my videos
had pretty good timing i guess by accident so
i think the most popular video got like 180 000
views or something at this point yeah So it's
like NeoVim from scratch based on Kickstart and
Vim. And I think it was right at the time where
Prime suggested to start with Kickstart when
you want to get into NeoVim. So I guess I got
a lot of clicks through just organic search.
That's my assumption. And the next part, and
I also think the Level Up Your Vim game that
also had just good timing. There was not a lot
of content 11 months ago like this. on YouTube.
So I think it was just lucky timing. The second
factor is the thumbnails. And I also don't control
that very much, to be honest. Because it is really
tough. And I'm terrible at the aesthetics. So
usually I come up with this thumbnail and title
concept. But then I go to my fiance, to Kelly,
and I ask her like, Can you make this beautiful?
Can you make this pop? Okay, okay, okay. That's
the trick then. Okay. Exactly. So maybe you can
see that there is a woman's hand involved in
all of these thumbnails. Man, yeah, because they
make you click. That's the thing, you know? You
have to make people click. I cannot figure it
out yet, man. I don't figure out thumbnails.
Sometimes I come up with good ideas, I think,
but no, they're not clicked. it is super tough
and if i come up with the initial design then
it always looks terrible and she's like oh no
you can't do it like this let's rearrange some
stuff oh this has to be smaller this has to be
bigger it has to pop more you know oh and i would
never think about these uh things myself and
she's just amazing at this and you do that thumbnail
first or the video first because i was talking
to elliot he's the dreams of code guy i don't
know if you've seen him he has a big channel
he said do the thumbnail first and the title
first i always do the thumbnail and the title
at the end once the video is done i just come
up with something quick whatever but i think
it's a huge part of it and i haven't tried doing
it first how do you do it yeah that's that's
interesting so i definitely started doing video
first and then thumbnail and title but these
days i also try to do it in the same order that
a viewer might experience the video. So they
see the thumbnail first, then they see the title,
they click on the video. And for me, it helps
when I think like this from a viewer's perspective
to deliver on the expectation, if that makes
sense. Yeah, makes sense. But you have like a
general idea, right? Just a thumbnail comes to
your mind and then you create the video based
on the thumbnail? Or it's like, okay, I have
this video idea, but I'll create the thumbnail
first. I mean, I don't want to sound like I figured
it out because I definitely haven't. It's still
very much random what I do. But these days I
have like a Kanban board where I try to organize
my ideas and they sort of develop over time in
Obsidian. So whenever I have an idea, I create
like a new note in kind of a brainstorming column
of this Kanban board. And then, yeah, whenever
I find something that relates to that, I just,
you know, paste links there, resources, maybe
take some notes. And then when I feel that there's
substance to the idea, I move it to the next
column, which is more like, okay, I prioritize
this video and I want to make a video about it.
And yeah, this is how kind of the ideas develop
over time. agile methodologies in your video
creation right all of the little bits a little
bit okay okay and why did you decide to start
with youtube then like um what was the reason
that made you oh you know i'll start a youtube
channel and start sharing all this stuff honestly
it was so at work i realized that at this point
i am not so much limited anymore by my technical
skill even though like you can always develop
more and more but at this point i've figured
out the basics and i can give an informed opinion
on my things and i might have an idea of how
to implement things and solve problems but what
i'm more more limited by is my ability to communicate
ideas to others and so instead of in the last
like feedback cycle and we have an education
budget at work that we can use every year and
i decided to spend that on a course for communication
i have to do that and i actually didn't finish
the course because the the guy the instructor
he said all of this is going to be useless if
you're not willing to film yourself and speak
to a camera and watch the recording back Because
this is how you notice the mistakes you make,
the ums and ahs and all the flaws that you have
in the communication. And he said, yeah, just
pick a topic that you know a lot about that you
can talk about and film yourself. And I said,
okay, at this point, I might as well do it properly,
start a YouTube channel. just talk about the
vim topic because i can talk about this for ages
and i don't have anyone who wants to listen to
it but maybe somewhere in the world there's someone
out there who likes to to hear that and uh yeah
that's kind of how how it went and i actually
helped a lot i mean i'm still not a great communicator
by any means but especially early on it took
me so long to record a video because i made so
many mistakes and oh yeah it took me so many
attempts just to you know deliver a sentence
properly and it is really tough when you're by
yourself when there's two people involved like
right now the conversation flows and it's easier
but when it's you recording the video by yourself
you just make mistakes and you have to redo it
again and again i don't know what happens but
it's different when you're doing it by yourself
compared to when you're you know in an interview
or something like that have you felt that because
i make way more mistakes when i'm doing the videos
by myself Definitely. I'm also interested in
how you approach it. Do you script your videos
or do you just, you know, raw dog it? No, I just
raw dog it. I just go. I do have in my Skitty
Notes app, I have like a guideline of the things
that I want to cover, right? So I'm in the...
shower and i remember oh i have to say this in
the video and i just grab my phone that's something
that i like about the apple notes right now because
i just say siri new notes right i hope it doesn't
pick it up and starts doing crap right now because
i'm recording but when i say that it just what
i want to say and i just tell it what i want
to say and it saves it in as a text in in my
notes so i can look at it in the computer so
then i just come and i just add that in my skiddy
notes just the points that i need to cover in
the video and then i just go through them okay
i already did this and i move on to the next
one i just cover all of them and that's it but
i don't script it do you script it that's actually
amazing this i wish i had this notes functionality
but i don't think it exists on android or at
least i'm not aware of it so i tried scripting
and the earlier the videos are the the more you
can tell it is scripted. At least the intro.
I tried to really nail the intro, but I can't
read from a script and make it look natural because
you can see my eyes, I'm moving, I'm reading
the script. It looks very bad. So basically the
only option I have is memorize one sentence,
record it, memorize the next one, record it.
And that's terrible. That's very slow and painful.
So these days... I also noticed that my viewer
retention is much better when I just get straight
into it. And I noticed that also with Sylvain's
videos. Yeah, he doesn't have a lot of cuts.
Yeah, exactly. He goes straight to the point,
you know, like maybe one, two sentences intro
and that's it. And I think a lot of people appreciate
that if you're kind of no bullshit and just get
to it, like just deliver what people are here
for. Yeah, that's a really good point. I did
try to script. The first ones, I have huge blog
posts. Like I have a video in which I go over
how to install Windows 11 via what is this thing
called Pixie Boot, right? So instead of having
a flash drive, you install Windows 11 through
your network. So I have a blog post about that.
Basically, my video is going through the entire
blog post. It's a huge blog post and it's extremely
time consuming. You know, I try that for the
first few. few videos and then i was like man
no it takes way too long so now i just say whatever
i want to say and um i should script the first
30 seconds you know to grab their attention and
just tell them what the video is going to be
about but i don't think about it too much it's
just hit record go and people leave in those
first 30 seconds so i think that's a important
part to script at least right and try to memorize
it and try to make it look natural i would assume
right yeah at least have like some bullets bullet
points ready that you want to talk about yeah
yeah and um all of your videos are related to
um neovim right and um i'm not sure if you have
been related i i saw well neovim workflow and
mac os and all that stuff why um Did you decide
to start trying BIM motions? Like, why did you
take that jump? And if you want to share about
your experience as well, the first few times
that you tried them, how did you feel? Did you
feel like crap or it was natural to you? No,
it was definitely not natural. Now it's natural.
Now it feels like nature, but it definitely wasn't
from the beginning. But the main motivation for
me was actually ergonomics. So I have been struggling
with wrist pain and this carpal tunnel stuff
that I think a lot of people have for a very
long time. And I just couldn't work pain -free
on my computer for extended periods of time.
So I got myself one of, I don't know if you can
see it. Oh, I have that one. The MX Vertical.
Exactly. You can connect it up to three devices,
right? yeah it is pretty cool and it also alleviated
the pain a little bit but it didn't fully solve
the problem because the i realized that the the
root cause was that i have very bad habits of
navigating on my computer because i switch between
my mouse and my keyboard in very unnatural ways
i didn't know how to touch type and it just didn't
feel didn't feel good and i had like very crampy
movements And that was actually the root cause
of this pain. So I felt I had to develop a workflow
that is much better, that helps me, that glues
my hands to the keyboard. And this is how I naturally
came across Vim. So at first I tried to activate
Vim motions in VS Code. And honestly, I didn't,
I mean, it was tough to learn them, but my mentality
was always, if I just stay in insert mode, then
it's just... regular VS Code, you know? So I
just went straight into cold water. I just at
work in my VS Code, I just activated the Vim
plugin. And then whenever I had to do something
urgent, I just stayed in insert mode and just
did regular controls. Yeah, arrow keys, control
C and V for copying and stuff like this. And
that worked quite well. But then whenever I had
a not so urgent task, I forced myself really
to touch type. and to to use the motions and
this is how i um got a little bit better over
time okay okay and um um ergonomics you mentioned
did it help you with um wrist pain how is that
going because i did experience that um on this
arm specifically here and i was concerned but
i used hyper a lot with my pinky you know i used
hyper back then a lot and uh i think that it
caused a huge problem for me i moved it to my
thumb after that and it's been better but um
i switched to a different keyboard how is that
for you right now are you still in pain you're
writing the emax pinky As they call it sometimes.
Basically, that's what I did, I think, yeah.
No, these days it's much better. I think also
home row mods help a little bit because they
prevent you from, you know, jumping with your
pinky to the shift keys and stuff like this.
That's much better. And I moved to a mechanical
keyboard initially to also the Logitech one.
I think it's called MX Mechanical or something.
That made things a little bit worse, actually,
because the movement for the key movement of
mechanical keyboards is much larger. So you have
to press more than on a Mac keyboard. That's
what I've been thinking as well. It forced my
hands kind of inward. I don't want to block the
camera. And I still need to jump a lot between
the keyboard and the mouse. Now I have a split
keyboard, and that... That helps a lot. And I
have also the trackpad in between those two keyboard
halves. And yeah, for me, that helps a lot. Not
scrolling with the scroll wheel on the mouse,
but using the trackpad and then having my hands
rested on the two keyboard halves. It works much
better. Which one do you have? Which split keyboard?
I have this one. Maybe I can show it. Oh, what
is that? Oh, no. I don't know what that is. Iris
from Keep .io, I think. Let's see. Iris. Keep
.io. Let me switch here. Yeah, it's a low profile
Iris. Yeah, exactly. Oh, not this one, right?
This has regular switches. No, the compact edition.
This one. Yes, exactly. Okay. And how has that
been? Has it been good? You still have your numbers
there. You have four thumb keys. Okay. Seems
like a good option, right? Yeah. Honestly, the
layout is almost optimal for me. I wish it had
two more thumb keys, one more on each side. And
otherwise it's, yeah, I have no complaints whatsoever.
It's very high build quality. It has like a metal
frame, just feels overall really good. I did
spend a lot of time though to program it. and
come up with a mapping that makes sense for me
and layers that make sense for me but to me this
is perfect i can still use a number keys uh yeah
qrt layout and which is also important for me
because i wanted to still be able to use a regular
uh computer you know okay no complaints whatsoever
rumen in the comments says if it's easy to map
it because he has a voyager and uh They have
like a special software web page that you go
to. How do you do this? Do you do it in GitHub
in a repo or they have a tool? So it comes with
a tool called VIA pre -installed. Do you know
it? Nope. So VIA is pretty good, but it's also
a bit limiting. It is a tool that you can use
from your browser. So you connect your keyboard
and then you can basically remap keys. It's an
open source tool, I guess. And that's pretty
easy, but it only works for basic key remaps.
But that comes pre -flashed. Then I flashed it
again with QMK. That gives you a lot more flexibility,
but also then the downside is you have to always
reflash your keyboard if you want to make a change.
But yeah, I only did it once in the beginning
and I haven't touched it since. Oh, so it's QMK,
it's not CMK, right? You could install that,
I guess, if you wanted to. Okay. I don't even
know what the difference is, QMK and CMK. WiseOserious
in the comments has told me a couple of times,
and it just goes like this right over my head.
I forgot it. Sorry, WiseOserious, in case you...
He said that he's not going to respond to me
at all anymore. Now... How easy is it to reach
the thumb key here at the top? Isn't it too difficult?
These two, because it's one on top of the other.
Yeah, so the lower thumb keys, they're very easy
to reach. So my thumbs rest naturally on those.
But then the upper thumb keys, I can't really
press them without pressing the one below. So
I actually use them with my index fingers and
I have the backspace key there. Maybe a bit unusual,
but it works, yeah. Oh, I see. You have the backspace
there? Yeah, I have delete on the left side and
backspace on the right. Okay, makes sense. Was
it designed for you to press it with your index
or that's something you just came up with? I
think I came up with that. I don't know. There's
another layout that is similar. I think it's
called Lily58 or something. I do believe that
is... slightly better layout than this iris layout
but i didn't find any pre -built options from
a reputable brand so i went with this one okay
i see yeah because the glove 80 is you will not
be able to see it there but it has like a little
it's this key is is higher and this one is lower
right so you can reach them But to be honest
with you, the Glove 80, I'm just using two keys
right now at the moment, two thumb keys. These
two, right? This one and this one. Because I
realized that, yeah, it's comfortable to have
a lot of thumb keys, but this stretching that
you need to do, it feels, you start to feel it
after a while, right? This, and then go up here,
up here, and up here. Look at this. To reach
these, look how my thumbs are. And I always like
to keep my hands in the home row, right? So I
like to keep them here. But reaching this, using
your thumb a lot, you start to feel it after
a while. So I just went with two right now. These
two that are the closest to me. So the top row
of the thumb keys is not mapped at all? No. They're
not doing anything. Just the two at the bottom.
Because that's where my thumbs are resting all
the time, right? So it's pretty natural for me
to type this and this one as well. And pretty
easily. And I'm not using the numbers. But the
reason is because I pre -order a keyboard. Let's
see. Let me look for it. Oh, the Korn. Yeah,
but this is a prototype. That's a popular one.
Yeah, this is a prototype that they... They closed
the orders already, but it's low profile. Because
what you said, I have that theory, you know,
that these switches, even if it's chalk switches,
even if it's low profile switches, they are harder
to press compared to like my MacBook. No, well,
the external Apple keyboard, right? So that was
really soft. It didn't hurt my hands at all.
So I was waiting for someone to come up with
this. Because I want to try lower switches, not
chocks, which are the lowest at the moment, but
something even lower, right? So if you compare
this, well, here's the regular, here's the chocks.
But look at this thing. It's pretty flat. Oh,
wow. I hope I'm not disappointed when I give
it a try. We'll see what happens. It definitely
looks very sleek. Yep. and i do agree on the
key travel i mean the more you have to press
the more movement you have to make in general
so i believe that's a little bit less ergonomic
than just being able to rest your hands and making
very small key presses yeah what do you think
about the the chalk sorry the the corn layout
don't you think it's a bit restrictive well that's
the thing that i got used to using only 40 keys.
Before I purchased this, I was planning on buying
a Korn, right? Because I noticed as well that
the more your fingers travel, the more they hurt,
right? So if I'm just using the home row right
now, the row above and the row below, that's
it, right? My fingers don't travel to the number
to this row up here or to the F keys, which are
way higher. So the numbers are too difficult
to reach for me. Well, they're not comfortable,
right? They're not comfortable. I never got used
to them and I've been typing for, what, 20 years.
Numbers are here. F keys are here. That's too
much of a stretch. It's too much for me. So now
I'm just using these three rows. My numbers are
easily accessible, right? With my thumb here,
I enable this layer. I can type the numbers.
They're in my home row, right? numbers are pretty
easy to type symbols are above right on the row
above pretty easy to type as well so i got used
to those 40 keys right the corn has 42 keys so
i'm still going to be having two extra keys you
know but i remapped even my macbook keyboard
the laptop keyboard i remapped it so i'm just
using 40 keys on that keyboard as well the exact
same thing exact same layout so I got used to
it. The first few days were painful. I hated
it. You know, I even recorded some videos and
I was doing a live stream. I was bad. I was really
slow, but got used to it already. And that's
why I decided to purchase it. We're going to
see how it goes. Now, I do think that the ferris
sweep is a mistake. to be honest with you, because
that one has only 34 keys. And Wisehole Series
is there in the comments. And just to be able
to type an uppercase letter, he has to type like
four different keys combinations and do one shot
tricks. And I don't know what he has to do just
to type a single uppercase letter. What are your
thoughts there? Yeah, that's exactly why I personally
prefer to have a little bit less minimal keyboard.
Because I travel a lot and that's also why I
went for something that's a bit more low profile.
But I don't travel that much that I need to save
the extra weight and space. It's still okay for
me. Save this amount of space, right? Yeah, exactly.
So I also do get the appeal. It's very cool to
never have to move your fingers more than one
key away. That's amazing. But yeah, I'm also...
not so into it that i for example i still use
the number the number row that i still have available
rather than the numpad that i have mapped on
a layer so most of the time i still use the the
number row which is not ideal but yeah yeah i
guess over time i get used to it yeah but i realize
that it's difficult because you you create a
numpad in in the keyboard but it's difficult
to remember where they are but if you just use
the same row The number row, but you move it
two layers below to the home row and you have
it on a different layer. It's easy. You don't
have to relearn where your numbers are, right?
They're just lower. They're easier to type. It
worked. I found it in Google. I found an image.
I don't know the name of the layout, but I grabbed
that part for my, you know, and it has been working
fine. The symbols as well, but that's the thing
with the corn. I do use the keys on the side,
right? The outer pinky rows for escape and for
shift. I have them there. So I cannot use a various
because I would miss those keys a lot. I cannot.
Yeah. I cannot do it without those. And you're
planning on staying on that keyboard. Have you
thought about other one? Let's see. I mean, I'm
still quite happy with it. I got it like one
and a half or two years ago. And so far, I have
no regrets. And the good thing is that it is
quite portable. So yeah, so far, I don't need
anything else. But I'm also eager to try. Maybe
at some point, some brand wants to sponsor me
and send me the keyboard. Then I'm willing to
try it out. But yeah, so far. Hopefully. What
are your thoughts on sponsorships, by the way,
now that we touched on that? Yeah, sponsorships
is an interesting topic. I mean, I feel like
the current audience that I have, they probably
don't subscribe to my channel because they necessarily
care too much about my personal opinion on topics.
I think... they want to see your content yep
yeah they have been quite dry so far i haven't
shared a lot of personal stuff you know so my
guess is that most people probably found me through
organic search they had a problem i don't know
a new vim config or something like that they
found a video maybe it helped them and maybe
they liked the type of style that i have so they
subscribed but they don't probably care too much
about my opinion from me as a person because
i also haven't shared much personal stuff so
i find that a bit awkward like let's say you
ask a stranger because at this point um me and
my audience we are still strangers i like to
get to know them and maybe um i will also share
more about myself but let's say you ask something
to a stranger and a stranger you know might help
you and solve your problem but imagine then the
stranger is like well you know i think you should
get a vpn Here's my discount code. I don't know.
That doesn't sit right with me. Maybe over time,
once I have shared more personal things, the
audience, they still like it. And there's more
of a relationship, more long -term, more trust
established and this kind of stuff. Then it's
different. Then when I have a product that I've
been using myself for a long time, Why not? If
I actually believe it helps someone and someone
would find it useful, then why not? I mean, for
example, for fitness, I've been working a long
time with a personal coach to work on flexibility
and handstands and stuff like this. So I hired
him and I've been working with him for three
years. And we are both into barefoot shoes. Oh,
I want to try those. I want to try them. I've
watched videos. I want to try them. That's an
ad that I would watch and I'd be like, oh, Hendrik,
you're going to get me. It doesn't fit into my
channel at all. But the point is, so we both
really love this German brand for barefoot shoes.
And I know he loves it. I love it. And I saw
the other day that they're running a sale right
now. So I sent him the link and said, well, have
you seen this? And he was like, no, I haven't
seen this, but I actually need a new pair right
now. So he ordered one. And I didn't have any.
ulterior motives or you know i didn't get any
commission from that i just generally believed
that he would really love that he would benefit
from that maybe and so that's that's to me a
different story because i know him i know what
he likes i know what he what he wants and yeah
so in this case i feel this would be very beneficial
but in terms of youtube i'm not at the point
yet where this would make sense i believe you
feel your audience would feel disappointed if
you put ads in there yeah it would be way too
early it would i think it would feel like um
like a cash grab you know like i'm trying to
put out a few videos and like start squeezing
as much money out of it as early as possible
so yeah you have only 19 videos so I do see that.
But if the ad is related to your content, let's
say that it's a tool that you trust in. For example,
I offer two tools in my videos, which I use.
1Password is the password manager that I use.
They never reach out. I wish they would reach
out because it's a tool that I believe in. I
had to create like a code, right? You go into
a website, you create a code. So if people subscribe
to that link. You get a commission in theory.
No one has done that, you know, but it's a tool
that I believe in. I wish they would sponsor
me because it's something that I use every day.
Another one that I use is that app, you know,
which is like a Netflix of apps on Mac OS. So
I install apps that I through set up and I use
it. You know, I generally use it. I've been using
it for. I have videos about it. I recommend it
as well, but they haven't reached out. So I guess
if it's something that you believe in, it's fine.
I don't care what the audience thinks too much
as well in that regard, because my main goal
is to make money out of this to support my family.
Eligere these nuts. Eligere means pick. You know,
that's the tool that Roman created. It's a what
is that, Roman? It's like a. tool that allows
you to switch to different browsers i have a
video about that as well but yeah if it's a tool
that i believe in i'll make a video i'll like
there's a trickster app on mac os the guy reached
out afterwards because he saw my video because
i believed in that application i use it so even
if i have no money from recommending apps i'll
do it but if a sponsor reaches out you know like
notion and it's this conversation that we're
having right now It's going to be like two hours,
right? I don't mind putting a notion ad in between.
It's like, whatever. The viewer is still going
to get the content, right? They're going to get
the interview. They're going to watch a small
ad. I'm going to make some money out of it. Win
-win, right? That's what I think. But yeah, people
tend to be sensible with that type of thing because
then they start calling you a sellout and all
that stuff, right? No, I totally get it. Definitely.
Also, you've been in the game for a little bit
longer and you've made much more videos and you've
built a lot more trust in the relationship with
your audience, much more than I have. So I guess
it's different at that point already. It's been
only like over a year, close to two years right
now. Not too long enough, but I have created
a lot of videos. Spammed YouTube, basically,
you know. So we'll see what they say. I'll let
you know. But so far in the setup videos, no
one has said anything. When I recommend 1Password,
no one has said anything. So, you know, I don't
know if I would recommend something that I don't
believe in, even for the money. No. Like Brilliant,
I would do because it's a platform that looks
interesting. But don't go to Brilliant. They
have to pay me before you go there. before you
go there. So no, this video, no, brilliant. I'm
not going to say their name because they had
to give me money. But if it's something that
goes against my beliefs, I'm a vegetarian. I
don't eat meat. So if a meat company comes to
me and says, hey, I'm not going to do it because
it goes against my beliefs, you know. So it has
to be aligned. And I'll, you know, Notion, I
have never used Notion. I'm not planning on using
Notion, but if they reach out, it's like, whatever.
I'll put a Notion ad. So it's complicated, I
guess. Cool. I'm also a vegetarian, so we can
bond over that. Oh, you are? Yeah. And how has
that been? When did that happen? You know, as
all good things, they... Careful, because in
the comments, the crazy guys are going to come.
Yeah. no my my fiance started that as well oh
and mine too so when we it's always like this
so when we were dating initially 11 years ago
um she didn't mind me uh eating meat or anything
like she had nothing against that and i still
don't have anything um against that uh people
should do what they what they believe in but
so initially i started preparing meat on the
side so we would make a vegetarian meal so that
she can also eat and then i would make some meat
in addition to that but you know we were students
didn't have a lot of money and also we didn't
have a lot of time to to make like these extravagant
meals all the time so i started just eating vegetarian
and for convenience i just stuck to it and i
didn't even notice how i was being converted
so oh yeah And kind of the philosophy behind
that came a little bit later. Oh, and how long
have you been a vegetarian? Yeah, around that
time, like 11 years, more or less. Oh, really?
How long? Yeah, me, my daughter is eight right
now. Nine, 10. And 11 years, approximately. Around
10, 11, right? Because my daughter was born as
a vegetarian. She's eight. One month of pregnancy
and a little bit over 10 years vegetarian right
now. But I live in a third world country and
it's really tough here, man, because I don't
live in the city. I live like three hours away
from the city. There's not even one, a single
vegetarian restaurant. Let's not even say vegan,
right? Because no one has an idea. Impossible.
Yeah. Every single restaurant here, they don't
have any vegetarian options at all. Not even
one. Not on the supermarket. So it's really tough
living in a country like this and being vegetarian.
You're in Spain. That's way more advanced. And
I guess you have a lot of vegetarian options
there, right? Man, Barcelona, it's like so easy,
to be honest. I have seven or eight vegan restaurants
at a walking distance. So like this, it's so
easy, honestly. It's different if you're in the
countryside in Spain, obviously, but in the big
cities, it's very easy. There's a small town
here in Guatemala. It's by the lake. There's
a lake. There's a town. It's called San Marcos
La Laguna because it's around the lake. It's
just tourists there, people from all around the
world. And they do have a lot of vegetarian options.
So when we go there with my wife and daughter,
it's like heaven. We can go and eat anywhere
and we don't have to be talking to the waiters
and giving them instructions. Hey, I want this,
but make sure that it does not include this.
When we go there, it's pretty cool. Everywhere
else, it's a challenge. But my wife is the one
that feeds us. She is the one that cooks. So,
man, that's such a great help because I couldn't
do it without her at all. Now, let's move on
to technical related stuff. How did it feel when
you first tried HJKL? Like, did you get used
to it fast or did you give it a couple of tries?
H and L are kind of... easy because they're like
on the extremes yep but i always confused j and
k for a very long time that didn't feel natural
at all but now it's you know i actually on my
keyboard i have a layer where i mapped hjkl to
the arrow keys so i can use the yeah someone
is still confusing yeah i don't know what they
are if you ask me which one is j and which one
is k i don't know i have no idea i just press
them And I know that it's going to go up or down,
but I don't know which one is which. Right, right.
Yeah, I have the same. It's like just second
nature, no look even. Yeah. You mentioned that
you had mapped something somewhere, right? Yeah,
like I have a layer on my keyboard where I mapped
HJKL to the arrow keys. So I can, because some
programs, they don't work with Vim motions and
you need to use the arrow keys. So this way I
can still use Vim -like navigation everywhere
pretty much. Yeah, I also have a layer. So if
I leave caps lock pressed and I press H -A -K
-L, I have my arrows there because, yeah, I don't
like using arrows. And all of your videos are
NeoVim related. Is that correct? Not all of them.
I also have like Mac terminals set up. Oh, no,
but I mean Vim, NeoVim or Vim. Like all of them
are NeoVim, right? I think, yes. So I usually
show NeoVim, but a lot of stuff is more applicable
to both, let's say. So I don't have a lot of
videos where I talk about the config and plugins.
I mostly talk about the motions and tricks and
tips and stuff like this, aside from the big
video where it's all about setting up NeoVim.
And why did you decide to go with NeoVim and
not Vim? Yeah, so after VS Code and trying it
out in VS Code, I kind of, when I felt comfortable
with the Vim motions, I kind of wanted to embrace
it. And, you know, the Primogen, he kind of sold
me on this idea of staying in the terminal the
whole time. To all of us. And everyone in the
audience as well, I think. Yeah, it just looks
so cool. So I actually then went with not NeoVim,
but regular VanillaVim. And I tried configuring
that because I felt like, okay, why NeoVim? Vim
has been around for such a long time. I didn't
see the point of NeoVim initially. So I tried
setting up just vanilla Vim, also with plugins.
And I don't know, the syntax of VimScript, it
didn't click for me. It's so weird. And every
time I started to look up something... some kind
of configuration, I came across way more content
and blog posts and videos on NeoVim than on regular
Vim. And the one person that really inspired
me to go down the NeoVim route was Death As Code.
You know the channel? Oh, the Japanese guy, I
think. Yeah. I think now these days he talks
sometimes. But he just types, right? exactly
like he's this ASMR kind of videos where he just
goes to the coffee shop and I just love it to
me he's a true craftsman and the videos are awesome
he just goes to a coffee shop with a keyboard
and a macbook sits down and spends like the next
two hours in the terminal and everything looks
super sleek and beautiful and you just hear him
type away this one right? yeah exactly and then
at the end of the video he has a beautiful app
or something ready and he was the whole time
he spent in the terminal so this is for me a
very good example of someone who is honing the
craft of programming zoning in and building something
beautiful with it and i wanted to have something
like him a workflow that looks that looks like
this And so initially I also went with his color
theme and he didn't have a video, I believe,
where he showed his full setup, but he had a
GitHub with his config. And yeah, I didn't fully
get it, to be honest. So I ran down this rabbit
hole. I copied what I could from his config and
then I did more research on the stuff that I
didn't get to work. And yeah, slowly created
my own thing. Now you touched on a good point
there. It happened to all of us. I'm not a genius.
And man, it was freaking tough. And it was a
pain in the ass. We get started with new vim
and set it up the way that I want it. You know,
because I started with lazy vim, lazy vim distro.
So there's a layer that you have to go through
to make every change that you want. You know,
as small as it seems, man, you end up in the
lazy kid. github repo searching for stuff in
the discussions page in the issues page google
ai it was really difficult for me to get used
to you know configuring new vim i know my way
around now by trial and error i didn't read the
manual like everyone recommends maybe i should
have dedicated like a month to read the whole
thing but i was not gonna do that i don't like
reading the manual It's weird. Sometimes I do,
sometimes I don't. But NewVim's manual was too
long, too complicated. And I was like, no, let's
just dock it and let's just figure it out that
way. But it was really difficult. And I went
into this rabbit hole and it took me months,
you know, to get it to a place that I liked.
How was that for you? I also tried LazyVim, AstroVim
and NVChat. And I had the same experience. So
first it was super useful to, especially AstroVim,
that was the first distro that a little bit clicked
for me and that I wanted to give a try more long
-term. It really helped me to learn some of the
sensible shortcuts because everything is already
set up, right? And most of these shortcuts and
keybinds, they actually make sense. So I still
kept a lot of them. So that's very good for learning.
But I found myself in the same kind of situation.
Every time I wanted to make a change, then instead
of having to find out how it works for NeoVim
in general, you need to find out how it works
specifically in AstroVim or LazyVim. And the
amount of resources that are available is just
much less because the user base of LazyVim is
much smaller than NeoVim in total. And I also,
I didn't find myself, at least in my personal
situation, I didn't find myself saving a lot
of time by switching to a distro because at the
end of the day, I still want to make some minor
tweaks. I still need my personal LSPs and formatters
and linters and all that stuff that I need for
my workflow. But now I need to, on top of learning
NeoVim, I also need to learn this distro. So,
I mean, I get the appeal, especially from the
stability aspect. But personally, I didn't end
up saving a lot of time with it. So these days
I prefer to have my own config. And once it is
established, you also don't need to touch it
a lot. I just make incremental tweaks here and
there at this point. And yeah, it doesn't cost
me a lot of time. Yeah. Like you said, I think
distros are pretty good to see what's out there.
I have learned so much from the LazyFM distro
that I know what I would like to have in my own
config and what I don't want to have. Because
it has thousands of key maps, right? I don't
use all of them, right? But I know the ones that
I use and it helps to grab inspiration. I haven't
taken the step yet to go with my Kickstart config
from scratch, you know? I will eventually, but
I know that it's going to take time and I just
don't want to invest it because it's working
at the time for me. And I'm like, whatever. What
do you use as a base? Kickstart then. That's
your base for your config. Okay. How easy it
is like to set up LSP and all that stuff. Is
it simple? Did you find it complicated? Well,
the good thing is it is already set up pretty
much. So you can still customize it and bring
your own plugins and stuff like this. But the
hard part that is pretty much the same in all
distros, like we all have LSP, right? Most sane
NeoVim users have LSP. And the setup is not that
different. There's no unique LSP configuration.
I mean, the server configuration, the specific
ones might differ. But overall, it's the same
Mason and Vim LSP config, the same kind of plugins.
And I would rather have someone figure this out
for me than figuring... this kind of more low
level stuff out all by myself and yeah i find
kickstart really strikes a great balance there
okay awesome so someone's starting would you
recommend then distro or no distro what would
you say to them i would say try both uh probably
go with kickstart to build your own config but
try lazy vim or something like that at the beginning
just to see what is out there like see all the
possibilities that modern NeoVim config can offer.
And then you will probably find that it's too
much. And at that point, come to Kickstart and
build on top of that. Okay, okay. Do you think
that there's a point where dealing with all these,
you know, configurations, NeoVim, because it
takes a lot of your time, you know, do you think
it becomes overkill at some point? Hmm. That's
a great question. I do have maybe a bit of a
hot take on this. I believe that you shouldn't
overinvest time in learning NeoVim. But if you
care about programming or DevOps or whatever
it is that you're doing, I think you're networking,
right? Networking and infrastructure related.
Yeah, more on that side. So if you care about
whatever it is that you're doing on a computer
that is technical, if you care about that as
a craft, then definitely overspend and overinvest
the time in NeoVim. And it might sound a little
bit contradictory, but I can explain. So I believe
that in the West, and especially in the United
States, we have this kind of min -maxing mentality.
where we try to get the most output out of something
with the minimum amount of effort. And this works.
And I think if you're chasing quick wins, that's
fine. But it's also the enemy of any true mastery
in a subject. And if I'm spending the next 30
years of my life in this field and working with
a computer, I want to make sure that I learn
the tools and I want to make sure that I learn
how to use it properly. You know, like a carpenter
who learns a chisel and all these tools, you
know? Basically, like a true craftsman, I want
to make sure that I use a computer. And this
kind of mastery mentality is not about chasing
quick wins. It's just about doing it for its
own sake and wanting to do it properly for its
own sake without any... You know, NeoVim is not
going to give you a better job instantly or make
you a 10x developer. I think there's probably
like a correlation, but not a causal relationship.
You can learn NeoVim and suck at coding, you
know? But yeah, if you care about programming
or whatever it is as a craft, then I believe
it's definitely worth investing a lot of time
into it. I see this also in other fields, like
in fitness, for example. especially in fitness
people chase this what's the diet or what's the
routine that I can do to lose weight for the
next summer you know what's the pill that I need
to take or now with vibe coding like how can
I build this amazing SaaS product without even
knowing what a client or server is and I don't
know I mean this is fine but at the end of the
day I want to live a good and fulfilling life
and I believe that involves not just caring about
outcomes, you also need to care about the process
and respecting the craft. I don't know, that
sounds maybe a bit philosophical at this point,
but yeah, so I think if this resonates and if
people also believe that programming is a craft,
then I definitely believe spend a lot of time
on Neovim and own the craft to really master
computers. I agree. And that's why I haven't
installed one of these new tools out there like
cursor and all of those tools that basically
create an application. from scratch. You don't
know what the hell is going on. You just know
that it works. I like, you know, taking stuff.
I like watching a course. When I was doing networking
a lot, I watched thousands of courses, thousands
of videos, and I learned it. And now I can implement
it, you know, same with Linux, let's say, right?
I just like knowing what I'm doing and then be
able to do it. Yeah, I go and look at my notes.
I use AI as a tool when I, you know, when I need
to do it. But yeah, I like learning stuff in
depth. That's why I haven't taken programming
seriously. Because I don't want to do it in a
month. If I'm going to commit to it, it's going
to take me years. And I don't want to get started.
It's like, man. I have a lot of stuff going on
right now. You know, the channel. This channel
takes most of my time. My day job, all that stuff.
I'm learning other things. Zoom scrolling, you
know, because social media is a big part now.
And I hate it, but it is, you know. But yeah,
I like learning stuff in depth as well. I just
don't want to reach the surface. And yeah. imposter
syndrome that's that's tough man that's tough
even in the stuff that i know like networking
i feel like an imposter i don't know i just don't
feel enough have you ever experienced that you
ever experienced it like maybe i don't know too
much because at the beginning i remember i thought
man i got a certification first CCNA is a Cisco
certification. And I was like, damn, I'm the
king. I know it all. But then I realized that
I didn't know shit. I know nothing. I didn't
know about Linux. I didn't know about cloud.
I didn't know about programming, scripting, nothing.
I was like, man, I know nothing. And it was like,
and it has been like that ever since. Then you
see other people and you're like, man, those
guys are geniuses, right? Am I an imposter? Have
you ever felt that? Definitely, yeah. I think
it's very typical in tech because it's such a
broad field. It's moving so fast. Yeah, you know
the Dunning -Kruger effect? The what? The Dunning
-Kruger effect. I think I have seen it. Is it
the one that Prime shows in his videos? I don't
know. I've heard it, I think. It basically says
that the less you know about the subject, the
more confident you feel initially. You learned
two points about any subject and then you feel
massively confident that you know everything.
But then when you learn a little bit more, then
you realize that you don't know anything about
the subject. And then slowly over time, over
a long process, they call it the slope of enlightenment
in this theory. Oh, this one. Hold on. You actually
start developing mastery. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
At the beginning of the peak of ignorance. Yeah.
Yeah. So, yeah, I think I've been here learning.
And the more you see other people, the more you
realize that the less, you know, and it's like,
man, so what? It's. Yeah. Yeah, I have it a lot,
especially in data science, because a lot of
people in the field and coworkers and stuff,
they have PhDs in astrophysics and quantitative
fields, you know, and they're very deep into
the math of it. And I'm not that. And that's
also part of the reason why I feel much more
home in these infrastructure topics. That's why
I'm in MLOps ultimately. I find this is much
more natural for me to learn and pick up. And
yeah, but definitely imposter syndrome is a big
thing because also you can't know everything.
I mean, you can't be this math genius in machine
learning models and at the same time be a top
-notch engineer and then also be very good at
communicating and all this stuff that's required
for the job, you know? Like everybody has, I
wouldn't want to say deficiencies, You can't
know it all unless you have 20 years of experience,
maybe. Yeah, that's the thing, experience. I
also started really late in life. You know, I
started, you know, with this IT related stuff,
you know, like 2018. I always liked computers,
you know, but I started really late in life.
There's people that start at the age of seven,
eight, ten, and they continue their whole life.
And they study that. I didn't finish college
when I was younger because I just did. I just
drank and I just did crazy stuff. I just wasted
a lot of time. So I'm starting right now, 38
years old. So I guess comparing is a bad part
of it. You know, we all have to be in our own
journey at our own pace. I cannot compare myself
to Primogen or TJ. Man, those guys are really
smart and they have been doing this for a long
time. so that affects as well comparing ourselves
to others and that that's a bad thing i guess
i think it's also good to be a multi -dimensional
person and have experience in different fields
you know the concept of a t -shaped person nope
i don't i think it was was it steve jobs who
came up with this or At least he was a T -shaped
person. So the idea is that T -shape is because
you have knowledge in a variety of topics. And
Steve Jobs was also known for, I think he did,
what was it, calligraphy or something? He was
in some kind of artsy subject. But then there's
one area where you go deep. So in your case,
you did different things and then you went deep
into computers. And I think that's beautiful.
you're only in one area for all your life and
you never look outside of that then the risk
is that you become a very one -dimensional person
who can only talk about one subject and nothing
else you know yeah that's a good point Most of
my stuff is IT related. Now I do video. I didn't
know anything about video. I like learning about
all this stuff, YouTube and all that. So that
has taught me a lot as well. But most of my stuff
is IT related. My wife is really history related
and philosophy related. I need to read more,
basically, because she reads books. I don't read
books. I read documentation. That's my literature.
But yeah. i i yeah that that's a good point and
um yeah okay now how has it been living in um
in other country that is not your country like
how do you feel yeah it's always a bit weird
you know because uh initially i didn't speak
the language actually in the netherlands i never
really properly learned the language even though
it's close to german but their level of english
is so high in the netherlands that oh that you
didn't feel a difference yeah like even like
random people the cashier at the supermarket
like she would be fluent in english better than
me so and immediately switch i actually tried
to learn dutch but every time i struggled people
would immediately respond in english and i mean
that's of course amazing and super friendly but
it makes it harder for me to pick up the local
language and In Spain, it was not like that.
Yeah. How is the accent? Because people from
Spain, they don't like people from the United
States, I think. Don't quote me on this. I have
no idea. But their accent in English is way tougher
and they don't like speaking English. Is that
right or no? I guess it really depends. Spain
is also very multicultural and there's a lot
of regional differences. And I really know only...
the Catalonia region and the Balearic Islands.
I haven't really had a lot of touchpoints with
the rest of Spain. And even Catalonia region,
you could say, a lot of people think it's its
own country, so there's a big, you know, controversy
or debate around that. How has it been with the
language? Because what do they speak there? Spanish,
right? Yeah, Catalan is the first language, and
then also... also Spanish oh Catalan god damn
that's even more I don't know because I have
heard Catalan in the movies it sounds like Spanish
but it's not Spanish right so yeah to me I mean
people are going to hate me for this but to me
it sounds like French spoken with a Spanish it's
really difficult I don't understand it I speak
Spanish that's my main language but when I watch
a movie and it's in Catalan it's like what the
What the hell are they talking about? I don't
get it. It's very different. Speaking Spanish,
yeah. So you have to learn Catalan in Spanish
or what? So in the big cities in Barcelona, basically
Catalan is very rarely spoken. It's more outside
in the smaller towns because Barcelona is a very
international city. A lot of people don't even
speak any of the local languages. They only speak
English, a lot of expats. You can get by, but
personally, I also like learning the local language,
at least Spanish. I'm not so keen on Catalan,
but just because it's very limited in the number
of people who only speak Catalan. I've never
met anyone who only speaks Catalan and not Castilian
Spanish. So if I learn Castilian Spanish, I can
talk to basically everyone in Catalonia and then
also... everyone in Latin America and the rest
of Spain so and how's your Spanish now getting
worse it used to be it used to be better when
I did my master's here because I did that in
Spanish and it it was much better back then because
I used it on a daily basis and these days because
at work I only speak English and then at home
I speak German And I do have a few friends that
I speak Spanish with, but I'm losing more and
more touch points with the language. So I'm losing
more and more the practice. And what about English?
Because German is your first language, right?
So you know three languages, basically German,
English and Spanish. And how has the English
or how was the English? Why did you learn English?
Is it common in Germany? I think the average
level of English in Germany is quite good. I
think most people can get by in English. At least
people who went to university or did their high
school finished. I think they can get by in English.
So it's generally okay, but it was for me never
on a level where I could have this kind of conversation.
And I really wanted to improve on that because
I felt limited by that. My thinking was that
if I don't speak English, then I will... I can
only work and I can only be in Germany. And that
was also a motivation why I went to the Netherlands,
because the courses were completely in English.
And I mean, there are programs that are taught
in English also in Germany. But then I knew that,
okay, I will only speak or only hear English
during the lectures. But once the lecture is
over, I'm going to be surrounded only by German
people. So I will not get the chance to actually
improve it very much. Okay. Okay. Interesting.
And how old are you, by the way, Hendrik? I'm
an early 90s kid. So I'm 32 at this point. 32?
Okay. 32. Okay. I'm 30, 38. We're older than
Silvan for sure. Yeah. And you mentioned note
-taking as well. And you mentioned Obsidian,
right? Yeah. Okay. Is there a reason why you
still use Obsidian and haven't fully migrated
into NeoVim? Because I did use Obsidian as well,
but I basically implemented all of the features
that I needed from Obsidian and NeoVim, and now
I only use NeoVim. Like, what's your... Excuse.
Well, no. Why do you like using Obsidian, basically?
Yeah, so I do use Vim motions in Obsidian. The
main reason I'm not using it in NeoVim, and sometimes
I actually do. Sometimes I open my vault in NeoVim.
It makes it much easier to find nodes, but I
find the readability in Obsidian quite good.
So it has much better spacing and this kind of
stuff. And even the Markdown formatting plugins
in NeoVim, I find the readability overall is
much worse. And a lot of times I just need, like
now for example, I have my Obsidian behind this
MacBook screen and I can see my notes and it's
just more readable for me. Yeah, and it's smoother
to scroll. That's one thing that I did like about
it. Because you can scroll with the mouse and
it's smoother. But something that I didn't like
is the switching of the apps because I spend
most of the day in the terminal. Moving to Obsidian,
it was like, oh man. I had BIM motions enabled,
right? So I could navigate with BIM motions,
but I didn't have all of the ones that I needed,
like surround. Like if I wanted to surround something,
I couldn't do it. Or if I wanted to do, you know,
a little bit more complicated stuff, I couldn't
do it. I did go through the, because there's
a way to use your BIM RC file, I think it's called,
right? So I did modify it a lot and I implemented
a lot of key maps like. gh to go to the beginning
of the line or gl to go to the end but it was
not enough and i had to play a lot of tricks
so i just decided yeah but something that made
a huge difference for me you know is folds and
that's the way that i navigate files right now
so i'm just gonna quickly show to my screen right
now let me just open a different file because
like you said if i have everything unfolded right
I love how your cursor looks. Oh, yeah. It's
the ghosty thing that they implemented. Oh, that's
so cool. Yeah, it's cool. I created a video about
it. So it helps seeing where the cursor is, right?
That alone is a reason to switch to ghosty. Yeah.
It has two colors. It has like orangey. When
it lands somewhere, there's like an orange around
it. looks cool but i get it what you said if
i would navigate files this way it's a pain it's
horrible i don't like it but ever since i implemented
folds i don't know i have navigated files this
way and um it's it's not complicated yeah it's
clean but folds were like a huge part for me,
right? So I do level two or level two and level
three. If I want to see level two and level three
and jump to a specific section. So I think that
that's one of the things that didn't make me
miss Obsidian. Then I tried to implement this
folding feature in Obsidian, I think, and I couldn't.
And I was like, oh, I'm faster in Nuvem than
in Obsidian. So I just stick to Nuvem. and it's
been good so far you know do you take a lot of
notes yeah definitely i try to build a second
brain oh yeah do you use the saddle casting method
i have one sub directory for settle custom but
i find it a bit challenging you know i i do have
kind of an inbox directory which is my fleeting
notes so it's like um a daily note with the current
date and this is kind of where i populate the
notes that that i want to take throughout the
day and then periodically whenever i have some
time and the backlog of these daily notes gets
too too big then i kind of rearrange them and
i think okay what do i want to capture from them
so i either delete them or i convert them into
more permanent notes or like these atomic notes
but i'm having a hard time implementing this
linking between notes i do it a little bit but
yeah how do you oh what do you think about this
does it work for you yeah for that i use um a
plugin called marksman well you install it through
mason so it's not a plugin it's just a package
you know but it's an lsb it's called marksman
i have a section here testing marksman links
so i have links here and i use blink so it helps
me auto complete um a note right so if i do gd
here it's gonna jump to this note what happened
here oh there's a swap file let me see oh swap
file yeah favorite uh yeah so i i go back with
control o right since it adds it to the jump
list when i jump to the other file or control
i to go back usual jump list stuff right so Like
here, for example, GD as well. It's going to
take me to this file, to this specific heading.
I can go back with Control -O. And Blink is really
useful because it helps me autocomplete, right?
So if I type something in here, let's say XCPNG,
right? That's the name of the note. Notice that
it found the note. I can autocomplete it and
I can autocomplete a heading, right? I don't
know why. What can I type here? There's the headings
for this XCPNG file, right? So if I want to add
this USB pass -through, for example, it takes
a little while there. It auto -completed it.
Now the link is there, and I can GD. It's going
to take me to it. Control -Alt to go back. It's
not perfect, but it works. I tried the settle
casting method, man. I even purchased a course
on Udemy about the settle casting method. And
I was like, okay, I'm going to get it this time.
I didn't get it. I watched the course and I was
even more confused than when I started. It was
like, I don't understand it. The problem is that
I have really long notes, right? I create really
long files. And I don't know if the settle casting
works that way. Because if I open this one, Kubernetes
.md, right? Just notice how many headings. It's
a huge file. It has thousands of lines, 14 ,000
lines, right? So how do I, like, segregate this
into smaller nodes? How will it make sense? How
will I connect? Now, I just, and this is the
way that all my nodes are. I have a Docker swarm
file in which I, you know, write down all of
the Docker swarm information. I don't know how
to translate that into SettleCasten. So I don't
know if SettleCasten is for everyone. I'm not
sure. Maybe I just don't understand it. Maybe
there's a way of doing it better. I have no idea.
You have any thoughts there? I mean, at the end
of the day, these are just ideas and concepts,
right? they don't have to work for everyone they
work maybe for a specific person very well the
creator and then maybe they have gotten some
following and it worked well for other people
but different brains work in different ways so
i think it's perfectly fine to come up with your
own systems right i mean this is what new vim
and configuring it is all about at the end of
the day right yeah makes sense but i did give
it a try i watched videos i didn't understand
it and i was like no It's not for me, I guess.
Maybe in the future, once I know how to do it,
or if someone tech -related shows me how to do
it properly, I'll give it a chance. But it didn't
make sense for me at all. Have you tried any
of the other new IDEs, like the AI -related ones?
Recently, I've tried Cloud Code, if you can consider
that an IDE. I mean, it's just a terminal CLI
tool. I haven't tried it, but I'm interested
in trying it. Share with us a bit more. It's
pretty good. I haven't tried Cursor or Lovable
or something like that, but Cloud Code is amazing,
especially with NeoVim and Tmux. For me, this
is the best AI workflow I've seen so far. I've
also used Avante before, the NeoVim plugin, which
is quite cool. I didn't use it. You didn't like
it? I didn't use it. I never installed it. The
only one that I installed was Copilot. And it's
not that the plugin was bad. It was good. Just
Copilot itself, the Microsoft tool or whoever
owns it was crap. And I was like, no, I don't
like this. I uninstalled it and moved on. But
I never tried another one. What about the set
OpenCode? OpenCode is that the one by one of
the Primogen guys? by one of the guys in the
Primogen gang. Is that the one? It's a CLI tool
or something? I'm not sure. Is that the one?
I think he had the creator on the show the other
day. Oh. Or something like that. I haven't tried
the tool, but it looks interesting as well. Anyway,
so far, for me, Cloud Code is the best, especially
combined with Neovim and Tmux. Because it's just
a CLI tool that you can spin up in a Tmux pane.
okay it doesn't disrupt my near vim workflow
at all pretty much and the cool thing about it
is that it has like a planning mode and it has
access to your entire code base and also like
tools that can do research and other things and
it has even like a configuration file it has
like a global configuration file and then you
can have inside of your repos specific configuration
files that are just for this repo so you can
give like basically a system prompt in these
configuration files how you want it to behave
like should it not use certain tools should it
i don't know enforce a certain code style that
you have or or whatever and what's the scope
that it has like okay so i go to a path right
to to the path of the project and i open uh clot
code in that path so it's just going to have
access to To that directory and all the subdirectories
inside. Does it have access to stuff above? Can
I go to my root directory and all that stuff?
I think by default, not. Probably you can tell
it that because you can also inside of Cloud
Code, you can run any bash command. So you could
also do a cd dot dot. And I guess then it would
have access to more directories. But I think
by default, it will be limited. It can run bash
commands to find stuff. So you can also tell
it to run bash commands. And this is also quite
cool. You have this planning mode where you can
kind of discuss your idea. And I say, for example,
well, I'm thinking of implementing a class that
does this and this. Can you give me some feedback
on how this would fit into the overall code base?
And then you can kind of go back and forth and
come up with a good design and a plan. And then...
it goes ahead step by step and at each step it
gives you like a git diff kind of view the lines
it would take out the lines it would add and
then you can further refine that as well you
can say okay just go ahead or you can say no
i don't like this and then you can say what it
should improve and like this you can iterate
back and forth and come up with a pretty good
overall design and then because it can run any
bash command it uses grab a lot to find files
and stuff like this And then it can also run
your tests. And when a test fails, it immediately
sees the output and then can reiterate on that
and make the improvements in your code base.
It's still, sometimes I like it, especially for
the planning mode and the brainstorming stuff.
But sometimes it can also be a bit hands -off
if you rely on it too much. But overall, I really
like the integration that it can just be in a
Tmux pane. It works really well with this. neovim
tmux kind of workflow and it's not overly integrated
into into the ide oh i'm concerned that it's
gonna touch other files that it's not supposed
to right but uh has that happened to you or can
it touch files outside the project because i'm
like what if a file is not tracked i'm not gonna
know if it touched it or not because if it's
in the project i can see okay it modified this
because i can When I'm about to commit and lasing
it, I can see what changed and everything. But
what if it goes outside of the directory where
you started it in and it modifies stuff out somewhere?
Do you know if that's a problem or not? I have
no idea. I guess it depends on how you use it.
Because in theory, it always tells you what it's
going to do and you need to accept each change.
But there's also an auto -accept mode. Oh. So
you could do the auto accept mode and just say,
okay, do whatever you want, basically. But then,
you know, also the damage is on you in this case.
Okay. Okay. But it's controlled. You can, you
can accept what it's about to do. And okay. Okay.
Yeah. It gets wild. I don't want to pay too much
because Rumen pays like $200 for this thing.
And I'm like, hell no. If I. Go to my wife and
tell her, hey, I'm going to pay like $200. She's
going to be like, what the hell are you talking?
And I don't want to spend that money on that.
How much do you pay for it? Is the $20, do they
have a $20 plan? I don't have any cloud subscription.
It is provided by work. Oh, and it's unlimited?
Pretty much, yeah. I think it's rate limited,
actually. But I only ran into this a couple of
times. Okay. That's a good way to test it if
it's provided at your work company. Okay. There's
also a command. Also, what is cool, I forgot
about this. One thing that's cool about Cloud
Code is that it even has a Vim mode. So when
you're typing your prompt, you can even edit
this with Vim motions. And there's another command
that is cost, and then you can see exactly what
you spent, the exact dollar amount of your API
consumption. And to be honest, I think it's a
bit crazy. So for 10 minutes of serious usage,
I think I paid around 2 euros 50, which is not
a little. That's a month of chat -to -PC. Yeah.
No, 2 euros 50. oh oh you're right yeah yeah
two euros okay it's like 20 20 yeah yeah yeah
but still but still for 10 minutes of use it's
quite yeah so in a day you go over 20 for sure
if you spend the whole day coding yeah uh i don't
like that too much it's expensive then it's definitely
expensive yeah okay okay i don't know i'll probably
give it a try in stuff that i know In and out,
like my .files. I know that I have to rearrange
a lot of stuff. So any decisions that it's about
to make, I can be like, okay, I like that idea.
Yeah, good, good, implement it. If it's something
that I don't know at all and it's going to create
it from scratch, I don't see the real benefit
unless I want to have a prototype for something.
I need to come up with something fast, quick,
and I don't care about the code too much. It's
fine. But I know my .files, you know. So it could
help me detect bugs easily, I think, in minor
stuff like that, you know, because it has access
to the context. So I do see the use case in that
scenario, but we'll see. Now, have you thought
about or have you heard about Emacs? Have you
used Emacs? Have you ever thought about using
it? Oh, Emacs. I have not used it. I'm kind of
curious, but I'm also a bit afraid of the Emacs
pinky. I'm afraid that it's going to be less
ergonomic than Vim. And this is the main deterrent
for me. But also, you know, I mean, I said that
I really appreciate craftsmanship and that you
should definitely overinvest into NeoVim when
you do feel that, when you also appreciate craftsmanship.
But I also don't feel like picking up... another
complex tool from scratch at this point because
i mean i've already spent so much time with the
new m config it's a very solid tool it gets the
job done and the workflow is pretty good so i
don't know at this point i have also other things
on my plate yeah that's your bug you're afraid
i'm afraid i'm afraid of trying emacs because
i know that it's gonna be a month all in and
it's gonna take too much of my time because I'm
not going to come up with just a simple config.
I will want to configure it the way that I want
it. And it's just going to absorb me. Not a month,
maybe even more. And I'm just like, no. It happened
to me with Kanata, which is a keyboard mapper.
I was like, I will try Kanata someday. I decided
to try it, but I didn't want to try it because
I knew that it was going to take time. It took
time. It took a lot of time. Trial, error, trying
things. Man. It did take over a month and it
was, I don't enjoy that process, you know, of
going into a new tool that you know that is going
to be difficult. It's way too much work. Especially
if the outlook is that it could just replace
your current workflow, but it doesn't refine
it further. Maybe in the very long run, maybe
it's better, but then I don't think it looks
very promising because Vim is already quite good.
It's already very efficient. And you know how
the joke goes, right? Emacs is not just an editor,
it's a whole operating system. So that's actually
scary for me. Yeah, I know for sure that I would
have my email there and I would stay the whole
day inside Emacs and my calendar because I do
see the appeal, right? If in my tool that looks
like a terminal, even though it's not a terminal,
it's its own tool, I can have my email, my calendar.
Edit my files, my blog posts, my notes. Man,
it's heaven. You will. Yeah, I will be there
the whole day. I can guarantee you that. But
the cost of learning it and configuring it is
too much that I'm like, no, I'm not doing that
at the moment. And talking about that, what was
I going to talk about? Hold on. I was going to
ask you. Oh, yep, yep. Talking about the same
related topic. I see you use macOS in your videos.
Is that right? Yeah. Okay. Have you ever thought
about switching to Linux or have you switched
to Linux or do you use Linux? I actually have
the Linux installed on a USB stick. I can, whenever
I need to, like I have my most important software
installed there, like a password manager and
access to my cloud and stuff like this. So whenever
I need to, I just need to have the stick and
the machine available where I can plug it in
and then have access to my most important documents
and everything I need. But I don't use it for
work on a daily basis. And the reason for that
is that at work, everyone on my team has a MacBook
and the company provides a MacBook. And if I
can choose on a hardware basis between a MacBook
and a ThinkPad, then I'm definitely going to
go for the MacBook. And I do love Linux, though.
And I think it's the best operating system. But
the combination of having really solid hardware
and an operating system that is Unix -based,
that is a very strong factor for me for going
for Mac. Okay. And at this point in time, if
you were to buy a laptop, right? It happened
to me. I was given a MacBook at the previous
job I had, and I used it for like six years.
I hated macOS at the beginning because it's like
Windows. It's pretty, you know, macOS -y and
the apps. And why have I Finder? I don't like
Finder at all. But then I customized it, right?
And now my macOS doesn't even look like macOS,
doesn't act like macOS. macOS is just... a base
where I install all the stuff that I want, and
it allows me to do what I want. I don't have
any limitations in macOS. I have my bar at the
top the way that I want it, right? So if I switch
here, this doesn't look like macOS, right? I
have a window manager, and it doesn't get in
the way. Once, of course, you go through the
process of configuring it and setting it to your
liking, it's just... You know, something that
you can work on. macOS for me is just, I don't
like macOS. I like the ability and the hardware
that it gives and that it allows me to do what
I want to do. Yeah, the Apple logo is the only
thing that tells that it's macOS, right? Yeah,
I mean, if you spend most of your time in the
terminal anyway... It doesn't matter if you're
running Ghost on Linux or on macOS. If that's
your main app, I think the difference is not
going to be that huge. And I also spend most
of my time in the terminal or the browser. Maybe
Obsidian, sometimes DaVinci Resolve, but that's
about it. And I don't think the experience at
the end of the day would be super different if
I was running Linux. Yeah. What would you buy
if you were at this point in time? You needed
to buy a computer. Would you go with a Mac or
would you go with something and start with Linux?
Oh, to be honest, I have no idea what's out there.
I haven't done any research lately. I think I
would go with a Mac, but mostly because these
days I'm also into making videos. Yeah. And I
find that especially there, you can't have a
fully keyboard centric workflow and working with
a trackpad and having this big trackpad available.
That is definitely a benefit for non -coding
tasks. So I would definitely consider a MacBook,
but also they have gone up in prices quite a
bit. So I would need to do some digging there.
Yeah, I don't know if they will keep going up
with... What is it? all of the stuff that is
going on in the US right now. And integration,
that's another thing like Roman said in the comments,
integration with the iPhone. This is my camera
right now, the iPhone. For a quality to look
the way that it looks right now, I would need
to purchase like a pretty expensive camera, right?
So no, I'm just using my iPhone. The operating
system detects it as a camera. I can use it,
right? I don't need to buy a dedicated camera.
The ecosystem, I like it a lot. I have the watch
as well. The keyboard, I have a different keyboard,
but it's comfortable. I do like the ecosystem.
And for video editing, it's way simpler, man.
I just, DaVinci works great. OBS works great
as well. This is where I do all the stuff. If
I wouldn't be doing video related stuff, I would
keep Linux. Definitely. A better chance. Definitely.
I installed Arch a few days ago. I have not even
logged into Arch because my video editing and
all that process happens here in macOS, all the
different applications that I use, the phone.
So if I wouldn't be doing video stuff, I would
definitely use Linux. I don't know. I just got
used to the workflow in macOS, I guess. How was
your experience with Arch? Because I did a poll
on my channel the other day asking people which
OS they're using. And I split Arch from Linux
and I gave Arch its own category. And surprisingly,
34 % voted that they're using Arch. And I was
a bit surprised by that. I mean, it could be
a bit of a sampling bias because maybe Arch users
are more vocal about the operating system that
they're using. So probably all the Arch users
responded there. But also, I don't know, maybe
actually a third of my audience are using Arch.
So I'm definitely super curious to explore that.
So how was your experience? Installation, they
tell you to install Arch from scratch, right?
Don't use Arch install because there's a script
that shows you like a graphical interface in
which you select what packages you want to install
and the configuration options. That's for noobs.
They say, I don't care. That's what I went with.
But still, it's confusing because there's a lot
of different options. Linux is really flexible.
So coming from macOS, it's like, okay, so I had
like 20 different options on the screen at a
time. I had to choose Hyperland, Sway. I don't
know if it was a window manager and the other
one said, I don't know. It was really confusing.
I didn't know which one to go with. Everyone
in the videos and if you search in YouTube, Hyperland
is everywhere. So I went with Hyperland. I chose,
in theory, I didn't choose the right login screen.
They say that it's not compatible with the window
manager that I chose. It was confusing, to be
honest with you. So I want to try Omarki, the
one by DHH. And he comes from macOS. He has a
lot of sensibilities, we could say, like a lot
of macOS user sensibilities. I don't care about
Arch install too much and installer Arch from
scratch. I just want to have something that works.
And I don't... I don't think I'm going to use
that installation that I did. It works, but I
don't want to maintain it. I'm not going to learn
anything from maintaining an Arch configuration.
I already know all this stuff, right? So the
idea is that by installing Arch from scratch,
you learn, but you're just copying and pasting
commands from a guy on the internet, right? What
are you really learning? If you know nothing,
maybe you can learn something, but you already
know your stuff. I know my stuff, so it's not
going to be useful for me at all. Maybe someone
starting, I guess, could be kind of useful to
learn the Linux basics by installing Arch. But
I've installed Linux on servers way many times.
I know how to do a lot of stuff in Linux, so
it depends on where you're at. At this point
in my life, for me personally, Omarky is the
one that I want to try. I don't want to make
all the decisions, invest all this time, learn.
No, I just want someone that knows to do it for
me and I just go ahead and use it. But that's
the one that I want to give it a try. Have you
heard about it or have you watched any videos
about Omarky? I've seen it in thumbnails, but
I haven't clicked on the videos yet. So is it
kind of like an arch? It's an Arch distro. Arch.
I don't know what it is. I don't know what the
Arch purists think it is. Because to me, it's
a distro. It's just a Linux distro. I'm not completely
sure if it's... But yeah, it gives you everything.
You install it, gives you the login screen, an
application launcher, DHH. I watched a video
yesterday. He even... um offered five thousand
dollars if someone could submit a pr to chromium
so you could change the chrome colors and um
when you change your theme in omarkey and that
seems that is going to be coming as well so it
allows you to do a lot of stuff if you change
your theme it changes everywhere omar omachi
omarkey omachi We're going to say it all the
different ways. We're going to get one right.
Omarchi, Omachi, Omarchy. I like Omachi. Yeah?
Yeah, let's go with that. But yeah, it seems
that it's a distro. Looks cool. And that's what
I want at this point in life. I don't want to
figure it out. Maybe it's the same as with Neovim
distros. You know, you start with something where...
A lot of stuff comes out of the box. You learn
a lot. You see what it is capable of. And then
you take what you like at some point and you
start your own config. And then, yeah, you discard
what you don't need and you keep what you like
and then build on top of that. Yeah, yeah. What
are your thoughts on the other two operating
systems? Do you like macOS or you just use it
because you have to use it? macOS is cool overall.
I think the default window management is atrocious.
It couldn't be worse, honestly. But there are
ways around it. It is still... I prefer it much
over Windows, though. I think the last great
Windows was XP. Yeah, I grew up with that, so
I'm a bit biased. But I felt that was a solid
OS, honestly. These days, at least Mac OS is
sort of clean. It doesn't feel as bloated as
Windows. But I also haven't spent a lot of time
with the latest Windows versions. Windows 7 was
good. XP and Windows 7. They felt stable, right?
Now, you go to Windows and you have some Windows
that look like... Windows 7, they look like really
old Windows stuff and it's not consistent. It's,
I don't know. I feel Windows low as well because
I'm using a Windows computer at work right now.
Man, I don't like it. And it's a good computer.
It's a pretty decent, powerful computer, but...
No. No. Not Windows. It doesn't feel the same
way. No, it doesn't. What do you use for Window
Manager in macOS, by the way? I just use Karabiner.
And there's a small tool called Rectangle. Oh,
Rectangle. Yeah, it's a very simple utility.
And I combined that with Karabiner. So there's
rectangle commands that you can run from terminal.
And using Karabiner, you can run terminal commands
that you can trigger with a shortcut. So basically,
I have in Karabiner different layers. If you
want to show your screen, that's fine. I don't
know if you want to or you'd rather not. Yeah,
maybe we can do that. Do you need to point me
to my screen? Yep, I'll switch to your screen.
There. Okay. Let's see, actually. I think in
one video I showed it and I had like a screenshot
or something of... my layout oh yeah here okay
maybe you can zoom in a bit no i can see it there
looks quite good okay that's better yes so that's
kind of my setup so i have the tab key as a hyper
key and then i can pair that with either e or
expose or w for window and so expose basically
means that then the home row and the row below
it they become certain apps so tab e and then
what is it h will take me to finder and then
j is grave and k is western so basically the
the apps that i use most they are on the easiest
to reach keys and also tab e and w they're also
very convenient to reach and then on w i have
different window positions oh okay so basically
this uses rectangle under the hood and i can
position the window in in all these different
ways oh i see yeah so that's essentially my my
kind of workflow and has been working quite quite
well so far i i really don't like i switched
to our screen by the way it's back to our screen
cool i really don't like having to think about
window management a lot and dragging and dropping
drag and drop or resizing or this kind of stuff
i just want to press one key and just see exactly
what i want to see and and not think about it
too much yeah i was i did something similar with
carabiner in the in the past to switch to my
different apps my dog is barking outside i don't
know if you can hear it or not but yeah yeah
a little bit When I talk, he barks. God damn
it. But I'll leave it there. Now, I don't like,
because I see that people have workspaces, right?
So in workspace one, I want to keep this, this,
this, this application. In workspace two, all
of these other applications. Workspace three,
all of the, it doesn't make sense at all. I keep
all of them in the default desktop or the default
workspace, and I just switch to them, right?
Same. Yep. because it doesn't make too much sense
to, you know, to move them to different workspaces.
Let's just keep all of them in the same workspace,
switch to them with my keyboard, and that's it.
My terminal is the only one that is in a different
workspace right now, right? So if I come here,
this is on desk two on the macOS desk two. If
you look here above. How can I bring it here?
That's two. All of the other ones are in desk
one, right? Everything. So that is the only one
that I move because of the background. I like
the blurred background, but the rest of them,
browser and all of it is on the desktop one.
So have you thought about using a window manager
like Yabai or Aerospace so that... You could
achieve what I'm talking about here. Not worry
about where the apps live, have all of them in
the same space, but let the window manager manage
your windows. I always like them this size, so
that's what I use it for, basically, so that
it puts the application of a specific size on
the screen. Right, right. Well, I tried Yabai
and Amethyst, I think it's called. But to me,
the concept of window tiling never made sense.
Especially because I have a widescreen monitor,
and then it just snaps it to the left half of
the screen. And this is very uncomfortable for
me. I want it to be in the center. And only if
I need to switch or see two apps side by side,
that's actually the only time I make full use
of the widescreen monitor. regret a little bit
buying it because i make so little use of the
screen real estate i think a normal 16 by 9 monitor
would be much better honestly because 90 of the
time i just have the main app on full screen
and i just want to switch between apps and when
i when i need to go to a different app i just
press a button and the next app becomes full
screen and that's it and i don't really like
having you know three apps open and having them
tiled and then yeah you can't really see what
you want to see i can see the the merit in that
i can see that for some workflows it makes sense
but for me it didn't click yeah it's too much
organizing it you waste a lot of time it defeats
the purpose for me tiles are a mistake as well
tiles are the exception right if i need to do
something that requires me to use tiles i'll
do it Like if you're a web developer and you
need to code and see what's happening on the
right on your browser, that's an exception. That's
a case in which you could use tiles. But other
than that, why go through the pain of having
tiles, organizing them, moving them? No, it doesn't
make sense. It's just a waste of time. That's
my hot take. And yeah, tiles are a mistake, man.
They are useful, but... they're an exception
they're useful sometimes and even in that case
you don't really need tiles you just need to
have rectangle can do that you just have two
apps half yeah exactly one one window cover the
left half and the other window cover the right
half and that's pretty much the same at that
point yeah i use the window manager in a really
basic way just put the app on the screen occupy
most of the space but i i also have the other
application on the side, right here, Skitty Notes.
So you could use Yabai. Since your monitor is
really big, you could use Yabai. This is the
padding. On the right side, I have the padding.
So you could configure a huge padding on the
right, and you could configure a huge padding
on the left of your monitor, right? So here,
a padding here, and a padding here on the right
in Yabai. And you could have your application
centered on the screen at all times. And yeah,
it's something that you can give a try as well.
Definitely. I look into it. Yeah. And moving
on to other topics, non -related stuff. Oh, by
the way, I just want to thank the CEO, which
is Web2Tree. I have sponsorships. Well, not sponsorships,
YouTube members, right? And there's... One of
the guys decided to get the membership, CEO membership.
It's web23 .com. I'm just saying it right now
because then I'll forget. So just want to appreciate
and thank all the different guys that have become
members as well. Do you have any thoughts on
social media? Are you a slave of social media?
I think we all are at this point. Do you consider
YouTube social media? Yeah. I think then definitely
that's where I spent most of my time. When it
comes to social media, I deleted Instagram from
my phone because it was just a huge time sink
and I didn't get a lot of value out of it. There
are some people that I like to stay in touch
with and I had some cases where I reached out
to someone over Instagram. That's, for example,
also how I found my fitness coach that I've been
working with. But overall, 99 % of the time,
it's just a waste of time. So at least on YouTube,
I see that as more of a high quality social media.
You need to be a bit careful with shorts, in
my opinion. And I do have an app that restricts
the amount of shorts I can watch. Because, I
mean, there are some people that make amazing
shorts that are also informative. You learn something.
But then there's always a lot of randomness.
in that some point and then you just start looking
at stuff that you didn't sign up for you know
yeah yeah especially if it's stand -up comedy
man if you watch one of stand -up and it's gonna
show you a lot of stand -up and you're just gonna
go to the next and the next and the next and
next and yeah exactly like right now my my youtube
is full of watches just because i bought a watch
recently and like it's such a rabbit hole such
a nerdy rabbit hole as well i don't I like watches,
but I don't care about it so much. You know,
I don't need to see it every day. I find the
YouTube algorithm is a bit oversensitive. You
know, you expressed the slightest bit of interest
in a topic and then just, okay, that's your personality.
You know, that's all you're going to see. I feel
sorry for the guys that click on one of my videos
because then they're going to get spammed. If
you watch one of my videos, man, you're going
to get all of them afterwards. Yeah, they're
going to get sucked into the NeoVim rabbit hole.
Man, NeoVim and then macOS, and they're just
going to get lost for a couple months there.
Yeah, and soon they find themselves becoming
an arch user. Their partners are like, what happened,
man? I just clicked on a video. Yeah, that's
how it goes. yeah but it's really why we're all
here yeah exactly primogen's fault man right
now and how is it with the youtube analytics
app like that because there's two apps you write
youtube and if you do youtube you also install
another app which is youtube studio and if there's
someone out there that doesn't know what youtube
studio is because this is something that people
that do youtube use is an app that you use just
to look at the analytics like how the videos
did how the video is doing how many views it
has likes comments it sucks you in it's hell
it's horrible how has that been for you you don't
post that often so maybe it's not a huge problem
for you i don't know i just want to hear your
thoughts there i think it is actually because
for this exact reason i don't have so many videos
so one bad video is more weight oh yeah grand
scheme of my content you're not used to failing
like i am yeah yeah exactly the other day i made
videos about coolify do you know coolify it's
like this basically a self -hosted vercel just
open source okay so it allows you to self -host
your own manage your server and self -host your
own app and have like deployment workflows and
stuff like that And these videos didn't perform
as well as other videos. Now I think they got
a little bit more traction. The one below actually
was much worse. That's the job market. That was
my worst video so far. You felt what I feel regularly.
You get used to it. But it's a lot of work. It
sucks because you put hours into these things
and they just... Yeah. What happened? And the
studio app, it roasts you. It shows you this
video. People are not interested in this. Yeah,
exactly. 85 % less people are watching it than
usual. And it doesn't get enough engagement and
this kind of thing. And then it compares it to
your other videos. And you feel a little bit
like you're now stuck with doing what worked
in the past. And you can't talk about something
else. And I don't really like that. I want to
talk about what I like to talk about at the end
of the day. Yeah, the name of your channel is
Henry Misk. It's not Henry NeoVim Misk, right?
Exactly. And I mean, Vim and NeoVim, I do have
a lot more to share on that. It's a topic that
I'm really passionate about. And I think this
will be one of the core pillars also going forward.
If I just want to talk about, I have a video
about watches, a short actually. If I just want
to talk about watches, then I'm just going to
fucking do it and make a video about watches
because, you know, that's what interests me and
I'm feeling it at that moment, you know? Yeah.
What are your thoughts on niching down? Because
that's YouTube advice, you know? So pick a topic,
stick to it and niche down as much as possible.
So if it's going to be near him, just do near
him. And that's it. That's... general advice
out there i don't like that at all i don't want
to do you just just new of him if i install new
event today that's fine if i install emacs tomorrow
i'll make a video about it if i install mac os
if i install arch if i install windows if i install
whatever i want to install i just want to share
it out there what are your thoughts on just sticking
to to a topic because that's what they tell you
to do right yeah i have a few thoughts on that
i think it makes sense to stick to a core topic
that you want to be known for. And most of the
time it should be about that. But then also I
see people like, let's pick Joe Rogan, for example.
Like he's a podcaster and he also shares his
other interests, right? Like he talks about,
he likes hunting, he likes MMA. And I believe
that opens up the possibility to create actual
fans and super fans, really resonate with Joe
Rogan as a person. If he was just interviewing
people and not sharing any personal interests
or whatever, then he's just a podcaster. I mean,
you can like it and follow him, but if you're
also into MMA, then chances are you'll become
a big fan of Joe Rogan. And if you're into MMA
and hunting as well, you're going to become a
super fan. And so even though I think it makes
sense to stick to a core topic, it also makes
sense to share just who you are as a person and
this is also what i want to explore more because
i haven't done that a lot in the past but i believe
that's really valuable because that shows you
are a human and that gives the possibility for
people to to connect with you and actually yeah
you know not just know you for for vim but know
you for who you are as a person and i guess it's
still possible to pivot over time But maybe it
shouldn't be very abrupt. It should be maybe
into ancillary topics. Yeah, gradually. Yeah,
that makes sense. And then gradually talk about
other things. Like Luke Smith, I believe, he's
doing something completely different now, right?
Like he's on a farm and he did these philosophy
videos. But he had a huge fan base just talking
about Vim and things like that. It might have
been a little bit abrupt. But I guess you can
still do it. So basically create a cult. That's
what I'll do. So when I gradually switch into
Emacs, all of these guys, the ones in the chat,
they will not even notice it, but they will have
Emacs installed and they will be looking at their
email in Emacs and calendar and all that stuff.
They'll be following my cult. So that's what
you have to basically do, right? Yeah. okay and
do you have any thoughts on drugs and alcohol
you don't shy away from sensitive topics yeah
i don't shy away from sensitive topics yeah i
mean i have no problem as such with drugs or
alcohol it depends of course like on the amount
of abuse like if you're an alcoholic or like
an addict that's of course a different story
but in general i don't have any fundamentalist
beliefs or something like this that this is like
fundamentally wrong or anything like that so
i drink sometimes but not regularly like maybe
every other week i have a glass or so but also
not in huge quantities it used to be a bit different
like you know early 20s this kind of thing but
did it ever go out of control or no not to the
point where like i was addicted or anything but
definitely moments where it drank way too much
that's for sure i think a lot of people had that
experience i never took any hard drugs i studied
in the netherlands so there's also no way around
weed because it's legal there that's also never
like a lot or very regularly just you know trying
it i am very curious these days though about
psychedelics and the application of psychedelics
not like as a party drug but more for to learn
about yourself and you know get a bit more to
the bottom of more existential questions like
ayahuasca stuff or mushrooms or yeah that kind
of stuff i also i got this this book from from
my fiance she gave it to me sometime back i still
have to to finish it. It's called How to Change
Your Mind by Michael Pollan. Do you know it?
No. It's basically about this research with psychedelics
and how they're gaining more momentum in research,
especially to cure addictions and psychological
disorders and diseases. For example, I think
psilocybin or something like this. has been in
the research the most effective treatment to
cure heroin addiction and i think that's because
they have like therapy like they don't just take
it and then they're cured but there's like therapy
sessions that are kind of guided and stuff like
this that's what i understand from from the research
so far and what i've read about the topic so
far and then they administer this psychedelic
And a lot of times the root cause why people
started taking heroin in the first place is trauma
in the life or something similar. And they're
unable to resolve the trauma just on their own
by themselves. So they have these guided sessions
and the psychedelic kind of helps them get to
the root cause and understand what led them to
the point where they are in the first place.
So it helps to break these barriers. Like I'm
a total newbie in this topic, but I think it's
super fascinating that this is even a possibility.
And yeah, I think the power of psychedelics is
very underappreciated, but I haven't tried them
myself. I'm just very curious. Oh yeah, makes
sense. That is one of the cases in which I would
try them if I'm deep into heroin and I cannot
go out because it's not as simple as I'm not
going to do it anymore, right? I'm in favor of
maybe giving a try, experiment, see if it works,
because what else can you lose? You know, when
you're in that level of addiction and especially
with something like heroin, what are you going
to lose by trying? You know, if it works, awesome,
you know, but if it doesn't, well, you're just
going to. So, but my stance on drugs usually
is if you haven't opened that door, that. You
shouldn't be opening it because you're going
to access stuff that you are not supposed to
unlock. Just don't do it. That's my general advice.
And it depends as well on your personality. I'm
pretty addictive. I went all in alcohol. I went
all in drugs, you know, hard drugs, you know,
and marijuana every day for a long time. Addictive
completely. Oh. My personality does not play
well with drugs. So I guess that has a lot to
do as well. There's people that control it and
it's like, I'm going to try and leave it there,
you know. But yeah, I guess I speak based on
my own experience. It wasn't good. So I just
try to avoid it, you know, for other people that
haven't gone through that experience. Is it the
same with drinking for you? Like you don't drink
ever? No, not at all. I haven't drank in 10 years.
I can't. I'm an alcoholic, you know? So the only
thing that I drink now is 0 % beers. Yeah, I'm
an alcoholic. I cannot drink. If I drink, that's
just going to ignite the flame and it's just
going to explode and I'll go back. No. And one
thing is going to lead to the other. I'll drink.
I'll smoke. I'll do cocaine. No. Oh, wow. Yeah,
I can see that. Yeah. Me and my wife, we both
were living the crazy life. Man, we both of us
were crazy. None of us stopped. And that's a
bad combination. Usually there's a people crazy
and one calm. It wasn't our case. And it went,
it didn't go well. So we just stopped. Not because
we could do it. I'm not saying it's easy. And
that if you drink, you just know, man, it is
impossible to stop drinking. I was lucky. That's
what happened. I was lucky. I was able to quit.
And I cannot do it anymore because it's really
dangerous. So I just completely caught it. No,
I'm not doing it again. Hopefully. You never
know. But hopefully. That makes sense. It's also
very... I mean, it shows a deep level of self
-reflection if you're able to know that about
yourself and to realize that about yourself,
that you have that kind of personality trait
that tends towards addiction. Yeah, no, I can't.
And my daughter is there. No, she has never seen
me drink, and I don't want her to see that. No,
it wasn't good, and it's not going to be good,
so I just... completely i don't go to my dad
drinks you know he's 65 years old he still drinks
and i'm like why man me and my four brothers
we were we all we are alcoholics you know and
none of us is drinking at the moment and he still
drinks and it's like man like don't you see that
we're trying to recover it's i don't go to Places
where people are drinking because it's not good
for me, you know. But it's because of the condition
that I have. It's a disease, basically. Being
an alcoholic is a disease. You have to treat
it as such and just be careful. Take care of
yourself. I mean, it makes sense, right? If you
can have a few beers every other weekend and
then let go, then I think it's completely fine.
But if you know you can't or you struggle with
that, then it fully makes sense to completely
stay away. Yeah, yep, yep. Do you have any thoughts
on a supreme being like God? Do you have any
thoughts there, anything you want to share? Another
sensitive question. Another sensitive topic,
yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to get canceled
before we're even famous. Right. Never even going
to happen. Well, you know, I tolerate all religions
and any beliefs people might have and traditions
people might have, as long as they don't. harm
anyone or you know as long as we're all free
to believe what we want i have no problem with
any belief and so personally i grew up christian
on paper at least my family in practice was more
agnostic and so this is also kind of how i've
been raised i at this point i am not part of
any church because in germany i i exited the
church Because, I don't know if you know this,
but in Germany you have church tax. Oh no, like
you have to give a certain amount of your salary
to the church? Yeah, so when I had my first payslip
ever, I looked at it and there was like one line
that says church tax. And it was actually a lot
of money and I wasn't making a lot of money at
that time. I cannot afford this right now. I
cannot afford that. And the thing is, in Germany,
this is kind of a subscription that you opt in
by default, but you can still opt out. But then
you need to leave the church. So that's what
I did. Someone else made this experience. And
it's a lot of money. It's actually a lot of money.
Like what percentage is it? don't know what the
percentage was but in my case it was like 50
euros or something oh well that's like two times
chat gpt uh -huh yeah yeah and i'm not even that
religious and the thing is like i i have no problem
with that per se it's just that i have a little
bit of how do i say it without offending anyone
but there have been so many scandals around the
catholic church in recent years that i simply
it's not that i don't trust them but they also
haven't really earned my trust like i i'm not
sure if i'm giving them money that it will be
used for something that i agree with so i'd rather
not i mean i'm not against them in any way or
anything but at least i don't want to give them
money at this point maybe they can convince me
that what they're doing is great i haven't really
dig deep into that then maybe it's fine but at
this point i'm not convinced about that so that's
why i opened it out and regarding supreme being
so i actually i'm quite open you know i'm not
very set on god does exist or it doesn't or you
know one religion is correct or the other i'm
still kind of in the open sort of on these questions.
And I don't have a final answer, but something,
this is a thought experiment by Alan Watts that
I found really insightful that has really shaped
my perspective on things. You know Alan Watts?
Nope. I'm an ignorant. I just don't know about
authors, books or anything. I just know about
terminals, NeoVim. My wife is the one that knows
about that stuff. He was this philosopher, American
philosopher. I think it was in the 60s and 70s.
There's still a lot of recordings from him on
YouTube. And he just talks about all kinds of
things. I think he was also big in psychedelics,
but don't quote me on this. Anyway, he had this
thought experiment. And this really blew my mind
and changed how I think about this topic, even
though it didn't lead me to a final answer. Do
you want to hear it? Yep, I want to hear it for
sure. Okay, so the thought experiment by Alan
Watts goes something like this. So imagine you
have the ability to every night dream any dream
you want to dream. And the dream lasts 75 years
or something like this or any duration that you
want really. That's your superpower. So what
we would probably do is... initially just have
every kind of pleasure that we want to have right
because we can decide what we want to do in this
dream and the dream lasts a lifetime so you would
live like a life just pleasure doing whatever
you want and maybe after you know a hundred maybe
a thousand nights like this it's going to be
a bit boring so you would start to spice things
up a little bit and make something happen that
you don't know it's going to happen. Something's
going to happen that you don't know what it is.
And then you would maybe come out of this dream
and think, whoa, this was a close call. That
was kind of interesting. And then you would venture
out further and further and make bigger and bigger
gambles about what you can do in these dreams.
And at the end of the day, at some point, you
would dream, exactly where you are right now
you'd be dreaming the dream of living the life
that you're living right now that would be within
the infinite realm of possibilities of this ability
so what he says is that it is kind of like you
you would be pretending that you don't have this
ability to create these dreams But you are actually
the creator of these dreams. And I'm not saying
that this is correct or incorrect, but I think
it's a very interesting idea to play with and
to entertain. And yeah, that's pretty much how
the thought experiment goes. What do you think?
So in the end, you would end up acting the way
that you're acting right now, even though you
could do many other things. You could do whatever
you want. Because you said at the beginning,
you'll get bored of... drugs, alcohol, all that
stuff. And in the end, you're going to end up
doing what you're doing right now, correct? Exactly.
You would impose further and further limitations
and randomness into those dreams. And within
all the possibilities, the infinite nights and
infinite years, at some point, you would arrive
exactly where you are right now. That's interesting.
Interesting. And you don't have any... Beliefs
then. On a supreme force. Or something out there.
Well I guess. I don't have any beliefs. I'm saying
like. I'm willing to entertain. Different ideas.
But I haven't arrived at a final conclusion yet.
That is definite. Definitive. I just think that.
Like this are very interesting. And. in this
case let's say this turns out to be true then
the supreme being would be that basically in
this world god would be an infinite mind that
is able to imagine everything including this
life that we're living right now so it's not
really a being as such it's more like a mind
in which everything exists and i'm not saying
that this is correct or not i'm saying this is
a interesting thoughts to entertain yeah man
we try to understand something that we don't
understand right uh something maybe god is an
arch user something out there creates universes
right they're being created they're being destroyed
galaxies and uh We're trying to understand all
this that doesn't make sense. It's like if an
ant was trying to understand, you know, a country,
it can't. It's way too big. So complicated stuff.
No one has the answer. I think you find God when
tough stuff happens to you. Like in my case,
my addiction and all that, it was thing to something.
I want to think it's God, not Jesus Christ, because
that's the way that I was raised. I don't know.
We cannot understand it. I think it has way too
many shapes. It's understandable. So it's just
going to get to you the way that it has to get
to you. That's going to be either science. It's
going to be Jesus. It's going to be Krishna.
It's going to be Buddha. It's going to be however
you understand it. I don't know. what what can
i say about it i don't understand and no one
does so we just have to i guess whatever makes
you a better person as long as it makes you a
better person it works that's fine right and
like i said in another call imposing it to other
people that's where the problem is you know i'm
not gonna come to you and say hendrick you have
to believe in krishna because that's the no man
what saying do i have into what you want to believe
I have no saying at all. Right. Just stick to
what it works for you. Respect everyone else
and just don't mess with people and don't harm
them. Right. Exactly. We are all like, you know,
here and being kind of lost about things and
figuring this life out. And, you know, I mean,
maybe there are people who are closer to it than
than others. But still, you know. Nobody likes
unsolicited advice. Yeah. And they don't know.
Nobody knows, man. Not even the gurus. Yeah,
that's also a possibility. Yeah. So not even
the gurus that tell me what to do, you know,
and that help me, they don't know, right? So
we're just connecting to something out there
that is making us better people. And whatever
that it is for you, you know, it's not going
to be the same for everyone, right? So yeah,
unsolicited advice. Same thing happens with vegetarianism.
I don't go around in life and tell everyone,
hey, you should stop eating meat. Hey, you're
eating. Because I'm just going to not cause the
effect that I want, right? I don't want animals
to be killed. But I'm not going to be saying
it to everyone, to my friends. None of my friends
is vegetarian. None. Of my family members is
vegetarian. Nobody. But I'm not going to be like,
hey, you guys have to stop eating meat. Because
I'm going to do the opposite. They're just going
to hate it. They're not going to be open about
it. And I'm just going to. No, I'm not going
to achieve what I want. So productive. Yeah.
What do you think of that? Do you go around in
life and tell them, hey, you should stop killing
animals and stop eating meat and all that? yeah
exactly also everyone's life story and situation
is very different for example in in may of this
year i was in south korea and cycling through
the country and so i spent a lot of time in the
south korean countryside during that time and
i basically had to eat whatever was available
there like there it was impossible to to be a
vegetarian and also like i don't speak even the
language it was super hard to communicate with
people even And I'm not going to be there telling
like a 70 -year -old grandma who runs a restaurant
in the countryside to like, well, can you maybe...
I'm a vegetarian. I know you don't know what
this is, but can you... I don't like the meals
the way you make them, you know? Like everybody's
life situation is very different. And there are
people who have... conditions where they can't
do that maybe they live in a place where they
don't have good availability like I mean in Barcelona
it's very easy but in other places it's very
hard so I would also understand if you're not
vegetarian because your environment is not very
supportive of that and even that at the end of
the day there's still a debate if this is actually
the the best you know and I'll be all and I'm
not convinced that everyone would benefit from
being a vegetarian maybe some people not you
know but it's something that that works well
for me and has been working quite well so i keep
doing it and it's aligned with what i believe
in but i also understand if for someone else
it doesn't click yeah i just respect everyone
basically right just let them do what they want
to do same thing i say to my daughter right so
She's the only kid in school, like in the entire
school that is vegetarian. I tell her, you don't
go around and telling people that they don't
have to eat meat. No, you have to respect them.
Everyone can do whatever they want. You don't
do it because that's the way that we teach you
in the house. We don't do it. That's it. You
don't care what other people is doing because
it's confusing, right? Her grandma, her grandpa,
they eat meat. Everyone in my family eats meat
and it's confusing for her. And it's like, but
what the hell is going on then? So respect, basically.
It boils down to respect. And realistically,
you can't change people. The only way that I
had any success, I don't want to say converting,
but convincing people that this is a good idea,
is when they came to me with a genuine curiosity
and they were interested. why I'm doing it. And
then I share why I'm doing it without saying
that you should do the same. But I believe this
is how I had the most success in getting the
message across. It doesn't work if I just go
up to random people and tell them, well, you
should do the same. That's not how it works.
It also doesn't work at work with Neo of him.
I'm preaching the gospel of Neo of him at work,
but nobody cares. No, but same thing happened
to me, man. I was like, I have a friend. Well,
we're still friends. We meet each Wednesday.
He's from the US. And he used Emacs. And I try
to, no, I never try to get into any of him. He
was like, why do you do that? No, you cannot
convince anyone to do anything unless they reach
out. That's when you got him, right? Exactly.
Yeah. No one at works understands your passion
for all this. Can you talk to someone about it
or no? You're just there by yourself with your
terminal. And when you see your screen, they're
like, what is this guy doing? There are a few
people who are into NuVim and CLI tools. And
I even started at work a Slack channel called
CLI Wizards. And so there are like 20, 30 enthusiasts
are in the channel. I created a Slack channel,
NuVim. It was just like three folks there. And
it's a huge company, you know? And yeah, it didn't
work. Newvim is also very specific. I think in
the CLI wizards, there are also people who don't
necessarily use Newvim. They're just passionate
about Linux. Good idea. But yeah, there are like
five, six people maybe who also use Newvim. And
I mean, that's pretty cool. That's always a great
way to connect. Do they know you have a channel?
I think these people, not specifically, but in
my team, most people know, but I would be surprised
if they were watching because probably they're
not very interested in this nerdy rabbit hole.
Yeah, definitely. Okay. Now, what tools do you
use to push to GitHub? Like if you use GitHub
or GitLab, whatever, what tools do you use? Do
you use LazyGit or just commands or what? LazyGit.
Lazy Git, yeah. You like it? Yeah, it's solid.
Yeah, I used to have aliases for Git commands
set up, like GA for Git add and GP for Git push
and stuff like this. It works to some extent.
I also built some custom Git workflows with FZF
and aliased them to make it a bit smoother. It
doesn't beat LazyGit, man. LazyGit is too good.
Yeah, same here. You just stage a file easily.
You don't have to type a thing. You just stage
it, C to commit, type your message. You're good
to go. Pretty simple. You get the preview. You
can scroll through the file. You can go into
the file and pick a specific section to just
commit that specific part. it's it's an awesome
tool yeah i use lazy git as well and yeah even
the more the more complex workflows like interactive
rebase and like squashing commits and renaming
and this kind of stuff that tends to be a bit
hard to remember if you do it manually but basically
it's like so easy i don't even get it with lazy
git sometimes i get into shit and i'm like what
the hell happened here and i just delete the
whole changes go back Fuck this and start over,
man. Sometimes I just get into places where I
cannot go out of and I'm like, fuck this. That
happens to me as well. Yeah, it's an amazing
tool. And for work, it worked as well, you know,
because I just created my branch in there, named
the branch and then just pushed my changes. The
only thing I had to go to GitHub was to merge
the PR and all that stuff. I could have used
another tool. There's this guy that I had an
interview with. GitHub CLI, what is it called?
What is the name of that tool called? Damn, I
don't even remember. Dash? GH dash, I think it
is. Yeah, you can merge, you can view issues,
I think. Yeah, GH dash. I don't remember. But,
okay. And Tmux, you're into Tmux as well? Because
you mentioned that for CloudCod, you can open
a Tmux pane. So what else do you use Tmux for?
everything pretty much i usually have one session
per project that i'm working in okay awesome
okay the way the way the lord intended exactly
exactly sessions okay yes and then yeah that's
pretty much it i mean the main new window i sometimes
do like a paint on the side maybe with cloud
code in some cases then i have different windows
sometimes to see a different code base or to
to spin up a server or something like this in
data science projects we work a lot with jupyter
notebooks i hate them but sometimes i need to
run jupyter notebooks and at least then i can
spin up the server in a different window and
then go to my browser but yeah man don't get
me started on jupyter notebooks that's the worst
part of data science in my opinion Yeah, I did
receive a course in university where I had to
run some of those notebooks. I had to go to a
page and get some notebooks and just run them
in the, what is it, Google Colab thing, right?
Yeah. Yeah, not fun. Yeah, it's horrible. And
it doesn't have, they're Vim plugins, but then
it's really not the same. They're very limiting,
even worse than Vim and Obsidian. So you cannot
implement them in NeoVim. There's no way around
it. There is. I actually want to explore this
possibility. There's a plugin called... I forgot
what it was called. But there's a way to run
Jupyter notebooks in Neovim. The problem is that
it has a lot of dependencies. So system -level
dependencies that need to be installed to view
them properly and be able to render plots and
stuff like this. And I'm not sure how smooth
and stable it's going to be. So yeah, I haven't
had really the time to look into it very deeply,
but I will explore this for sure at some point
because that's the biggest pain point in my workflow
right now. And you mentioned TMAX sessions. How
do you switch between sessions? Do you use the
TMAX sessionizer by Prime or how do you switch
between them? No, I'm actually curious about
the sessionizer. So far, I haven't missed anything
in the... default tmux i'm wondering what what
the sessionizer even solves what problem does
it solve so it just allows you to switch between
sessions easily create sessions right so that's
that's what i use it for this is a tmux session
this is my daily note which is something that
i don't miss in obsidian i use the daily note
a lot but if you look at my daily notes right
if i bring up my explorer here you're gonna notice
that they're listed here right all of them So
yesterday I had a call with Matt from the Linux
cast. I have the notes here. So, oh, I was not
supposed to mention that to show that. I'm trying
to interview Mitchell Hashimoto from Ghost. We're
going to see what happens. But I use sessions
a lot for this. Like this is my daily note. It's
a TMAX session. So basically what the sessionizer
does is checks if a TMAX session already exists.
If it exists, it's just going to switch to the
session, right? I have three sessions right now.
My notes, Obsidian, my dot files, and this is
my daily note, right? So when you execute a key
map, I have it mapped to a key map, right? So
if I type here a shortcut, it's going to switch
to my dot files. And if I want to switch to my
notes, it's another shortcut. which is here.
If I want to go back to my .files or if I want
to go to my daily note again, so I can navigate
between sessions easily, right? So it's just
basically an if. If the Tmux session exists,
just switch to it, right? Do not create it. Switch
to it, but if it does not exist, create the session.
And that's what I use it for, to switch between
projects, basically. So it helps you skip the
session screen? Yeah, it helps me skip the session
screen. I never opened this. I did used to open
it in the past because I had like 20 sessions
open and I needed to clean them up, right? But
I don't, I have a Tmux cleanup script now. So
if I switch to my .files, I don't know why it's
pasting that there. But if I have this cleanup,
here is it. tmux kill sessions this one i have
this script that is just going to close the tmux
sessions that i have not accessed in three minutes
or five minutes i don't remember what the time
i said was where is it uh that seems like a short
interval yeah but if i don't access a tmux session
in a certain amount of time I'm not going to
access it. I have learned this. Notice here's
110 minutes. Yeah, 110 minutes. No, not three
minutes. I'm sorry. It's three hours, two hours,
right? A little bit less than two hours. So if
I don't access a session in two hours, I'm not
going to access it anymore. I know that for a
fact. So it helps me keep them clean here, right?
If I don't access it in two hours, it's dead
for me. I don't want to be cleaning it up. I
don't want to have 20 sessions in there because
I used to have that in the past and I had to
clean them up. I don't worry about that anymore.
So the sessionizer is basically just to switch
between sessions easily, right? Does it kill
your .files session? What do you mean? Because
for me, at least, the .files session... It's
something I would always keep open, but sometimes
I don't access it for days or weeks. Oh yeah,
it kills it. But let's say that I'm in my notes,
right? And I'm going to bring up this thing here.
I'm going to kill this session. The .files are
dead, right? So if I'm in my notes, notice that
my .files are not even there at the time, just
my notes. But with a shortcut, if I type three
keys on my keyboard, just... brings it up, and
I'm back in. Got it. Right? But now the session
is created, right? It took a little bit longer
because I configured it so that when it jumps
to that session, it opens NeoVim and it restores
the session. It types the letter S to restore.
So it puts me back where I was, right? So now
that it created the session, I can easily go
back to it because it just switches. It doesn't
have to create it again, basically. Got it. That
seems neat. Yeah. How do you navigate sessions?
Do you open this session? So I rarely have more
than two sessions that I'm actively working in
at any point in time. So for that use case, I
just use the... Alternate. Yeah. So to jump between
those two. And then if I really need to open
a new session, then I just... you know, go through
the session window and select it. Yeah. I don't
keep a lot of sessions too. I would be lying
to you if I would say I keep this one, which
is my .files all the time, my notes, because
I need to reference my notes. The daily note
is something that I keep as well. And my blog
post, right? I have another one for my blog post.
So if I type the command, it's going to take
me to my blog post and I'm going to jump to the
blog post, right? So I keep... four, five, maybe,
usually four or five. But I'm usually, or my
home, right? I have another session for my home
where I type commands. I just like typing commands
here. And it's a separate session on its own,
right? But that's basically it. Five, six sessions,
maybe the most. So it helps. I think it helps.
At least two. Got it. you know, quickly switch
between the sessions. It becomes useful. Yeah.
I look into it. Is it like a plugin or? No, it's
just a script that the Primogen created. Let
me bring it up. I'm going to switch to my .files
here. Sessionizer here. It's just this script,
basically. I have a modified version. I modified
things a little bit, but it's basically the same
thing, right? So it's just. Really simple stuff.
I have more comments here than code, you know,
but yep, this is what restores, right? So when
I switch to a session, it's just going to bring
up NeoVim because I always use NeoVim. If I need
to switch to a session, it's because I'm going
to open NeoVim. And except for the home session,
I think I have a condition here somewhere. If
it's the home session, don't do it. I don't remember
exactly, but I open NeoVim. I type S to restore
the session, so I just go back to where I was.
And here, if the session is running, just switch
to it, basically. But if it's not running, create
it. It's a very simple script that he created.
Very cool. I'll definitely check it out. Yeah.
Have you heard about this other... I don't know
what it is. well operating system or whatever
it is nixos have you heard about it do you have
any thoughts there have you been curious yeah
man that's another rabbit hole i don't want to
get into to be honest yeah that seems seriously
deep yeah so i i do see the the use case and
the value but also i have like some custom setup
scripts for mac os and i just need to run one
install script when i have a new mac and that
sets everything up it installs homebrew it installs
all the dependencies all the tools when you have
them config so at least on macros i'm i'm good
i would say i don't need extra stability you
know yeah how often are you gonna buy a mac anyway
or or rebuild it right every few years so Yeah,
so I do see the merit in it. And I do think it's
very interesting. But then it's such a deep rabbit
hole that I don't know what I'm really gaining,
what I'm getting out of it. I mean, yes, you
could learn it for the sake of learning it because
it's an interesting tool. But then also, what
purpose does it serve right now in my workflow?
And I don't really see a big benefit in that,
even though it's really cool. And I'll probably
explore it at some point. for content at least
but you know that is going to be exactly the
learning experience if you do content then you
always have an excuse to to go into any kind
of rabbit hole yeah yeah i feel the same way
i'm just like no i definitely i'm not going to
do that it's like emacs for me i'm just like
nope not doing that right now right and when
we were talking about terminals you mentioned
you're not using go see that's what i know what
what do you use then I use Westerm. I want to
explore Ghosty as well. It seems quite cool.
But also I'm quite happy with Westerm so far.
Okay. And what do you like about Westerm? Why
haven't you decided to try Ghosty? To be honest
with you, I'm not in Ghosty for a particular
reason. The cursor is cool, right? I do like
the cursor. And I don't think any other terminals
will be able to achieve that. And that is just
because of the way... that the shaders work in
ghosty right these double color that you see
in the cursor is some shaders that are applied
and uh that's what it makes it look like that
um i don't know if the cursor can be implemented
and implemented in western it can be implemented
in kitty there's the neobim plugin as well for
the cursor but um ghosty is great, but I wouldn't
have a problem in switching to Westerm, back
to Westerm or to Kitty. Any of the three is fine
with me. So why haven't you decided to try ghosting?
Like there's no reason. Is there something that
you like about Westerm or? Yeah, so I've tried
a few terminals. I've been using Kitty for a
while and I also tried Alacrity. Initially it
was iTerm2. But honestly, the main reason is
kind of dumb if i'm completely honest can we
get my screen on the yep let me switch to it
yeah so you see here in restroom the t -max bar
and now i'm i'm zoomed in a little bit if i put
it into like normal zoom then there's this space
at the bottom of the t -max bar and that really
depends on your font size and like how much you
are zoomed in or not like this now it's getting
really big and there's also the space on the
on the side like here on the right side of the
t -max bomb and yeah that really depends on the
font size and some terminals handle it a bit
better than others kitty did it very well but
then in alacrity i couldn't get it to look good
i always had a huge amount of space on the right
and space below the t -max bar so honestly this
is my main criteria on why i stuck with western
because uh For the most part, I got it to look
decent. But yeah, so... Let's see. If Ghosty
can get rid of the space, then I would switch
to Ghosty. Otherwise, Westterm is quite good.
Also, Westterm has some built -in color themes,
so it's very easy to make everything look very
consistent without too much configuration. And
the glyphs... rendered quite nicely. For me,
at least KD looked a little bit pixelated. Not
by a lot, but Westterm definitely renders it
much sharper. So overall, it's just aesthetics
for me and the reason why I went with Westterm.
But I would be happy with any other terminal.
It's just my OCD. It's triggered by unnecessary
space. Yeah, I experienced that. I switched back
to our screen. If you want to show something
else, you let me know. I experienced that with
Ghosty and with all of them. And I remember going
through the borders and looking at them top,
bottom, left, right. And yeah, I had to configure
them differently in Kitty, in Ghosty. I think
I have different configurations for each one
of them. But yeah. Do you know why it happens,
though? I'm not a terminal expert. I have no
idea. But I did experience that with all of them.
Each one, different settings for it to show up
the way that I want it. So it was tough. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. And, well, we already talked about
your keyboard. What layout do you use, by the
way, on your keyboard? Is it QWERTY? Yes, exactly.
Yeah? Have you thought about the other ones?
I have, but I prefer to be able to use a normal
computer like a normal human being. I feel like
if I switch to, I don't know, Dwarak or Colmac,
then I would be very dependent on this. I'm sure
it would feel great and I would have a much more
ergonomic experience even. But man... I don't
always travel with this keyboard. Sometimes I
just have my MacBook. I go to a coffee shop or
whatever and sit down and do some work. And if
I had to switch to a different layout at home
and at a coffee shop, basically at the end of
the day, I would have a worse workflow. I just
want to be able to use the built -in keyboard
as well. But you could use a tool like Kanata
to remap the whole thing. That's what I did with
my MacBook keyboard. With Kanata, I just... Basically
made all of the modifier keys useless. If I press
them, they don't do anything because I remapped
them with Kanata. So you could do that with Kanata
as well. But my take on it is I have my daughter
here with me. I have to teach her about computers
eventually. We did try. I taught her the Vim
Tutor for a little while. I didn't continue.
I didn't continue. It just was a one day thing.
I have to be more consistent with that. But when
the time comes and I have to teach her all this
stuff, I'm not going to be in Colmec and she's
going to be in QWERTY. It's going to be painful
for me because I won't have to use QWERTY at
that time. And it's going to be painful for her
if she tries to use my computer. So I just wanted
to be compatible with other people in my house,
basically. Yeah. Honestly, they should teach
women schools. They should. It shouldn't be your
job. BIM motions and all that stuff. Okay. Now,
to wrap it up, I want to go over not technical
related stuff. If there's something that you
want to talk about, you just ask the question,
you just stop me and you just ask it and we can
talk about it. But are you into music? Do you
want to share anything about music? Oh, yeah.
I am into music. Are you a pianist, by the way?
Because I see a piano and a guitar in the background.
No, that's a MIDI keyboard that I bought like,
god damn, 10 years ago or even more. And I play
the guitar. And I even recorded a few songs.
I did record one in Spotify. It was years ago.
Nah, I stopped playing the guitar. I like it,
but... I haven't done it in a while, actually.
Yeah, what about you? Are you into making music?
I do play piano and the guitar as well. Although
I haven't touched it now for quite some time
because of them, you know. But in theory, I really
like it and I practiced for many years. And yeah,
so I'm also like into classical music and...
i appreciate although like the the genre that
i'm mostly into is hardcore music oh hardcore
yes that's kind of what i grew up with and never
it never left me and what type of bands or like
i think the the most known ones are probably
like parkway drive and Bring Me the Horizon.
They became quite mainstream at this point. Also,
there was the ones... I mean, it's the style
of music that I like, but I'm not a big fan of
this particular band. But they got nominated
for the Grammys. Not crannies. What are they
called? Knocked Loose. Knocked Loose. yes let's
see let's see let me look let me look them up
hold on yeah they're quite sick knock and uk
or what knocked knocked loose yeah oh okay and
like a tooth yeah k n o c k this yeah exactly
now what is this is it some sort of metal oh
it has the pig the pig voice right that that
squeaks is is is that is that what it is i can
see this guy's Doing the pig sounds. Is that
it? It's not necessarily pig sounds, but there
used to be pig screams in the genre that used
to be a bit more popular back then. But yeah,
it's shouting and it's guitars and drums and
this kind of stuff. Oh, okay. Yeah, so that's
kind of my main deal with music. Oh, shouting
and metal stuff, right? yes it also works really
well at the gym oh i also like like classic metal
like iron maiden for example and i saw the shirt
yeah i saw the shirt oh yeah yeah i i love them
but i'm really into into anything i also like
electronic music especially for coding like this
kind of hardcore music doesn't work so well you
can imagine it's not the best it's stress i don't
see this guy singing like a kid friendly song
i i see that he's kind of excited so it must
be like a stream like us right yeah i can highly
recommend it's also quite known i think he's
german ben burma ben that's ben ben okay ben
yeah ben burma it's like b b o b o h m e r yeah
the first one Okay. It's actually a German sound.
Yeah, with the two dots on top of the O. He's
really good. That makes kind of like electronic
chill music, I would say. It's also quite popular.
Oh, he looks chill. Yeah, yeah. That's perfect
for coding. And Tom Day. He's a bit lesser known,
but amazing music for coding. Day. Day? Like
this? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's also like
electronic chill kind of music. Works perfectly
for coding. Oh, interesting. Electronic chill.
What's your favorite Iron Maiden album? Album?
Probably Number of the Beast. A Number of the
Beast? My favorite song is Hollowed by the Name.
Do you know it? Yep. Yeah, I was a huge Iron
Maiden fan back in the day. My favorite one,
let me tell you which one it is. It's a concert.
85, I think it was. I had the DVD. Man, they
were pretty young. This is by far my favorite
Iron Maiden album. I don't listen to Iron Maiden
anymore because I listen to it so much. man and
i'm i exaggerated uh you know i did it i overdid
it and i cannot stand it anymore but this is
an album that i play from time to time the dvd
um yeah sometimes we have moments i'm also like
you know i have moments where i overdo it on
a band on album but then like years later i come
back to it and then it's still amazing you know
yeah yeah look at this one hold on i'm gonna
play it i hope it doesn't sound but look they
were pretty young the rhyme of the ancient manner
that's the song it's 15 minutes long 85 man 85
yeah if you like iron maiden listen to this song
but in this uh concert god damn one of my favorite
ones didn't even have new of them back then Yeah,
yeah, for sure. What other bands are you into
then? Classical, metal? The other day, speaking
of like revival of like old bands, I kind of
found myself in a system of a down rabbit hole
again. Oh, I watched the documentary. Well, not
a documentary. About the guy in YouTube. Or where
did I watch it? What's it called? tankian or
something like that yeah he's from where is he
from from um i think armenia yeah somewhere yeah
i don't know exactly but i watched that and he's
a pretty smart guy i didn't know he's a real
artist i didn't know that about him i really
appreciate that that kind of getting back to
like craftsmanship and artistry i love that yeah
so what you went into the system of a down rabbit
hole yeah and just like listen to the old songs
you know like they're just so good and timeless
and same with lincoln park the old songs and
i watched some concerts it's just you know so
good and i actually wondered like specifically
about lincoln park because the sound back in
the back when they were popular like i said still
popular but when they just became popular it
was so unique like nobody did this like they
did the whole you know rap and metal instruments
elements and then they did this what you call
the the vinyl scratching and stuff like this
this stuff was just getting popular but kind
of in separate genres and they combined all this
and brought this together and it was you know
and also the screams of chester bennington and
then combined with rap and all this it sounded
so unique and i was wondering like if in the
future we make music with ai and it's quite good
a friend of mine showed me the other day How
you can make music from just a prompt. And it's
surprisingly good. Oh really? Yeah because he
made a song about us. Prompted a song about us.
And it was super good. But I was wondering. Would
something like Linkin Park. Come out of AI. If
it had existed back then. Or was it. Because
it had never been done before. So unique. AI
couldn't even think about this. Because. all
it knows is it's training data yeah you know
i don't know maybe it can but let's see about
that i guess we'll find out yeah if it can create
something unique that people tune into basically
right yeah and are you into movies as well is
there any movies that you would like to recommend
or that you like to watch not a lot i'm more
into series yep specifically these days into
k dramas honestly like my like my mother -in
-law really yeah is that the korean ones yeah
exactly yeah they're for old ladies man how did
you end up there well honestly they are so good
like i heard the other day that hollywood these
days is basically private equity like all the
hollywood studios have been bought by private
equity And I find that I never knew what it was
before I heard that, but I found that Hollywood
has gotten so stale and predictable. Oh man,
it's horrible. The same formula. The action movies,
they suck. I hate them. And that explains, if
it's true that private equity is infested in
Hollywood, then that explains a lot to me. And
I don't know, man, the plots of K -dramas, they're
just so good. The characters are written so well.
And I don't know, maybe that's because A lot
of times they're based on manga or webtoon. And
they already became popular as a manga. So you
already have that proof of concept. I mean, there's
so much manga out there. And then if one of them
becomes really popular, then it's kind of like
a guaranteed success if you turn that into a
well -written series. When I see my mother -in
-law and when my wife and I see her, she always
brings up one of the series, one of the K -drama
series. And she starts telling us this story.
And we're like, no, no, no, no, no. Just don't.
Because when she starts, she doesn't stop, man.
And it can last hours. Do you talk to everyone
about your K -drama shows? You have to introduce
me to her. Yeah. I feel we would bond over that
topic. Yeah. Does anyone else in your work and
all that share this interest for the K -drama
series? Yeah, Kelly, my fiancee does. We watch
all of them together. That's awesome. Yeah, we
got people to watch them as well. And now they're
also, you know, they joined the cult and they're
now evangelists. And now, since it's approved
by someone that uses NeoVim, a lot of the audience
are going to watch it and probably even me. Go
for it. You're opening a door that you shouldn't
have opened. Go for it, man. We're going to become
the cave -in community. Yeah. Oh, man. Okay,
so more into series, just gay drama, and that's
it, right? These days, pretty much. But there's
one series that is one of my favorites, which
is not Korean, which is Mr. Robot. Oh, I watched
it just a little bit, but I didn't end it, no.
How could you not get hooked on it, man? I don't
know. I don't know. I just didn't continue. One
that I did get hooked on was The Office. Have
you watched The Office? No, just random clips
from it. And they're good. The first series sucks.
The first season sucks. So if you're going to
watch it, just keep that in mind. You're not
going to love the first season. Just work your
way through it once you reach season two and
three. You're going to love it. There's a point
in which, do you know what happens? I don't want
to spoil it or should I spoil it? You're not
going to watch it. Do you want me to spoil it
or not? I might actually watch it because it's
my kind of humor. Do you think it would be completely
spoiled? Like I couldn't watch it if you tell
me? I would stop watching it at a certain point.
That's all I'm going to say. If you see that
a major event happens. and you see that you don't
see a character that you loved a lot and you
don't see it show up anymore, I would stop watching
it at that point. Then don't tell me, because
I'm actually interested in watching it at some
point. If you see one of the characters that
you like and you suddenly stop seeing that character,
it doesn't happen right at the beginning. It's
a lot of seasons happen like six, seven, eight.
I don't remember exactly, but something happens
after that for me personally was just a waste
of time. I didn't like it anymore, but pretty
good. First season, just keep it in mind. You're
not going to love it. I hated it. And I tried
it again, like two years after. And I was like,
man, now this is the second time that I watched
it full and I want to watch it again. So it's
nice. Yeah, I'm a fan of Michael. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I know him from the clips from The Office.
And yeah, it's also my favorite character. Yeah,
he's awesome. I also really love the same actor
in Anchorman. You know Anchorman? Anchorman?
No. What is it? I watched Foxcatcher, I think.
I didn't like that one. Anchorman, let's see.
Yeah, Anchorman. A movie about like 70s news
anchors. With the same actor, same kind of humor.
It's brilliant. I highly recommend. I haven't
watched it. I want to watch it. I have watched
clips actually about this one, to be honest.
It's this one, right? Yeah, yeah. I have to watch
it. He also shows up in a movie that I recommended
to Sylvan. Which is called... This is more of
a serious movie because he does a lot of comedy,
right? So... What the hell? This one. This movie.
If you haven't watched it, man. It's an awesome
movie. If you can watch it. Beautiful boy. Beautiful
boy. Just like... Just like... Sylvan Franklin.
This is... The real... The real... You know?
That is the real Vimothi. Vimothi Chalamet or
however it's pronounced. We are not writing Vimothi's
name correctly because people is using D -I -M
-O -T -H -Y and it has to be written this way.
So if someone else is still watching this, this
is the right way, but just with a V instead of
a T, right? I'm going to start correcting people
from now on if they do this. Yeah, but this is
a wonderful movie. Man, I loved it. It's great.
If you can, give it a try. Cool. Thanks for the
recommendation. Yeah. And video games, are you
into that or no? I used to be, like in my teens,
I used to play a lot of Silk Road online. You
know it? I've heard it, I think, but no. It's
basically like World of Warcraft. But instead
of being an orc or a dwarf or something like
this, you are a Chinese character. This one?
Yeah, this was a huge time sink for me. And it's
a horrible game. Honestly, it really sucks. Because
it's such a grind. The game has quests as well.
You can do quests. But the amount of experience
you get towards your level... is over -proportional
to the amount of skill points you get. So if
you do quests, then you will level faster, but
you will be underskilled for your level. So nobody
does quests. They just go grinding, killing mobs
the whole time. And so this is kind of boring.
So everybody, there's not a single player who's
not botting. Everybody is botting. So it's kind
of pointless. You play this game, but nobody
is there. It's like, you know, it's just ghosts.
And then maybe at some point, like friends and
me, we were just, you know, gathering and you
can do cool stuff there that then actually involves
playing. But most of the time we were just botting
during the day and then go skateboarding and
then came back in the evening. And hopefully
we didn't get disconnected from the server or
something, but hopefully the bot did its job
and collected a lot of items and didn't die.
And yeah. I don't know. Then we could actually
play and have some fun. But yeah, it's the worst
game. Honestly, don't start playing it. Yeah,
it's like Nioh Vim. Nioh Vim is actually good.
I mean, Nioh Vim improves your life. This doesn't.
Okay. Awesome. All right. We've been here for
three hours, man. It's a long time. Oh, wow.
Three hours. Wow. Didn't even notice. yeah is
there anything you else you want to discuss to
wrap it up maybe one point from the beginning
because at the very beginning when we were talking
about um my channel and why it has relative to
the amount of videos a high amount of subscribers
i mentioned there are three points that i believe
are contributing to that and i only touched on
two i mentioned there are three points and Two
of them are out of my control, which is the thumbnails
and the timing of the videos, which was lucky.
I didn't touch upon the third point. So I just
want to bring that up to wrap this point up.
I actually believe the third point is because
I'm kind of an idiot, honestly. Why? Because
I actually believe that for someone working in
tech as an engineer, I probably have below average
IQ in that field. And I honestly believe that.
But this is actually a benefit if you try to
make tutorial videos or explain things to other
people. Because I know it from people who I work
with or who I studied with. And I sometimes admire
how smart they are and how quickly they pick
up stuff. And I can tell also because my fiance,
she has an attested high IQ. She did an IQ test
as a child and it was very high. And I noticed
that when we do... We sometimes play board games
and we do escape rooms a lot. And she's just
so much quicker than me at connecting the dots.
This is where intelligence, pure IQ really shines.
And I really notice a huge difference. But also
she's not that great at explaining things. And
I also noticed that from university. In a difficult
course in time series, I had this professor.
who i believe was a bit autistic kind of a genius
probably also very high iq but he was he really
sucked as a professor honestly because yeah yeah
he drew something on the blackboard nobody could
follow to him everything was obvious because
he's a genius right yeah to the rest of the people
who are just like normal students nobody got
it and i believe that's kind of a bit the the
the fallacy or the If you're a genius, everything
is obvious to you. And that makes it very hard
to communicate that to other people who are not
geniuses. I'm not a genius. I'm maybe not completely
the opposite. But I think probably the average
viewer of my videos might be much smarter than
me. And if they have any question, as dumb as
the question might be, probably I had the question
before. nothing is obvious to me i asked all
the dumb questions i figured i still figure things
out at the end but i think that's why i can explain
things in in ways that most people can can follow
and i get that feedback a lot in the comments
that people like how i explain stuff so i guess
that's the third contributing factor yeah that's
a huge point actually and I have watched videos
as well in which I'm completely lost because
the person knows what he's doing, but I'm like,
what's even happening here, right? So I was not
the kid that used to get it at school. When they
were, man, and my daughter suffers from this
as well, but when they were giving the instructions,
I was thinking of something completely not related.
And when the teacher was giving the instructions
and it was oral stuff. And when they were giving
the instructions, I was like somewhere else.
And they finished giving the instructions and
I was like, what the fuck just happened? What
happened again? And yeah, I never get things
at first. You know, there's other people I see
around and they catch it right away. Explain
it once, they get it, not me. Man, it's tough.
So I guess I try to explain. I don't know how
people find my tutorials. I think they're not
that, because you don't know what level your
audience is, right? You don't know if they're
elevated or if they're up here or down here.
So you have to keep it right in between, right?
Not go all the way here because no one's going
to get it, but, you know, cover everyone basically,
right? Yeah, I noticed that when I share videos
in the NeoVim subreddit, the reception tends
to be a bit worse than on YouTube. Oh, Reddit.
The subreddit is trash, man. There are just bad
people there, always. I also believe that it
might be because people who are in the Neovim
subreddit, they are so advanced and very passionate
about the long -term crack, very crack Neovim
users. And then on YouTube, you have a lot more
beginners who are just trying to find the first
tutorial ever on Neovim. Those people probably
haven't signed up to the subreddit yet. So, I
think... Those people who have been using NeoVim
from day one, they might not appreciate an intro
video as much as someone who just comes across
it for the first time. Have you had bad experiences
in the NeoVim subreddit? Have you gotten in dramas
there? No, not really. I try to avoid that. But
I just noticed that when I share a video there,
the first... moment it gets downvoted most of
the time quite a lot and then over time like
it sort of picks up you know and i wonder like
why does it always get downvoted like the first
one hour or so it just gets downvotes like 60
and 50 it goes down 80 yeah at the end then it's
95 positive but why is it always like getting
down at the beginning like other people who are
just you know have no life are always 24 7 in
the subway and just download everything that
they don't like i don't know but yeah it's just
a pattern that i that i noticed and it's very
different to youtube on youtube it's overwhelmingly
positive still still that's something that i
wonder as well because we're pretty small you
have 7 000 i have 8 000 subs it's just nothing
just people that really like us Follow us, right?
We don't have haters. I don't have haters in
my comments. Some of them show up sometimes.
And I just make fun of them. I just play along.
It's fine. It does not affect me at all. But
we're really small. But once you're big enough,
like Tio. Do you follow Tio? Tio. Tio. He showed
up in Prime sometime. Let me bring him up here.
Tio. This guy. Have you followed him? No. You
don't follow him? Once you're huge, a huge channel
like that, man, you're going to get a lot of
hate. He was involved in some drama recently.
What was it about? GPT -5. He talked about GPT
-5 too quick because he went into the, I don't
know, OpenAI headquarters and tried it there,
created a video that it was awesome, that it
was the best. So he got a lot of hate. Then he
created this video that it sucks that he jumped
into conclusions too fast. But man, people in
the comments and in Twitter get wild. But he
has a lot of subscribers. Let's see how many
he has. 500 ,000, right? So if we ever grow that
big, it's not going to be the same. I think it's
going to be... Yeah. It's... There's going to
be haters. Way more careful at that point. Yeah,
you have to think. But also, it's a very fine
line because if you're too careful and you never
speak up, speak your opinion, then why would
anybody follow you, you know? That's very tricky.
Yep, exactly. If you don't have your own opinion
and you stand by it, yeah. The problem is when
people feel that you sold out. Yeah. I guess.
They're not going to forgive that. Yeah. Like,
they thought that he sold to OpenAI and that
he's an OPI shill, whatever they call it, right?
So they didn't like that at all. He created this
video and, yeah, drama. But is drama bad for
you? Like, subscribers keep going up, right?
If you create drama around stuff, are you going
to lose all of your audience? I don't know. Or
is it going to keep increasing? Right? Yeah.
Like there's no bad publicity, maybe. Yeah. Again,
this is a super fine line. Yeah. It is. I think
at the end of the day, what I worry about is
what do I want to be known for? You know, I want
to talk about things that I care about. I genuinely
want to help people. And, you know, I want to
share what I've learned about NeoVim and CLI
tools and that kind of stuff. I want to share
it with people and hopefully it improves their
workflow in the way it improved my workflow.
And I want to talk about things that I'm passionate
about. So, I don't know. That's the most important
thing for me. To be true to what I want to be
known for. yeah like white so serious said in
the comments right now pirate software have you
seen that drama have you seen what's going on
there haven't followed it no man it's brutal
it's wild hold on let me see you just see videos
and all over the place look at this i'm just
i just typed pirate software right now well just
i just ruined but all of the videos that i see
are like this man like life ruined liar look
at this and this is on the main youtube page
you know liar a total unfinished disaster this
is a game that he was creating um hate here in
the shorts you see hate everywhere pirate a noob
criticism not welcome liar nipple baby this video
is horrible i watched it and i was like what
the hell is this uh but look this is when the
internet turns against you completely and man
it's it's not his videos this is just hate look
at all this what did he do what was the rules
games just be careful if you're gonna say something
about games we're not big enough right but Oh,
fuck. I said something about Silk Road. I hope
they know. No, but... No Silk Road. No, it's
not that. Evangelists. It's that not. It's that
he is not in favor. What is it about Why So Serious?
If you can type it in the comments to let us
know what it's about. But this is my understanding.
Let's wait for the comments. But he didn't support
that Stop Killing Games initiative. There's an
initiative that is in favor of not... old games
so that old games continue to work, basically.
So that if you buy your game, let's say Unreal
Tournament, you remember that game. It was an
old game. So if you bought it, you can still
play it till this day, right? And there's a lot
of games that don't allow that to happen because
they run on servers. And once they say there's
not enough traffic on the servers for online
games, they're like, we're not going to keep
the server up. Just the game dies. What they're
after is, okay, you can kill the servers, that's
fine, but give us the code. Let us host the games
ourselves so we can still play them because they're
part of the history, they're part of the culture,
so they just want to keep playing the old games.
The games that you played as a child, they want
to play them with their kids, right? And he was
against that. He was against that, and man. It's
an emotional topic for... nostalgia is a big
emotion yeah yeah but i see and man the videos
are horrible it's it's tough so i don't i wouldn't
want to be on that spot but look at the amount
of subscribers that he has right 2 .25 million
subscribers is he going to get cancelled is he
going to continue are they going to keep increasing
what's going to happen is there bad Is there
bad publicity or there's not? Is this bad for
him? Maybe it makes him feel bad, but is his
channel growing? Is it making him more popular?
What's going to happen? I don't know. So when
you operate at that level, it's different. So
I don't know. Might be good for him in the end,
but probably a stressful time at the very least
for him right now. Yeah, stressful. He's losing
daily subs around 5k a day. Yeah. So. I wish
I could afford to lose 5k subs. Yeah. 8k and
I'm done. Yeah. So Hendrik, really appreciate
your time. Guys in the chat, thank you for being
here as well. So mainly to you, Hendrik. Thank
you very much, man. I'm going to be editing this
video, leaving the timeline. That's what takes
most of the time. And I'm going to be publishing
the video. Any final words before we wrap it
up? Man, it was super fun to be here. Thanks
for the invitation and I really enjoyed it. Yeah,
thanks to you, man. Hope to see you soon again.
Maybe we can do something with Tilvan. Let's
think about something and let's come up with
a collaboration or something, right? Talk about
stuff like this. I think it could be sick. Yeah.
Yeah. all right thanks everyone bye cheers take
care everyone