One thing I wanted to mention, actually, I have
this kind of newsletter that I've been running
for some time. So I basically ask people to share
about their workflows and their .files, their
setup, what they use and how they use it, and
their Vim config. Oh, I see that guy Ian Simmons
there. That is emptyful, but he's cheap. And
he doesn't pay for the membership in YouTube.
So that's why he's not commenting right now because
he's cheap. But I know that guy. He's in Discord.
Awesome. Yeah, that's the idea. It's kind of
ironic because I make a lot of videos about Vim,
but I'm not like Vim everywhere. I don't like
use my car with emotions. It sounds beautiful,
man. I stopped being interested in analog stuff
versus digital stuff for some reason. If you're
looking for a keyboard, go buy Kinesis. It's
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So don't go yet. Yeah, and sponsor him. What
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let's get started with this chapter then. We
have a guest today, Adib. How's it going, man?
Good, good. Doing great, man. How are you? I'm
doing good as well. It's Sunday, what, August
17th. It's what time is it where I'm at? 11 a
.m. Where are you at? Do you want to share that
or you want to keep that private? nothing is
private we don't care everybody knows everything
anyways so it's uh 12 p .m here also sunday i
live up in nashville our nashville area so yeah
12 p .m oh okay i'm in guatemala by the way which
is below mexico central america so um yep now
um basically this call is just to get to know
you well People that follow me already know you
because our content is quite similar, right?
So you have a YouTube channel, right? So you
mentioned sharing who you are, basically, a little
bit about you. Sure. So my name is Adib, as you
can tell. I use my name on all my social things.
Yeah, I'm originally from Lebanon, actually.
I'm not even American. Oh, I was going to ask
you about your name, because it's not too common.
If you see my name, it's like, where's this guy
from, right? It raises the question immediately.
And I saw your name as well, and I was like,
okay, so it's Lebanon, right? Yes, sir. How do
you say your name? Christian. I'm not Christian.
Well, religiously, I'm not Christian, but my
name is Christian. It's crazy, I know. Christian,
that's how you say it. You can call me Link.
I have decided that from now on, I'm just going
to call myself Link. It's easier. So yeah, that's
fine. That is easier actually. Yeah. I think
Christian is not bad. Yeah. I don't like it too
much to be honest, but whatever. So yeah, I'm
originally from Lebanon. I've been here in the
States for like 10 years now. And I work as a
software engineer for a company. in texas and
married i have two kids and i live outside of
nashville i've been doing youtube for probably
a year and a half or something um yeah i'm not
like super crazy active like most people on youtube
but i try to kind of upload every couple weeks
two weeks maybe or something and most of my content
is about like neo vim and terminal things cli
tools and stuff like that nerdy things i guess
i like productivity and like how can i be productive
in the terminal i guess you can maybe yeah think
of it that way i tried doing some videos about
like programming languages go and whatever and
i got bored and so i went back to like cli stuff
and i think i'm gonna change as well like uh
i'm also thinking about like changing this whole
um idea uh -huh Soon, actually. Maybe we can
discuss this sometime in this call. But yeah,
I'm debating whether I continue with this or
not as like this format and this type of content.
But yeah, that's who I am. Oh, okay. So what
are the plans if you want to share them with
us? Like no more programming stuff, more Neoven
focused or what have you thought about so far?
Yeah, it's kind of interesting. We're starting
right with this one. Well, here's where my head
is. I've been doing these videos, like NeoVim
videos and whatever, CLI stuff for pretty much
this whole time on YouTube. But everything is
changing with AI. We don't code the same way.
We don't care too much about the tools anymore.
AI is doing everything, and you're pretty much
just code reviewing. That's pretty much the work
day to day. um you ask cloud to do stuff or open
code or whatever and then it gives you a lot
of code and you go read it and say it's good
or it's bad essentially approved or not yeah
so um when it comes to tooling i don't think
it matters anymore and that's like the sad reality
of it like yes you can have the most amazing
new configuration on the planet but still like
i'm probably not gonna even use that much of
it i'm just gonna ask ai to do stuff right um
And so that led me to the idea that what do we
really care about then? Like if it's not like,
you know, how we are going to code the thing
or whatever tool we're going to use or whatever,
what actually matters. And I think it's more
like the theoretical side of stuff because you
can ask AI to do anything and it will try to
do it. But if you don't know what the thing is,
you probably will never be able to even use it
correctly. So I'm thinking about like what would
be useful for somebody to like learn. And it's
like, describing the thing correctly for example
you're building a tool or whatever a product
there's a thing you're trying to build but you
just don't have words for it because your theory
is lacking behind and you just know the code
like you're like a super golang developer who
can pretty much build anything but you don't
know the concepts like the ideas right like what
is i don't know there's a lot of ideas here but
like um Knowing the theory behind a thing, it
gives you the language to describe it. And if
you can describe it, the AI can build it. I guess
the gap is like, can you describe the thing you're
trying to build? And that's what I'm kind of
headed with this. I don't want to like keep talking
about like, here's the next tool to use and here's
how you can configure it. Because you can read
the docs and configure it. It's not magic. But
the magic is like, can you understand what the
thing is? Because if you can, then the rest is
just use the tools to build it. Yeah. So something
that... adapts more to the reality nowadays for
a lot of people like you mentioned a lot of people
use these tools to build everything they don't
have the knowledge maybe they don't know the
questions to ask they don't have the technical
background to debug to fix whatever issues they're
okay so something more holistic that includes
ai right as part of the process yeah so like
I work with a group of people as an example,
and we have like a team of developers and I'm
kind of managing and leading with them. One pattern
I find with like kind of less experienced engineers
is they're using AI and they're using AI to build
pretty much the whole thing. Like we have a big
product in development and the big challenge
is always like knowing why you're doing the thing
you're doing. You're building this feature like,
why do I use Redis again? What is that again?
As an example, like obviously this is a stupid
example, but the idea. So knowing what to use
and why to use it and where everything fits is
kind of more important these days than actually
writing the 10 lines of code you're going to
write because AI will do it correctly. You just,
you have to describe it. More like a product
manager kind of thing, product engineer or something.
But that has a heavy technical background, right?
Because you need to know. all of this stuff to
be able to make sure that it's correctly and
correct and fix it right which is uh or tell
it to do it better or yeah so knowing the concepts
will allow you to find the language to describe
it to ai that's kind of where i'm trying to get
with this instead of like here's another new
video here's like how to i don't know yeah here's
what a state machine is i don't know like here's
an example here's do you know what a state machine
is Here's how to think about it. Here's what
it is. Here's how to design it, whatever. And
then just ask AI to build it for you. But if
you know what it is, you know where to use it.
If you have different states, you need to represent
them. You need to make sure it's clearly defined.
Use a state machine, for example. If you don't
use state machine, you end up using like if -elses,
like a million ones. And so knowing these concepts
allows you to make the right decision, but you
have to know them. You have to learn the language
of what this thing is. And that's kind of what
I'm thinking about and what I think I'm going
to take this channel to. And there's a lot of
other amazing YouTubers, like Typecraft has been
fantastic with the new event thing. and then
it feels like redundant to try to make the same
stuff i'm like yeah he blew up he's doing fantastic
work and i really love his content and i think
it's pointless to try to make more stuff like
if he's doing a better job why should i repeat
myself like all i cared about is like showing
people how cool new of him is and how you should
use it and all that stuff but he's doing it so
what's the point yeah right yeah I'd rather direct
people to his content than actually trying to
do the same thing again. Yeah. What's the point?
Makes sense. Not that it's for money, obviously.
I mean, I have a job and I'm happy with my life,
right? It's not like make YouTube and sell monitors
and keyboards and whatever like people do. I
just like it and I feel like, you know, I want
to share what I know and connect with people
and all that stuff. So it's not really like a
business, at least for now. So yeah, teaching
things. so it's more people might be fun okay
so it's more like for sharing stuff um just sharing
what you know right it's a hobby like why did
you decide to start with youtube like what um
i don't know i guess it's i'm a very introvert
person i do not like public stuff but i found
it like work from home as i said i'm a dad with
two kids so i need to find new ways to connect
with people and stay up to date with stuff and
just have some fun with social things. And that
was the driving thing. And I remember like when
I started the whole YouTube thing, it was everybody's
excited about Rust. So I was like, let's do Rust
stuff. So I was like, okay, I'm learning the
language anyways, so why not talk about it? and
that's how the whole thing started it wasn't
like any like planned scheme to make a million
dollars and retire in some island it was just
like oh here's the cool thing people like rust
and i like rust let's make videos about rust
and then from there like went down the soul rabbit
hole yeah i've thought about the channel name
you know because your channel name is just your
name so yeah you can talk about whatever you
want in the channel name. Imagine you would have
chosen a different name, something like a Div
NeoVim or something, right? It would be tougher.
I actually have another channel called NeoVim
Mastery. It has no videos, nothing in it. It
has like 200 subscribers just because they know
me and they go there. I don't even have it here,
but the idea is... I tried it, and people started
subscribing. I'm like, I don't want to make just
new videos. It's cool. I'll just stick to this
one eventually. I'm not just interested in code,
and I didn't want it to be this specific thing
I want to make videos on. Because again, it's
not a career or anything. It's just a fun experience
for me. I don't really care too much. It's not
going to change my life if I have a billion.
subscribers i'm happy with it without it essentially
okay and what is this about this neoven course
neoven mastery so yeah i actually long time ago
uh i kind of shared about it online i wanted
to make a course and it was actually i'm making
it as we speak but again a lot of things changed
i had to stop for a while i actually made a video
about it like my last video was an update on
this i saw it essentially um i Wanted to make
this course back when, you know, there's a lot
of hype around it. I was like, cool, let's make
this course. And, you know, maybe I can double
down on it and it will be a nice income. But
at the same time, it's like I can put all my
knowledge in it. It would be cool. But then life
happened. I got super busy. I had a second child.
And then I was like, priorities. I can't do that
anymore right now. So I had to pause for a long
time. And now I'm finally back on track. But
things will change a little bit. Originally,
it was like more. teaching you all the vim stuff
and then more like a new vim specific things
how to configure whatever and in my last video
i mentioned i'm gonna change this and more focus
on um like how to use vim as a like not like
vim vim like new vim but how to use the actual
tool and not like here's how you configure something
more like here's how to use the thing without
adding a million plugins you know like there's
a lot you can do and there's a lot of cool things
you can do that i probably don't remember a thing
but but it's it's like you can do a lot of stuff
and i think people like that for some reason
um there's a resistance in me like to even do
this project honestly at this stage but it's
more like i gotta finish the job kind of thing
because the industry is changing and people don't
really care i mean some If you're like on Twitter,
you probably will care because that's the hype.
But in reality, in practice where people actually
get the job done, they don't really care about
new event, unfortunately. Like people just want
to code and move on. If you have like a job,
right? If you're on YouTube, you want to make
sure like you're saying it differently. Yeah,
it's different. Or on Twitter or Twitch. But
if you're like just have a job and you're getting
your job done and you get it back home and take
care of your family or whatever, you really don't
care about them or new event. It's fun, but it's
that. That's where it ends. And so I think I'm
going to make a course that teaches people how
to be productive with it, how to do stuff with
it, and how to use the tool correctly and whatever,
mostly based on the documentation and some of
the experiences that I've gained. But that's
where it ends, actually. It's not going to even
have a deep, in -depth thing on how to configure
NeoVim and here's all the 20 plugins you have
to install and all of that, because you're going
to have new plugins every couple of weeks. More
like the ideas. you need an rsp you need a search
tool you need like a get to thing you need the
file picker like yeah like tree sitter whatever
like the big things that you care about conceptually
and then pick whatever plugin you want you can
use snacks for example to search stuff or you
can use telescope or you can use whatever fugitive
or like whatever get signs like there's a lot
of tools that does the same thing but you need
to know what the tools are first like what is
the thing you're trying to add to your editor
essentially yeah so that's how far it will go
and then obviously the vim things from like before
you even get there i remember my previous job
pretty almost nobody used neo vim i was the only
one if we if i needed to do a screen share i
was the only one there was one other guy that
used neo vim but All of the other guys, they
didn't care too much. And the company that I'm
working for right now, it's even worse. I use
Windows there. I don't even know what NeoVim
is. So it depends, I guess. It depends. Well,
if you're in the YouTube space, of course, NeoVim
is really popular. So we all talk about NeoVim
and all that stuff. But in the real world, I'm
not sure. Based on my experience, not too many
people, but it depends. I guess that in Silicon
Valley, there's more people. I have no idea.
um yeah i would kind of question that as well
like um i've worked with people who worked at
apple or and you know we had like we usually
used to like uh do the spare sessions where like
we code something together or work through something
like a pair programming or whatever and like
the guy would ask me like hey let's uh you know
let's open up your ide and let's go through these
things and like okay and then i open up new then
like what the hell is this man just open up some
real thing so People like, yeah, not everybody.
I mean, yeah, it's this sad thing. Like if you
work from home for like a startup with like 20
people, you can do whatever you want. But like,
it feels to me that there's more like things
people agree on, on like a larger scale companies.
Like let's just use VS Code because you're going
to have Copilot for free. Or like use Cursor
because the company is going to provide that
or whatever. That's why I think learning Vim
motions or learning how to use the Vim style
of moving and other things is more important
than using U of M. It won't get you enough followers
if you do it that way, but it's still going to
be great, right? I used JetBrains for the longest,
actually, before the AI excitement, before that
happened. And so I used Vim motions in it, and
it was perfect. it has everything i need and
i never need to touch the mouse and it was fast
and it was good enough right but it's not new
of him but it was great actually i think like
jet brains with their lsp is like way way better
than any vim or neo vim or vs code the rlsp is
fantastic so them work there that's everything
i needed and where's your heart is it still any
of him or it's going away from any of them I
still use NeoVim. I think these days I'm like
mostly living in like open code and like whatever,
like plot code. And so, and I also, the company
I work for, they provide like cursor as well,
or like they pay for it. So I'm living between
those two for like the big projects I'm working
on. Do I like cursor? No, I keep crashing my
computer, but it's, it has AI in it. And I wanted
to use AI the way I wanted to use AI. And so
I didn't really care too much. I wasn't like
depressed why I'm not using NeoVim in that case,
but I was more like it's getting the job done
and it has access to all the AI models I care
about and I can move fast. Obviously I have them
in it and all that stuff. So I'm not like really
far from it, but it's still, it's getting the
job done, I guess. Okay. And what do you still
use NeoVim for? for your personal stuff or when
do you use it yeah personal stuff obviously and
sometimes if i'm just like just full -on coding
without ai which happens a lot as well sometimes
um i just open up new them and start coding okay
well i i feel like i'm using cursor like as if
some people like use chat with ai Like, you know
how we open, like, Raycast AI or whatever AI
and just you chat with it and I get answers?
That's how I use Cursor. I, like, just open it
and, like, okay, I need to do this coding thing
with AI. Open this thing and let's send the prompts
and see what happens and then review it and then
accept it and then move on. But then if I'm locked
into I want to code stuff, I can just open up
NeoVim and then do my work. It's a lot of tools,
but I still haven't found any, like, great integration,
like, AI integration inside of NeoVim. There's
a lot of cool things, but nothing really comes
close to Cursor, unfortunately. What is this
about? Is this the one that was created by one
of the guys in the Primogens crew, right? And
how is it? Is it any good? I've seen it, but
I'm like, okay. So is it like cloud code? Does
it have access to your repo? Yeah. So this is...
It's similar to Cloud Code, but you can change
the models for anything you want, not just Anthropic.
You can use OpenAI, you can use whatever. And
I think the reason why I like it the most is
because it feels like NeoVim. The people who
build it, they use NeoVim. So they build it with
the idea that we want this to feel familiar.
That's why I like it. It just feels like you're
still in NeoVim in a way. Even the status bar
has a similar format to the Lua line or whatever.
That's why I like it. Pretty great. Like it works.
It does. Like the output is identical to whatever
plot code gives you. I mean, they're both talking
to some API and they're both giving you the same
outcome. This one feels more intuitive to me
personally, but you know, so kind of the same
really. Okay. Do you prefer this over cursor
or you prefer a cursor still when it comes to
AI? It depends. uh if i'm doing small things
with ai like by small i'm like um changing a
couple files fixing something like something
not crazy big i use cursor if i'm using like
if i want to build like a full feature and then
have it do the whole work i use like open code
or cloud code because they have like bigger context
um okay i think so at least i mean think about
it like cursor is like a middle thing between
you and anthropic so i'm just cutting this off
whenever i need to work on something that requires
more context i guess deeper integration with
their apis got it okay now um everybody show
shared your youtube channel here um let's see
Yep. I was looking at the different videos. Awesome
stuff. Okay. I'm going to leave this in the video
description so people can go and subscribe. I
guess all of the people that follow me are already
in your audience because it's pretty similar
stuff that we talk about. So how old are you,
by the way, if you want to share that? Can you
guess? You're around my age, I would assume.
I'm 38. So you must be around there. Yep. I'll
be 38 in like two months. Oh, yeah. 38. Okay.
Okay. And have you considered or do you do sponsor
related stuff in your videos? or what are your
thoughts on sponsorships on videos have they
reached out i got a lot of emails about these
people like these people reaching out and like
hey do this whatever and i got a lot of options
like this um even that like there's like a famous
teaching company that reaches out for people
a lot everybody makes videos for them nowadays
oh the brilliant one guys yeah But I just don't
want to be, I don't want to have like the feeling
that I'm forced to do something for someone.
Again, this is not my career. This is just fun
for me and I don't really care. The only video,
sponsored video I've ever made was on this keyboard
like I have. And I made it because I really like
the keyboard and I really like their company.
Like I would just keep sharing videos about it
and photos and whatever because I think it's
fantastic. The Kinesis keyboard. That's the only
video I've ever made like sponsored. And I don't
think I will ever make any sponsored videos.
I just don't care enough. It's not changing my
life. It's too much pressure for me to make something
cool for someone. I just want to hit record and
just talk about stuff and move on. Even if you
see my editing, it's just very basic. Cut the
thing and put it close to each other and upload
it. I don't really care, man. If you see how
I do things, you'll laugh because most YouTubers
will spend hours and days trying to... polish
something um i would i have only like maybe five
hours on saturdays every other week to just record
and edit and upload that's how much time i have
because i'm i'm busy right with family and life
and whatever and so i'll have to be on saturday
i have to record i have to edit and usually in
like real time almost um and then the thumbnail
takes me like 30 seconds just like put whatever
on whatever and just upload just to make sure
there's a picture yeah so the whole thing is
like four hours on every other saturday and i
just upload them i don't really care enough so
like for sponsorship to be useful you kind of
have to work more on that i don't have time to
do any of that stuff like make a desk setup video
that takes you three months to build or whatever
or like a day in a life that requires three months
of their own life one day of a life yeah i don't
think it's useful for me and yeah i mean unless
i have like three million subscribers and whatever
i don't think it's adding any value okay makes
sense and what does your family your partner
think you know of you doing youtube videos well
my daughter likes to watch me she's three years
old and she every time she sees me on tv she's
like daddy daddy i'm like oh great that's the
whole point they like it i mean they encourage
me and they support what i'm doing um yeah it's
fun oh okay okay awesome now going back to the
neovim stuff this is something that i ask all
the people you remember how your first experience
was when you tried the motions for the first
time right the first time you opened it and you
were like what is this crap like did you wonder
Why do people do this? Did it feel natural? How
long did it take you to? That was 2012. Very
long time ago. And it was me and a friend of
mine. We were working at this startup and we
discovered Vim before new Vim was fancy. And
we start playing with it and we both learned
like Vim motions and some Vim things and we start
using it. It was pretty messy. Like I got like
on and off. so many times because i just couldn't
really figure out what the heck is this and it
was very confusing and back in the days like
we you know like sublime text was the thing and
it wasn't like vim or i guess anything else so
we had to switch to a terminal and learn the
whole thing and it was very very messy and i
gave up quickly actually and took me some time
later to kind of jump back in um it wasn't easy
at all it was actually terrible Yeah, it took
me like three times as well. I remember I was
following a tutorial, right? And you SSH into
a device and they ask you to open BIM and edit
a file. And it's like, why? I wonder like, why?
I hate this. I just quit. I couldn't quit, of
course. But you somehow quit. And I switched
to Nano and I used Nano on servers for a long
time. I tried it like three times. I didn't like
it. And I don't know, eventually it did. It did
click. And now this is what I like the most.
But I guess it's really common, right? And there's
some people that say that it's not difficult
at the beginning. I'm like, no. Because if you
say it's not difficult, they're going to feel
dumb. And they're going to be like, oh, so I'm
dumb. And the problem is, you know, the problem
is that it's really difficult, right? Yeah, it
is not easy. I mean, especially if you're early
in your career, you're pretty much trying to
figure out what code is. And then now you have
to figure out what the motions is. Like, what
the hell, man? Let me just code first. Yeah.
Leave me alone. Takes time. I think for me, the
biggest breakthrough happened when I started
using LunarVim. I was still like in the VS Code
world years and years ago, and then I discovered
LunarVim. And I was struggling with configuring
the thing in the first place. That's years ago.
And I was like, I need something that makes this
easier. I don't want to keep fighting the editor.
I want to code, but I don't want to use Vim,
but I can't just keep doing this. I don't understand
any of it. That was years ago. And so I discovered
LunarVim and I was like, this is amazing. It
just made my life so much easier and it works.
And I lived with LunarVim for many, many years.
And actually one of the earlier videos, two years
ago or something. I was like, I actually talked
about LunarVim as like my main coding thing.
That was, yeah, one of the early videos. It helped
a lot because it had all the features. It felt
a bit familiar to VS Code in a way, back in the
days. And it was like, okay, this works. Let's
use that. I did use Vim inside of VS Code for
also many years. And again, JetBrains. And then
eventually I kind of landed on Vim. I had to
switch between multiple editors for a while because
of something I don't know how to use or something
that didn't work or I'm just fighting it and
I have deadlines and I can't keep fighting the
editor and finish the code first. Eventually
it landed somewhere nice, but it took a long
time to get it to a place where it's stable.
Yeah, it consumes way too many hours, right?
Yeah, and if you have family and you're married,
you shouldn't be doing that. No, but you will.
You do it anyway. It's painful. Yeah. It is.
And would you recommend someone starting then?
Going with the distro or going with your own
config from scratch? If you have time and you're
not like, actually like even before that, I would
recommend you continue using whatever you're
using, just add Vim to it, like VS Code Vim plugin
or JetBrains Vim thing. Start that way. until
you get familiar with what Vim motions is all
about. And then if you have the space to actually
invest more time to learn actual Vim, get a distro
or something, like a lazy Vim or something like
that. It's fantastic. Because the thing is, you
don't want to end up in a spot where you're just
not productive at all. You have deadlines, you're
stressed, and you're trying to figure out what
the heck is Vim. You just want to have the productivity
to kind of continue to flow. and then gently
switch to full -on vimconfig custom one if you
jump all the way to like custom vimconfig your
productivity will fall you're going to be frustrated
you're going to be like what the hell is this
i just want to go back to whatever thing i was
using because i can code you want to avoid that
trap so you can kind of gently get there that's
just my experience um if you have a lot of time
and you just you know you're just able to do
that then do it however you want them custom
them thing would be super fun but you want to
make sure you continue to be productive as you're
doing so yeah it's not about the vim config it's
about the productivity that comes from it so
really if you can use like not bad plus plus
and be productive that's fine just get the job
done essentially it's not the tool it's the outcome
of it it's fun to talk about gets everybody excited
but it's not the point essentially Yeah, I started
with Obsidian. Obsidian was my note -taking tool.
You don't need to configure too much in Obsidian,
right? It's just a tool to write notes. I enabled
my motions there, and I liked them. But then
when it came time to configure all of that in
Neovim, man, it was months. It was a lot of time
that I... how to invest into understanding what
all of that LSP. I was like, what the hell is
an LSP? Like in LazyVim, it has thousands of
options, the distro. And it's like a lot of different
key maps. And it's like, it's a lot. But I don't
think there's shortcuts when it comes to NeoVim.
You will suffer. You will have to. I tried Obsidian
and I gave up and I just moved back to Notion.
It's my summary of this whole thing. I don't
care enough about Obsidian and the months I need
to spend to figure it out. It doesn't sync with
my phone and I have to pay for it. And I mean,
I got Notion. It works perfectly fine everywhere.
It doesn't have the motions, but again, I'm not
like a heavy note taker. I just need something
that has bullet lists and works. So I don't really
like, yeah, I mean, I guess like. It depends
on your mindset. A lot of people like Obsidian
because it's a Markdown -based thing. You can
never lose a file or whatever. You can put it
anywhere. But if you think about it, I've been
using Notion since Notion became a thing. I never
lost anything, never had a problem. It works.
I'm not worried about them taking my files and
giving them to someone. everybody have our files
anyways it's not like yeah mine are in github
in a private repo but it's it's just like yes
honestly like it's over overly like cautious
person i'm like dude they know who you are and
where you live it doesn't matter unless you're
trying to do something bad stop being obsessed
with this because it has no value like they know
everything so just do the right thing and keep
going man um this is why i'm like i give up on
the idea of like use obsidian and make sure the
files are stored on my local uh nas here and
only i can access it's not the internet and i'm
like dude i have gibberish i have a list of like
go buy groceries kind of thing and i don't take
like i don't have task tools task apps tools
or anything just like if i remember it great
if i don't who cares that's kind of approach
these things these days yeah yeah i don't care
about it too much either because My notes are
in GitHub because I just, I keep them there for
version control. In case I mess something up,
I just want to have the ability to go back in
time, right? But they're in GitHub, so they're
not private anymore. It's just whatever. Before
I had them in Google Drive, right? So that's
even worse or the same, right? So what's the
point? Now, I have never used Notion, but...
Have you heard about this tool called Kind of
Vim that allows you to use Vim motions anywhere
on your Mac? Yeah, I heard of it. A friend of
mine made a video about it like a week or so
ago. Yeah, I've never tried it. It's kind of
ironic because I make a lot of videos about Vim,
but I'm not like Vim everywhere. I don't like
use my car with the motions. I just like... The
most amount of typing happens for me when I'm
coding. that's it the thing for me is like the
less typing the better that's the whole point
like the less i have to do things the better
and so i don't take a lot of notes i don't like
um navigate the million things all day long i'm
pretty much either in my coding editor my browser
or my chatting thing with my colleagues that's
it that's all the things i use right terminal
already has them and if i have to kind of do
commands and whatever i can find a way to do
it The browser has some Vim plugin that I have,
kind of allows me to scroll and whatever. But
I don't need like Vim to use like Spotify. I
just want to play the song and keep going. It's
not an obsession, right? Like the mouse is terrible
and you should probably like stop using it. But
it's not like if you use the mouse, you're going
to like have a heart attack and die, right? It's
just a mouse. I tried to go with a mouseless
approach. Nah, I just went back to the mouse.
There's no point. I went back to the mouse. I
still have the application installed, but man,
I rarely, oh, from time to time I remember, oh,
I have that installed and I bring it up and I
click somewhere. But I don't know. I just went
back to the mouse, I think. Have you ever like
talked to someone who uses like their laptop
mainly for work without like an external thing
or whatever, external screens, like just a laptop
that's not working? Yeah. They usually rarely
care about them. or anything else they just work
because you have a trackpad very close so you
don't really need to figure out gymnastics to
do anything you can just use the trackpad go
up and down and select quickly so the the valve
that you get from like some of it at least you
get from using them it's not even there because
you can just jump anywhere with a simple scroll
with on your trackpad it's still very comfortable
so in a way like it depends what makes you comfortable
physically like if you use a crappy keyboard
and you try to use them you're probably going
to end up in the same problem. The keyboard is
going to hold you back because now you're doing
this and it's very difficult to type. There's
a lot of things behind just using Vim, right?
The point is to be more ergonomic, comfortable,
fast, and whatever. Cool. Yeah, if you have those
tiny keyboards like that and then you try to
use that to code, it just can't defeat the purpose
because it's still very uncomfortable. The 34
keys keyboard, the Ferris sweep. It's super cool
for gaming because all you need is five buttons
just to move forever. But if you're actually
writing and typing, whatever, it's not going
to help you. You need something comfortable.
And if you have something comfortable, then what's
the point of overdoing it? The point is to be
comfortable, right? Yeah, that kind of thing.
Yeah, I've said it all the time. There's a guy
in Discord that swears by the Ferris sweep. And
I'm like, no, man. It's the flat thing. Yeah.
Well, and the things here, it doesn't have the
row, the outer row for the pinky, right? So you
lose a lot of modifier keys. So that's too much.
Too much stuff just to be able to type an uppercase
letter, in my opinion, right? Now, which keyboard
do you have, by the way? You mentioned it's the
Kinesis, right? Is it the one that Prime uses?
Yeah, I got this one. I don't know if you can
see it. Yeah, I see it. okay um yeah it's the
kinesis 360 pro or whatever it's like a bluetooth
version i have two of them actually um oh really
what in case this breaks i have another one in
case the company fails i still have another one
okay just in case this is supposed to last me
my whole career after this my career is over
i don't no longer care but i have to just in
case um yeah i think this is the best keyboard
on the planet i don't think you can make anything
better that's It ends there. It doesn't matter
what you have. This is the answer. Yeah. Have
you tried other ones? Which other ones have you
used? I have not, but I've landed on something
that makes my work experience extremely comfortable.
That's why I don't need to. It's not because
the Prime makes videos on it, because there's
a curve thing here. That is the selling point.
And because it has an angle, so that's everything
you need, really. Just like a curve that allows
your fingers to get to whatever thing you want
to get to. And yeah, it's angled enough. I mean,
that's cool. That's cool. But the thumb cluster
is not as comfortable as these ones. No, it is
not. And I just use two keys now. I just use
these two. That's it. I don't use the other ones
anymore. That's the whole idea. The ones here,
both keyboards have the same thing. But I can
pretty much reach any of these ones here super
quickly without having to do any gymnastics.
Once my hand is on the keyboard, I don't have
to move anything. And that's really the point.
Oh, is it easy to reach the ones on the outer
side? I have always wondered about that keyboard
because the thumb cluster doesn't seem too easy
to reach. Yeah, I can reach pretty much anything
on the keyboard. That's the idea. Okay. So an
ad for the company. If you're looking for a keyboard,
go buy Kinesis. It's the best investment in your
life. No, wait. They have to sponsor me before
you go and buy it. So don't go yet. Yeah. And
sponsor him because it's just amazing. And what
about the switches? What type of switches do
you have? Because I had a problem with the Glove
80. I had the red. I don't know about keyboards.
Just so you know, I don't know about keyboards.
This is the first split keyboard that I bought
because I had pain in my forearm on the left
hand. And this helped. This fixed it. Now I have
pain in my fingers a little bit. It was worse,
but the switches were harder. I got the softest
switches that they offer, and that made it better
for me. Have you had any experience with switches?
I'm using the brown switches because they're
not too noisy and they're kind of soft enough,
I guess. There's no preference. I don't really
care. I don't like the blue ones. They're super
noisy and kind of difficult to press. I just
want something comfortable. I know there's like
red and there's like a million other types that
I don't really know how to say. I don't really
know, man. I'm using the brown ones. Because
that's the one that came with the keyboard. I
know it's like in the middle of this whole spectrum
thing, like blue, super noisy, red, super soft.
I need something in the middle. It felt like
the most like politically correct thing to buy.
Oh, let's get that one. Can you switch them on
that keyboard? Because then the one that I have,
they're soldered. You cannot switch them. I can,
I can. The other one, actually, I can easily.
This one, I'm not really sure because I said
I have two. The latest one that they sent to
me, actually. It's like the Pro Thumb something,
whatever. That one, I can do that. With this
one, I don't really know. I haven't tried, really.
But there's no need. It's just comfortable enough.
It's not too loud. And it doesn't press when
I'm like... If I put my hand on it just like
without doing anything, I don't want it to press
anything. I tried dread before. And when I do
that, I'm like, why am I pressing stuff? I don't
want to do that. I want something to hold my
fingers without like being super soft. really
you press you still press it because i put my
hands here right but i rest them in the in the
palm right so my fingers are just barely touching
it but i don't under press them even these switches
are the softest ones they're like really soft
and they're silent i don't know i like silent
switches i guess i don't like the noise to be
honest with you yeah i don't think i've tried
super silent ones i have the apple one it's like
The thin, thin, thin one. Oh, I love that one.
The Apple Magic Keyboard, the one with the Touch
ID. I like it so much. It's just great. It's
just not split. I can buy two of them and put
them next to each other, and that works. But
it's just like a keyboard that is like half a
mile long. And what happened? Because that's
my favorite keyboard as well, man. The Magic
Keyboard with the Touch ID. Not the one on the
laptop. I prefer the... That's the one. The external
one. Man, it's soft. I was fast. I was comfortable,
but my arm hurt. So if they would make a split
keyboard, man, I would be down for it. Let me
show you one that I just bought recently. Hold
on. Horn Mint Prototype. I don't know how this
one is going to be. They're not taking orders
anymore. But it's a prototype that they're going
to be releasing. I'm not sure when they're going
to send it. But it's a Korn, but it's flat. What
does Korn mean? Korn? I have no idea. I don't
know what it means. It's just a model of the
keyboard. I don't know where the word came from.
But this looks flat enough. Similar to like a
Magic Keyboard. I don't know how it's going to
be. I hope it's good. Well, let me know. It definitely
looks pretty cool. Yeah, but it has way too few
keys, right? This one is only 42 keys. Did you
ever get used to layers? Do you use layers? That's
interesting. I don't use a lot of layers on this.
You can program layers on this keyboard that
I have right now, the Kinesis one. You can do
a lot of things. i don't use layers but i do
have like my thumb clusters are not the default
ones i customized every single one of them so
i don't need layers essentially uh at least for
my use case um so i have like if i can show you
with this one this is like the other one so the
delete guy here is actually the hyper key and
allows me opens up pretty much shortcuts to everything
i want like switching between apps or whatever
just take a press of a button for me don't need
any fancy window manager or anything because
it's just hyper whatever the name of the tool
i'm using and then on the other keyboard like
this one here and then so i have like the combination
like you don't have like command shift p to open
up the command tool whatever uh on like vs code
or or even ghosty or whatever so i have a combination
like each one of those can be like two things
two major keys like a shift plus command or shift
control command something and that's how i use
it which opens up more possibilities for shortcuts
so i don't really think i need more options i
guess for me definitely a skill issue yeah it's
totally a skill issue i just don't know how to
use all the things man he's so rude this why
so serious guy is so rude no he's saying skill
issue because he always tells me skill issue
that the the ferris sweep which is the the keyboard
that has way too many keys i tell him no man
that's not that defeats the purpose of writing
because to type an uppercase letter he has to
type like a combination like do a lot of movements
just to be able to type an uppercase letter so
it's no and his his response is always skill
issue but um yeah and how do you feel when you
move from the Kinesis keyboard to your MacBook
keyboard. Do you feel a huge difference? I have
to take the keyboard with me. That's the problem.
So I bought the keyboard originally because I
have like pain in my wrist, right? It wasn't
just me trying to be cool or like I saw the Primogen.
I was literally medically in pain. Like I just
don't know what to do with this. Similar to actually
the Prime, like it's kind of similar story. I
play bass. And so when you play bass, you have
like this, right? It's just very bad. posture
for years it took me years to learn like you
can actually do it differently and so and you
type as well so it was just too painful um i
had to find the solution and this was it and
now i it's very difficult to type on anything
else not because it's cute it's just because
i can't physically can't so i have to take this
with me and if i can't take it with me i usually
never type or just like a couple things and emails
or whatever like a very few things i can't code
on a keyboard like that It's kind of sad, but
it is what it is. Yeah, same happened to me.
I used to see these keyboards and I was like
$400 or $500 in a keyboard. And I was like, no,
that's where I draw the line. And I was like,
no, man, no, I'm not going to buy one of those.
But pain eventually made me do it. So I didn't
have a choice either. Yeah, it's interesting
because it also took me like many years to learn
that I'm wrong. Because I was full of it. The
thing that I will never negotiate when it comes
to work is my chair, the monitor, and the keyboard.
I will invest a lot of money in those things
before anything else. The computer itself is
nice and everything, but the whole point is you
look at something all day long, it has to look
good. You type all day long, you have to be comfortable,
and you sit all day long, you have to be comfortable
in that way. And for me, it is expensive. Save
up for it or whatever, but try to... invest in
these three things just to make sure you're able
to do the job comfortably for a long time developers
sit for like eight hours a day yeah if you're
like a normal person and that's a lot of sitting
and you type for most of it it's a lot of typing
yeah if you have a bad monitor in front of you
like maybe like it's not bright enough it's not
sharp enough whatever your eyes start to hurt
Yeah, but when you're young, none of that matters,
right? Because when you're young, you can type
for hours. You don't know. A crappy keyboard,
a $10 keyboard, and you're like, man, what do
these old guys talk about? I'm in my prime. This
doesn't affect me, but man, hold on, wait. You
get older, you're going to start to feel it.
And have you tried the standing desks? Did you
try that? Yeah, I got one here. I don't use it
much as a standing desk, to be honest. It wobbles.
The first few days, right? Yeah. I just don't
find it very friendly. I even tried the walking
thing underneath it, like the treadmill. And
I was like, this is too much. I just can't do
it that way. So I stand up whenever I'm like,
just need to move a little bit. But it's usually
like just on the sitting mode. Yeah. We all try
because I suffer from back pain. I'm wondering,
do everyone that does this suffer from back pain?
I guess most of us do. But I tried the standing
desk as well. I bought it and I was like, okay,
this is the solution to my problems. First, it
was the chair. I bought, what was it? One of
the Herman Miller ones, Embody. And I was like,
that's going to be my solution, the Embody. I
bought it. It was not. Then I was like, okay,
the standing desk, that's the solution. I bought
it. I used it for, I don't know, a month or something.
I have not, I don't even have it plugged in.
With that, I tell you everything. I have not
used it. I just use it as a normal disk now.
But I guess physical activity is a huge key,
right? Because, man, it's... Yeah, it's a combination
of all of them. None of them will fix the problem.
It's all of them combined. the physical activity
you kind of need to do some stretching or workout
or whatever as much as you can if you have the
space i have like a yoga mat next to me and every
like couple hours i have like a routine that
i follow it's like 10 minutes some random app
that kind of shows me like a full body stretching
thing and i try to do it as much as i can um
this kind of helps but you know add to that a
good share good a table, like desk, whatever,
a good screen, a good posture, all that combined
will end up being a good experience. Yeah, everything.
Usually if you sit for a long time, there's like
a thing called sciatic nerve. Oh yeah, I suffered
from that, man. I was scared. There's stretches
that you can do to help. And I had to, you know,
figure out what to do with it for years. And
that was the solution, just posture, but then
the stretches and it works. You really have the
pain if you continuously do it. yeah and it's
true actually the older you get the more stretches
you need to do and less like crazy you just have
to do it essentially you have to stretch more
and yeah and do more intense physical activities
i don't know where i saw this but like i think
like some video somewhere it's like if you need
to have like a healthier body when you're 80
you kind of need to have like a ton of muscles
when you're like 20 something It's like able
to sustain a good health, healthy lifestyle when
you're older. I don't think I'm going to be that
healthy when I'm older, but I think like I'm
trying to keep things going, I guess. Yeah. Especially
at this age, you start noticing that stuff start
to fail already and you have to take care of
it because it's just going to get worse and worse,
man. It's like it's not going to get any better.
And I'm getting concerned. I suffered from the
sciatica. You know, one day, I don't know, it
just hit me and it didn't go away. And I couldn't
move my leg, the left leg. And I was like, what
the hell is happening? I couldn't even stretch.
I couldn't do yoga. I couldn't do anything. So
I was really scared because it was really painful.
It's horrible. So my wife told me, let's go to
swim because she used to swim and I didn't swim.
So now he forces me to go to swim two days a
week. That helped a lot. That, man. That was
the solution for me specifically. Right. But.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's always going to be just
some sort of a workout. Yeah. It's kind of ironic,
but like the majority of the problems, like we
see this, like this kind of problems end up being
like some sort of a workout that will help you.
Because you sit for a long time, the muscles
are not balanced. Like some of them are working,
some of them are not. So like the lower back
muscles will end up being weaker and weaker the
more you sit. And you kind of need to kind of
balance that. And the thing with your body, if
like one side is stronger than the other because
we sit weird or we move in a very strange way,
they compensate in a healthy way. You kind of
need to figure out a way to keep everything kind
of balanced or else the compensation will end
up hurting some other thing. And this is why
squats is super important because if you don't
do that, all the pressure end up being on a different
type of muscles, like lower back, for example.
You end up in lower back pain because it's doing
two jobs instead of one. Do you ever feel like
you don't have time to do exercise? It's like,
okay, so to me it's like addictive, the computer.
And it's like, I don't want to do that right
now. I want to keep doing what I'm doing. I'm
not going to waste 15 minutes doing stretches.
Hell no. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. I'll
continue. And I just don't do it. And I wish
I could be more disciplined to do it. Swim, yes,
I go, but that's not enough. I still have to
do stretches and all that stuff. Does it happen
to you? No. No? You do it? It changed with time,
but I treat physical activities as a debt. Just
like you have to eat, you have to work out. There's
no option. There's no way out of it. You'll die,
essentially. That's how I think of it. It's a
very extreme way to do it, but it works. But
I don't also like work many hours like before.
I work from eight to four. And then after this,
like my daughter is knocking on my door and like
I'm out of here. And then usually just go plays
in the gym with me. I have a garage gym. So I
go work out here right now in my house essentially.
And I don't have to go anywhere. And so that's
how I do it. It's just usually like 30 minutes
after work and then get to do a quick workout
and then come back and continue the other stuff.
But I try never to work. on anything after 4
p .m like code wise no videos no videos nothing
i never i never record i never do anything at
night a night like after 4 p .m they say 5 p
.m i guess adjust family and last time i don't
really like i love coding and i think it's super
fun and i had my share fair of like spending
days and nights coding but i don't think i ever
want to do it again that way because it ended
up being like a job instead of like it is a job
but it's end up being this like too much you
know like you have to keep some balance if you
like to do other things in life you have to give
them space yeah so yeah i'm trying to make this
channel grow and man it is painful and it is
a battle you know because people just tell me
oh man you just video after video after video
but they don't know that Man, it consumes hours
and hours and hours. It's a lot of work. So I
don't have too much of a balance at the moment.
And I don't like it. I wish I could have that.
I'm not disciplined to have that balance. Well,
I guess it depends on what's the reason. When
you start YouTube, you watch a lot of videos
to know what to do. But then at some point you
land on this idea that you're in it for the long
run and not for the quick win. Some people make
like two videos and get like a million subscribers.
Some people make a million videos and make two
subscribers and just whatever it is. Like if
you find the good content, a good like idea you
want to talk about, people will like it. But
one thing you forget about is like, it's not
just the YouTube thing. If you look at my YouTube
channel and my Twitter, they're very close in
numbers because just the people I talk to on
Twitter, they like to see the videos I make.
And it's just like real humans I'm talking to
and they know me most likely. And that's the
whole point. Obviously, I'm not putting the effort
that other people put in their videos. But for
me, it's like, it has to be fun. If it's not
fun, you're just going to give up very soon.
It becomes so difficult, and then two years from
now, I'm like, what the hell am I doing? I'm
out. You don't want this thing to become a second
job, essentially. You want to keep it fun, enjoyable.
whatever it is and don't like over like stress
on like the perfection side of it it just doesn't
matter people watch like two two minutes of your
videos even if it's like 15 minutes and they
get bored and move on attention span is too small
so like find the idea make it put it out and
then move on um there's a guy who started a channel
like i think two months ago you made a you had
an interview with him like i think the last one
is a young guy oh sylvan yeah i just i discovered
him by like by mistake and i was like i like
this guy i just want this guy to blow up because
i think he's the exact description of what i'm
trying to say have fun with the damn thing and
and don't give a shit about everything else put
the videos out there and move on and he's seeing
success because of this and that's the whole
idea it does not matter you don't need like a
five thousand dollars camera or two million dollars
microphone or just do the thing you want to do
and don't care yeah and he's doing fantastic
and i honestly wish him to like get like up there
with this because he's the ultimate description
of what if what if like a i kind of beat the
system kind of thing do the videos upload them
and move on and don't care much He's having fun.
I really like that. Yeah. That's the whole point.
Enjoy it. Like, enjoy the videos and just don't
obsess. And that's why I like his videos. I wish
him all the success, obviously, but that's exactly
what I'm trying to say. You fell in the trap,
the Vimati trap. So when he posts a short, you
watch it and sometimes it's like, what is this
kid talking about? And it's funny because he
talks a lot. Yeah. It's just fun. I mean, I don't
think like, I mean, some of the stuff, Some of
the stuff he shares is pretty much, if you read
the docs, you can talk about them. But that's
the idea. It's like a mix of sarcasm and some
useful information and opinion and stuff. And
it's not over. He doesn't think too much about
it. He just hit record, get it done, upload it.
And the thing is, he uploads a lot of videos.
That's the other side of the story, right? If
you are too noisy, people will notice. If you're
less noisy, your quality has to be extremely
high to catch attention. And if you're somewhere
in the middle, then you can be okay and you can
keep doing this for a long time, but you won't
burn out. The idea is just be somewhere in the
middle. You have a lot of time, obviously do
whatever you want. If you don't have a lot of
time, just be very careful with what you're doing
and intentional. And if you make videos that
you don't want to watch, then don't make them.
That's the whole point. If YouTube is your career,
that's a different story. But if you're making
videos with the intention at some point to make
it something, then make the videos that you would
like to watch. Don't make them just because you
have to make them. That's why I don't like sponsorships,
because now I have to make them. And I don't
want to have to make anything. I don't care enough.
I wish, for example, if Notion would reach out.
I don't use Notion, but if they would reach out
and tell me, hey. put a 60 second video, put
a 60 second ad in this interview. I'll put it.
I don't care. I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Even
if I don't use it, you know, but, but people
are still going to get the value out of this
interview, out of the video. Right. So yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I guess like the best ad you
can make is for something you actually use. Oh
yeah. Really? Like if I use like, for example,
Raycast, I love Raycast. Right. And I'm going
to fuse it in my own way. um i talk about a lot
in my videos because it's fantastic you don't
need to reach out to me to tell me like here's
some money to make videos i'm not gonna make
videos because i think it's pretty cool you know
if they give me money fantastic if not i think
it's still great and honestly i think people
are more interested in this genuine thing than
trying to like push more stuff on people oh yeah
buy this and subscribe to that why do you use
raycast because it's awesome man look at it it's
such a cool thing And that's the vibe that people
are interested in these days. And if you look
up the numbers and like, you know, the different
YouTube stats and whatever, the more authentic
stuff is the more, getting more attention than
the super crazy fancy stuff. Yeah. Normal people
saying normal things. Yeah. I have watched a
few videos in which you just watch an ad. I want
to guide that. It's a new channel that came out
recently. And he started no sponsorships. But
as soon as he started getting sponsorships, the
video was basically an ad, you know, a full ad.
I just felt disconnected. I was like, no, I know
that the new video is going to be an ad. I just
stopped watching it because I don't want to watch
someone. No, not another video. Well, but something
interesting happened with Fireship, according
to Sylvan, that. It was bought by a private equity.
I don't know. I have no idea if it happened or
not, but it seems like it. Well, the guy behind
Fireship is amazing, actually. If you watch his
interview, he's a very nice guy. I don't know
him personally, but I've seen his videos, obviously.
I don't see the problem with what he's doing.
I mean, yes, it adds, but it's his business.
This is how he makes money, right? So whether
he sells it or does ads or whatever, I think
at his level, honestly, he deserves it. If he
made like millions of dollars and now he's just
making ads, I'm like, who cares? He has a nice
family and he's having fun. Yeah. If he made
it all the way up there, that's what I told the
guys in Discord. If he made it all the way up
there, well, you know, whatever he wants. It
depends on where you're at in life, right? Let's
say that you have three kids. You need to send
them to college. You need money. You don't enjoy
doing YouTube anymore. It's like... whatever
i'll just sell the channel doesn't matter right
but if you still enjoy it it gives you enough
money you want to continue doing it why sell
it right so it depends on where you're at in
life at that point yeah i agree with the person
who shared the chat here you should probably
tell people like i'm doing that obviously but
still like i guess like at his level of like
A couple million subscribers and just a massive
channel. He can do whatever he wants, really.
AI stuff is obviously the trend now. Say AI next
to anything, people will like it. They'll watch
it because it's going to save them, I guess.
He's following a trend. And the truth is people
are watching his videos more and more because
of that. He's winning. We're not. That's the
point. We hate his videos because it's all AI,
but at the end of the day, we're watching it.
That's why we know he's winning and we're not.
Yeah, that's true. Now, you mentioned as well
that you play the bass. And in your videos, I
have noticed that you have a lot of instruments
in the background, not just bass, guitars. Are
they bass guitars? Is that how you call them?
I play guitars and I play bass and guitars. Originally
like a bass player. I played bass for many, many
years. And recently I picked up guitars, acoustic,
classical, electric, whatever. But if I'm playing
in a band, I'm playing bass. I haven't played
in bands for years. I had a death metal band
for the majority of my life. So just like a death
metal. It's the best. But then I, you know, with
kids and getting tired and whatever, I just had
to change things and I stopped doing all that.
So now I just play at home every now and then
whenever I can. uh but i do play music yeah and
we played a lot of like psychedelic music as
well swans and whatever it's just all kind of
things um yeah i do like music oh yeah what what
music do you listen to because i was talking
to who i was talking yesterday or the day before
i don't remember i don't listen to music anymore
because i just I'm not open to listening to new
music, but I'm tired of listening to the music
that I have listened for years, you know, like,
so I just don't listen to any music anymore.
Has that happened to you? I listen to music from
morning to night. So I'm like, I can't, I can't
do anything without music. But I guess like the
thing for me that changed is I come from a time
where you had to buy CDs back then. so like now
obviously you can pretty much access any music
you want and so for me there is list of bands
that i constantly like keep keep track of but
because of like things like spotify their recommendation
is decent i guess in some cases um i like bands
like opeth like um porcupine tree like pink floyd
like that kind of vibe uh um diamet hypocrisy
some weird crap like that like i had like Yeah,
a lot of different styles, I guess. And if you
play music, you probably have to listen to jazz
as well, like Jaco Pastorius or Victor Wooten
or whatever. It's a mix of things. There's no
specific recommendation. I actually think you
should listen to whatever you like to listen
to. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Do you listen to
that metal when you're coding? and you when i'm
coding i like to listen to kind of sometimes
electronics sometimes like um post -rock or something
like just vibey i guess oh okay okay okay just
like got like some playlist and i'll just go
with them whatever comes there i'll listen to
it there's nothing really specific i guess but
i do want to have some music going that's the
idea okay yeah I also, but then when one of the
songs that I don't recognize starts sounding,
it's like, no, I don't want to listen to that.
Let me go back to Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.
Play that one. Then it starts a radio and all
of my songs come in and it's just the same over
and over. And I don't know. I don't know what
to listen to. Yeah, they get like repetitive
with Spotify. If you play a certain type of video.
kind of music for a while they just give you
the same stuff over and over you kind of have
to be intentional to pick up stuff one thing
i've done is like if you pick up any song or
any playlist if you scroll all the way down let's
say you pick a band if you scroll all the way
down they show you like what other people are
listening to or oh i have also like section so
you find like new bands that are similar to whatever
you're listening to and you pick up new bands
from there that's something i've been doing to
kind of find new bands. That's a good idea. Interesting
idea. Now, for people that is just wanting to
know you a little bit better, you mind sharing
your background? Like how did it all start? The
IT related stuff, like did you study systems
engineering or computer science, however it's
called in your country? I did study computer
science. I actually studied telecommunication
engineering and then computer science. So a bunch
of stuff. I have a computer science degree. I
got it like 15, 16 years ago. Back when like
you learn Java. That's it. So yeah, I had that.
And then obviously I've been working in this
industry since my background, computer science.
Yeah. And telecommunications. So you have a heavy
networking background. yeah we used to like build
pcbs and connect and build stuff hardware stuff
i changed it though like a computer science when
i realized i probably won't have jobs in my country
it's mostly like software there's not a lot of
massive telecommunication companies but then
i fell in love with computer science obviously
and ended up being the thing for me i like tech
in general i like you know computer science is
great because you're kind of forced to learn
things all the time and if you're a learner by
heart it's like the perfect job for you you kind
of have to keep learning things if you find joy
in learning then that's like the perfect job
because every day there's a new thing so i keep
telling people like i never work i'm pretty much
always like getting paid to play with stuff with
the stuff that you like it's just super fun and
like oh i build this it works in front of my
eyes i don't have to wait for anything right
so it's like a game There is obviously this side
of it where it's not just a game, but in general,
it's really fun. If you found a job, that is
actually not too bad. So yeah, computer science
is fantastic. And you mentioned, well, no. Have
you had any issues with social media? Or do you
fall in the social media trap, like doomscrolling
Twitter and all of the other platforms? uh i'm
mainly on twitter and um youtube i i do scroll
sometimes when i'm bored but it's not like i
don't use like facebook i have facebook for selling
stuff on their marketplace but i don't really
have anything else like instagram or whatever
um i like sometimes like if i have downtime i
want to burn time just to scroll a bit but i
don't know like I guess I'm normal. It's not
like everybody else. It's not like superpower.
I never do scroll. I don't do anything weird.
Whatever. Yeah, but it doesn't go out of control.
It's something that, meh, it's manageable, right?
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I don't
know. Mostly it doesn't because I don't have
a lot of time free usually. I'm always either
with family or working. My free time is usually
very intentional and very like scheduled time.
You know, like when you end up, when you get
married, for example, or you have a partner and
you have kids, you don't have a lot of free time.
So you kind of have to schedule that free time.
If you have it, you have to be super focused
on what you want to do with it because you don't
have the leverage of getting like seven, eight
hours to do whatever you want. Like playing music,
you have to schedule the 30 minutes of you playing
something. You can't just like sit down like
before and do whatever you want for 20 hours.
It's insane. Okay. Now, before we jump into the
demo, because I just want to see your workflow.
Do you still have a little bit of time left or
you have to drop soon? No, I'm good with time.
Okay. There's a part in the video in which I
just want to, if you want to show your workflow,
because I can ask you all the questions like,
what terminal do you use? And well, then color
scheme. It's easier if you just show it and you
just guide us through your workflow, right? But
before we jump into that, I would like to ask
you just a few other questions, maybe something
more on the philosophical side of things or personal.
I don't know what the category is, but do you
have any thoughts on? Drugs and alcohol. I don't
do either. I never drink or never do any drugs
or anything. I haven't done this for many, many,
many years and I don't like them. Yeah. I don't
find anything that will mess up my brain in any
shape, way or form useful. That's my strategy,
my kind of idea behind this. Alcohol will make
me... do things that i would not do in normal
life and drugs is probably the same so and i
think like even scientifically um both of these
things have are proven that to harm you then
more than to benefit you so what's the point
yeah alcohol smoking smoking and alcohol and
drugs yeah my wife was sharing a study with me
about alcohol and how damaging it is to your
brain and everything Because it's just killing
you basically, right? You use alcohol to kill
stuff, right? To kill bacteria and all that stuff.
But the same thing happens to your brain and
your body and all that stuff. So I did it for
a long time, you know, and I'm not going to tell
people don't do it because who am I to tell them,
you know, what to do? But my general advice is
don't do it based on my experience. Yeah. The
way I think of it as well, it's like, If the
thing you're about to do is something you're
okay your kids doing, then do it. Good point.
That's it. It's just like, I want to do drugs.
I'm like, cool. Are you okay with your children
doing drugs? No, then don't do it. That's a really,
really, really interesting way of looking at
it. Yeah. It's like you care deeply about your
kids, right? Yeah. You want to see them as great
as humanly possible. It's clear that we have
a lot of boundaries around what you can say and
why you should say it and why you shouldn't say
it and being as correct as possible so you never
offend any human being ever. But then there's
things that are just too simple to think about.
It just doesn't require any magical thing or
any social thing or just basic human things.
If the thing you're doing is harmful for anything,
for you or for others, then it's probably not
a smart thing to do. Now, does this mean like
never touch alcohol ever? No. I mean, if you're
sitting at that, if you're with your partner
somewhere grabbing dinner and a glass of wine,
do that. 20 glasses of wine, probably don't do
that. But, you know, everything within balance
is decent. I mean, drugs, I don't think for me
is useful. I don't know a lot about it anyways.
I know people use like mushrooms or whatever.
I don't even know if this is considered drugs,
but I don't see a value of any of that stuff.
But generally speaking, I just don't have any
interest in them. Awesome. Okay. And what about
God? What about a supreme being? Do you have
any thoughts there? Yeah, I'm a Christian. I
think Jesus is God. That's it. The answer. Yeah,
I believe in God and I believe that Jesus is
God. I've been in so many different... where
I was an atheist for the longest, and then I
actually was a Satanist for some time as well,
a full -on Satanist, like crazy. Then I became
a Christian, and then I had experiences, certain
experiences that made me feel like this is the
way for me, and then I continued with it, and
that's how I live. And what happened? Do you
want to share, or do you want to keep it private?
It's not private, but that's like a three -hour
conversation. It's not like a... It'll be another
stream, but yeah, I have a story. Crazy. I actually
moved to America to go to a Bible school. I didn't
move here to become a software engineer and be
here. I moved to study the Bible and then ended
up being a pastor for a couple of years and then
got married and then things changed and then
I decided to get back to full -time software.
So yeah, the answer is yes, I do believe in God.
Interesting. Yeah. I was an agnostic too, way
long ago. Then I did drugs and crazy life, man.
I was completely lost. And God helped me, took
me out of where I was. That's what I think happened.
And I know that's what happened. That's what
I, yeah, I think that's what happened. But I
was not in the religion that I was raised in.
I was raised as a Christian, of course, because
I'm in Guatemala. Everyone here is. christian
but uh no some guy from india told my wife a
book that helped me no one here knows about krishna
and all that stuff but to me that that's what
clicked you know but uh yeah yeah i don't think
i'm gonna preach to you about like because this
is a this is a different conversation i think
what i'm gonna say is um You have your experiences,
I guess. And I guess if it's making you a better
person, continue with it. It really depends on
what you want to do. For me personally, as somebody
who tries to live as Christian as I can, potentially,
if you can even say that, there are things that
I would say that would make you feel like, why
are you imposing this on me? Why are you telling
me this? But I'm not going to do that here and
now. I don't think I should be doing that. But
it's a search, right? Every person is searching
for some truth. At some point, you land on something.
Most religions, if you go deep in them too much,
they try to tell you that we are correct and
everything else is wrong, whatever it is. public
thing is just telling you like oh we're all good
we're all same we're all leading to the same
thing and whatever because they're too scared
of telling you in your face that you're wrong
and i'm right and so they try to make it as cute
as possible by saying like we're all fine everybody's
fine everybody's correct that's bs that's not
everybody's correct no something has to be wrong
somewhere right um but that's kind of the where
the world is at the moment whatever religion
you end up believing in, if you go deep in it,
you end up thinking, like, I'm true and everybody
else is wrong. Is this correct? Is this not correct?
I have no idea, man. All I know is that when
I'm dead, I'm gonna meet a god, and I'm gonna
ask him, like, hey, show me the movie, man. How
the heck did this whole thing happen? And just
show me the whole thing. Season one, two, three,
to a million. How did this whole thing happen?
The earth, the people, the whatever. And, you
know, if I die and everything was wrong, like
the whole faith that i believe in is incorrect
then i'll die happy because like the faith i
believe in makes me feel peace so i'm like cool
man i use this i'm at peace all the time i guess
like i'm content yeah and great and if i die
and there's nothing like well i lived good so
it made me a better person right yeah and if
i die and there is something and that something
is whatever i believe in like dude i got it right
i did it yeah i was the one that was right it's
a win -win right and if i was wrong i'm like
i'm still happy so whatever yeah obviously you're
not always happy but the idea like it's an experiment
i guess it's just you live you try to be good
for others and good for yourself and you know
you live in a state where you're a useful human
being and then add value to your community and
go from there yeah okay now let's see So what
was what you got then? If you want to share your
screen and just walk us through your workflow,
you know, the IDE, your color scheme and all
that stuff. So my terminal is Ghosty. I've been
using it since it was released. Hold on. I'm
going to be stopping you from time to time. Sorry.
So why Ghosty? And what were you on before? I
used Kitty. for a long time. And I switched to
Ghosty when they released it. Mainly because
it just felt faster and it's very simple. And
it does everything you want it to do. I don't
have a deep opinion about what you should use
and why you should use it, as long as it renders
things correctly and it's fast enough. Alacrity
is great, which I also used for a long time.
I used iTerm. I used them all. This one feels
like kind of the... nicest it also renders the
font nicely and the colors like sharp so yeah
if you if you ever like look at different uh
terminals you see that the colors are usually
like kind of uh some of them are washed away
yeah yeah yeah that's why i like this one um
but they're all kind of fast like there's nothing
really like oh my gosh this is too slow like
what is this yeah using the stock terminal yes
it is bad if you're using like any of these things
they're all kind of similar in their own way
so um i don't think i have any special configuration
here um i don't usually use 20 pixels for font
which is for the stream i usually use Groovebox
that comes in it as well now yeah there's a myth
going around that Groovebox is for only for old
people would you say that is inaccurate Or would
you say that's true? No, it's not true. It's
just the color, man. It's just something that
looks good on your eyes. Yeah. Why so serious?
The guy in the chat also uses Groovebox and he's
young, but he has an old man soul, I guess that's
why. So you use it because it's easier on your
eyes, right? Do you feel high contrast themes
a little bit more painful? don't know i haven't
used i haven't used anything else since i forever
so i just find this to be easy to look at and
dark enough and i don't know like i've had like
other options like um i guess it's not the terminal
in terms of terminal i always default to this
one it's just consistent it works everywhere
the same way and the colors are easy to look
at and um yeah it's just nice i don't have a
lot of opinion about why i like this more than
the others there's a lot of other ones that are
super good like capuchin or whatever i just don't
like the blue like blue color like when you have
like a color that looks blue in a way like capuchin
or others i just don't like that look i like
this kind of blackish look that's why i use it
Yeah, and just very basic things. That's the
cool thing about Ghosty, actually. There's not
a lot you can do here. Just basic stuff. Yeah,
just some padding. It's a very basic configuration,
really. I use, obviously, Tmux. And actually,
it's interesting. I've been trying not to use
Tmux for a while. And I honestly turned it on
right now just to show you this thing that I
have here. But I've been... kind of working without
tmux for like a couple weeks and i have not missed
it oh really i have that about i've thought about
that too but what about sessions do you use tmux
sessions or no i obviously i have my own thing
here i can switch sessions or whatever i have
a small script i can show you my tmux so i got
like I don't even know where to look at. I guess
these two things. I can search for sessions and
search for Windows with these two things. I can
do this and then switch between Windows. And
then this, switch between sessions. I have one
now. That's as far as it goes. And then I use
some pop -ups sometimes, like this. Oh, for the
Lazy Kit? Yeah, but I also like... kind of stopped
using lazy git for a long time now i mostly either
use the terminal or use git tower which is an
actual gui yes unfortunately it's not like the
not like this uh -huh and it works and why did
you stop using lazy git i when i'm reviewing
code i'm usually using the mouse i'm scrolling
right like oh this is cool and that's cool uh
you know that's how i review code that's how
most people review call you're not like doing
this and moving things around. You're just reading.
And so I'm like, I have no problem looking at
a GUI if it works really well. And the whole
Git integration is amazing. So what's the point
of not using that? Yes, I can use the keyboard,
but when I'm having like a bunch of conflicts
and things that are tricky and there's a lot
of code, especially with AI, like every PR is
like a million file. So you have to kind of take
your time to go through it. very nice interface
and it works nicely and yeah it works i don't
know like just a very nice workflow if i'm in
vim we have like git here this i think it's like
a fugitive works great and i have git signs obviously
so there are some options but it really depends
what i'm doing and where i'm doing it And why
are you moving away from TMAX? You want to go
more minimal? It's a theme I've been going with,
actually, even with NeoVim. Every now and then
I look at my NeoVim config and try to remove
something. That's how I've been doing this. So
now the next thing for me, I guess, is TMAX.
Am I really using it the way it should be used?
And if so... can i live without it and so i'm
noticing that i actually can live without it
because if i'm working at my job for example
i have like a project or maybe two things open
right and i'm i don't have like 17 different
projects that i need to switch between every
three seconds i don't do that right nobody does
that you usually have like a terminal and like
a two more things and that's pretty much it so
i don't need that right and with ghosty i can
open this actually and say like split down And
there you go. Right? And if I... Actually, I
can just do it this way. And if I want to, like,
you know, I can do all the things here. I don't
really need to do anything more than that. And
I can also have, like, a shortcut for that. Right?
I can split. And usually, it ends up being just
a split. Like, that's all the thing I'm doing.
And there's not, like, a million projects. But
if I do need to jump to a different thing completely,
I can just use, like, Zoxide. Like, Z, whatever.
by config, for example. That's how I switch quickly.
I don't have a session per project and a session
per whatever. I kind of stopped doing that. I
don't know if this is good for me or bad for
the workflow, but it's the same, really. And
one thing as well, like Tmux is a thing that
runs in the background. And I read this somewhere.
I don't know if it's true or false, but... Like
with Ghosty, for example, Ghosty does have like,
there's some like benefits of not having a layer
on top of your terminal to do things, whether
it's like font rendering or whether it's color
rendering or general performance. I think like
using the thing without Tmux is probably better.
Yeah, it feels snappier as well. Yeah. I'm not
like religious about it. It's like, no, never.
Or like the kiddie guy who basically... hate
tmux or i don't have a problem with it i think
it's super super great i love tmux but i'm experimenting
i guess see if i can live without it and so far
it seems like i can and maybe i'll just stop
using it um if i need tabs i can open tabs right
and you can it's not like a it's not like a sin
right oh my gosh you open the tab how dare you
how dare you yeah you can customize how it looks
as well and yeah so for tmux i have this something
that I created, and I added this to it. I have
a plugin. I don't know if you can see my screen
here. Yeah, I see your browser right now. Oh,
perfect. So I wanted to show this, actually,
just for people who keep asking me about it.
I have a Tmux thing here. This. So I created
the plugin based on some other one, which is
this one, to give credit to the person. This
guy here, or whoever this person created, this
Tmux talk unite. um thing so i used that as a
base for whatever i created and essentially it
ends up being a theme so right now this is what
i have it's like a more for like a t -max for
like a groove box thing if you use groove box
this is how it looks like the same colors and
whatever and i added some functionalities to
add like things like that it shows me the branch
it shows me um status yeah that's the idea oh
okay but That's T -Max. I thought it was Lua
Line. So it's T -Max. So the plugin you created
gives you that Lua Line look at the bottom. Yeah,
that's the point. This is what I see with it.
I think it just takes a couple lines. I have
this one. Then I have these options. So essentially,
I can add light or dark. And I can add. If I
want to show the path, I could show the full
path if I want to. Then, anyways, yeah, you can
just see the docs. It shows you what you can
do with it. Essentially, just kind of a copy
of that Tokyo Night one with a couple of features.
Okay. With Vim, I mean, there's a lot to talk
about with Vim, but maybe... Use the snacks.
That's snacks, right? Yeah. Yeah. There's not
a lot of things going on here, and I'm trying
to eliminate more and more, actually. So AI,
I actually recently started using, what is it?
This. Super Maven. Okay, I haven't tried it.
It's the autocomplete, right? Yeah, I think it's
nice. most of the ai heavy lifting is being done
with open code anyways but i wanted like something
that doesn't does like a co -pilot thing uh for
colors blink is for my um autocomplete and i
have this is the my the theme that i used i always
use but i also have another version that i created
actually oh by the way i did create this one
as well so i can change them here to show you
color scheme forest night i did create this the
other day it's on my github also i have a cappuccino
fork this one people like this one for some reason
um yeah but this is like the one i use the most
group box and a groove box material yeah for
formatting or whatever conform dap just up extra
is where i put all the things that i just don't
want to know where to put them just throw things
here and try things out. Things have never changed.
The idea is most of my configuration has been
the same for years now. I just never touch it.
I play with themes, but that's as far as it goes.
These are the most common ones. This one I pretty
much rarely use these days. This one helps you
with tabs, I guess, or the buffer type. Lazy
Dev. Flash. I mean, I'm really not using most
of these things. That's the irony of it. Like
this one here, I'm not using it that much anymore.
Persistence is something I like a lot. It helps
me exit and come back to the same spot quickly.
Many of them, I toggled this a couple days ago,
but I had like the default one for some time
where it's like very basic. And I was like, oh,
let's play with this one. so i switched these
basic things every now and then just for visual
change but i usually rarely change anything um
this is back from the kitty days show key is
pretty cool actually this is uh either ut so
i can show the key things here um yeah or get
i got the two most used ones get signs and huge
dev yeah um I rarely use this again for this.
It's here if I ever want to use it, but it's
not like I'm actively using those. Laravel. These
are some plugins I developed, actually. Oh, really?
And I created that one for PHP refactoring and
simple markdown. I can show them, I guess. It's
here. Not to plug my own work, but I think it's
nice. I have this one. yeah this one this one
so this is like to have um nice experience for
yeah support for these own stuff yep so uh this
is a laravel plugin it has pretty much a ton
of things for level like just a lot of stuff
essentially um it's a pretty big one um Yeah,
it's kind of being, there's not like a very extensive
Laravel support. There's another plugin that
is amazing, but I'm using this because I think,
I mean, I've been leading a team who's developing
with this. One moment, please. Yeah, and so I
built this specifically to use it. I made it
for me essentially and it ended up being like
a useful thing. There's a lot of features in
it. Very expensive. Which LSP do you use for
PHP? Why so serious? IntelliSense. Okay. Seems
to be the best. Okay. I tried to set that up
and I was, I had a little bit of pain because
I took a PHP course in university and I was like,
okay. There's Intellifence or PHP actor. And
I was like, nah, I couldn't do it. I don't know
what I ended up using in the long run. But you
have a video about that, right? I did make a
video about it. I think both are great. Intellifence
is a paid one. I had better experience with it.
Yeah, it's not too hard to use, actually. You
just need to put the license key in the right
spot and make sure to read it whenever you...
Try to use LSP. So you have to have a license
key. So if you don't have a license key, it doesn't
work then? You could. You could use it without
that. This is what I did to make it work. So
I read the license key manually and then pass
it in. That's all I had to do. And now it works.
Okay. So yeah, that's the Laravel plugin. I also
have this one. This is... A very simple one.
Essentially, it creates a file dependent on whatever
file type you have. So if you're creating a new
Go file, you create a file that is like Go file
with the right package name. Does that make sense?
For example, if you write PHP, it creates a PHP
file with this open question mark thing, whatever.
It's like in Go land or the JetBrains stuff.
If you create a new file, you can create a file
with a type. right away so it puts the right
name space for you this is the thing that this
is what it does php refactoring it does all these
things um okay okay and extract var it's like
a thing that exists in jet brains like the php
storm this is identical to that but in inside
of neovip oh extract classes interfaces whatever
just a refactoring tool because i used to use
just php storm for the longest time and i wanted
something similar so i built it Interesting.
Okay. And your team uses these tools, right?
It's mostly me. My team uses Cursor. I like to
use this, so I build it. Okay. And then this
is a basic note -taking thing. Just for the stuff
that I just don't know where to put them, so
I put them here. It's a folder that renders things
for me. And you can pin notes. You can sort them
as like markdown. They sync with GitHub. So you
can pull them anywhere. And it doesn't have any
dependencies. So it's pretty easy. So what is
it then? So I didn't understand this one. What
is this one for? It's a note -taking tool for
Neovim. But it's very basic. Like a distro? No,
no, no. This is just a plugin. okay okay there's
nothing about like it's just a plug -in you install
a new one okay it creates a way to open up your
notes quickly in a shortcut and then it renders
them it's like this markdown rendering thing
but it's more like specific for notes so you
can decide where you want to put your notes and
quickly open them in new room okay got it okay
again it's very specific for my workflow i guess
okay makes sense okay now and How has it been
maintaining these projects? I keep everything
in my .files. And the excuse is I don't want
to deal with PRs. I don't want to review anything.
And I just put a note, hey, don't submit PRs.
I'm not going to review them. I'm not going to
accept them. I'm just going to close them because
I don't want to deal with that. How has it been
for you? I never put my stuff online when it
comes to .files. I have two different sets of
.files and everybody's like, oh, where's your
.files? I want to use those. I'm like, I don't
want to share them. They're messy. I don't care
too much about them. This is for my personal
one. I had this for a million years and I'm like,
I don't really care too much about it. And this
one is on my dev machine, like the work machine.
So I have two .files and each one does different
things. maybe maybe they're good maybe they're
bad i don't know like if they are perfect but
yeah i just never put them public i just keep
them private oh really i didn't know that okay
yeah i have my new of them like that and i have
like a gist or gist whatever you call it tmux
config and whatever and that's how it ends for
me i don't really like um yeah i don't make them
public i just don't want to maintain that stuff
yeah and what about yeah I was straight up in
the read me. It's like, I'm not going to review
anything, so just don't submit it. And I have
them public. But what about the other projects
that you do have public? Have you had those ones?
Yeah, I try to look at them every couple of weeks.
I'm not like dying to fix anything. Again, like,
you know, if you're really upset because something
is not working, maybe you should fix it. It's
open source, like you fix it. And some people
have done that, which is awesome. But, you know,
it's not like i have a lot of time and if i do
i'll fix stuff if i don't then i don't you know
if you're too upset with some features maybe
contribute to it and help me fix it i did have
a lifting in a way like to build something and
it works for me but if your specific use case
like is different then maybe you should kind
of help with that but but again like i'm not
like unfortunately like i'm not like crazy active
with open source stuff i mean i have a couple
things like that and mostly for my own work um
like it's not my full -time thing i don't have
enough time unfortunately to be more active with
open source and with ai these days it's like
i don't know how meaningful this will look like
because anybody can build anything with ai Yeah.
And then you get a PR with a thousand lines added
and you know it was just AI, the one that generated
it. So it feels like not really useful because
yes, you added something, but I can do the same
thing with cloud and same thing. Like I don't
need this. And so, yeah, it's just, I guess it's
not like as useful as it used to be. Because
before AI, we needed support. We needed people
to kind of contribute different things and do
stuff for us. But nowadays, it's like you just
ask Cloud to build something and it builds it
for you. And then you iterate a couple of times
and then you're good. So it's not the same again.
One thing I wanted to mention, actually, I have
this kind of newsletter that I've been running
for some time. So I basically ask people to share
about their workflows and their .files, their...
their setup um what they use and how they use
it and their vim config oh i see that guy ian
simmons there that is empty but he's cheap and
he doesn't pay for the membership in youtube
so that's why he's not commenting right now because
he's cheap but i know that guy he's in discord
awesome yeah That's the idea. I ask them, share
about yourself. Tell me what you like to do.
Share whatever you want people to know about
you, essentially. Similar to what you're doing
now, actually. Share your new Vim setup and what
you use, some screenshots, cool stuff like that.
Some tools you like to use, your .files, your
books, some fun books you read. And just share
whatever you want. I don't really make money
out of this. I just like what people use and
I want to learn from them. And so I asked them,
do you want to share your stuff? And they do.
And then I post it here. And how do you do it?
They send you like a markdown file or what? They
send me an email with a question. I have like
about here where I kind of ask them to answer
these questions and send it to my email. And
that's it. And just you send it to my email and
I'll take it. I'll read it, format it and kind
of change the tonality, I guess, to make it like
a third person. And then. published it's very
basic there's nothing like magical about this
just by email and i'll share it here and this
is not paid obviously people get upset sometimes
like why do you share this and it's paid and
whatever i'm like it's not paid but i used this
sub stack because it was free and i can make
it like this and i didn't want to create like
an email thing service i use this so some people
pay for it which is cool like i guess go to dashboard
see like i have two people who pay for this but
it's not like i asked them to pay for this it's
just like you just want to support it so this
is a free thing you don't have to put in your
email or do anything you can just open it and
see it i don't know how substack if substack
forces you to open anything but essentially you
can just open them without subscribing and read
them and the whole idea is that you find some
nice tools here like you go to some different
people here and oh you find you find tips right
yeah you find like interesting tools like something
you've never heard before like this one um some
nice themes some nice ideas and you pick them
up that's the whole idea like pick up new new
ideas that's the whole heart behind this uh thought
files and and then allow people to like um share
something interesting about them as well like
i have like i don't know 1500 people on this
which is nice so you can get some a little bit
of exposure if you want to but there's nothing
in it and just like people sharing interesting
things i guess yeah sharing pretty interesting
i thought that dot files thing where your dot
files but now i understand what it is no no it's
a newsletter for other people's dot files and
workflows and tools and whatever they use and
whatever they do as well not just dot files oh
that's pretty cool actually why so serious the
guy in the chat says that he's gonna send his
i think yeah man that would be awesome just uh
either here go to about and my email is here
or if you're in my discord you can simply just
chat with me there i'm not like like people sometimes
send it sometimes they don't or like there's
not a lot of people um as you see there's like
47 uh 43 different posts but i'm not like trying
to post something every week whenever somebody
reach out i want to share it i'll share it but
that's like how how much i'm active with this
i used to try to follow on people like hey ask
people to do it but i rarely do it these days
i just when somebody posts uh share it with me
i post it and then i'll tell them in the post
like hey if you want to share yours here's how
you can find me Again, it's coming from the same
mindset of why I do YouTube. I like this. I'll
talk about it. I don't like it. I don't talk
about it. So that's how far it goes. When it
comes to my YouTube, same thing as well. If I
like what I'm doing, I'll probably make something
about it. If I don't, I don't really care. If
you see my consistency here, it's kind of all
over the place. In the last two months, I've
been trying to be kind of consistent. Every two
weeks, I'll post something. But if you go back
a bit, it's just seven months and six months
and then four months and then just, Inconsistent,
I guess. That's the best thing I can say. Just
whatever I'm really interested in at the moment,
Matt. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. What window
manager do you use on macOS or you don't use
a window manager at all? I use Raycast for everything.
I pretty much just use Raycast to jump around.
I have like, I don't know if I can show this
here. Let me see if I can move it to the screen.
i'll switch to our screen you don't have anything
sensitive there right yeah no no nothing so here's
my raycast if i do window here um yeah this i
have a couple things i used here for if i want
to center something i use hyper c okay i wanna
um how many how much thought from the screen
i can just use like usually these ones there's
nothing fancy just move things around um and
then for toggling apps i have them like for example
i'm using chrome nowadays so i have like hyper
b using my terminal like ghosty hyper t so i
don't need to do anything fancy i can just press
hyper and whatever the shortcut is so switching
like um terminal back to browser it's just a
press of a button for me i don't need anything
special Because again, I'm not using a million
things. There's a browser, there's a terminal,
there's sometimes an editor. But that's how far
it goes. So I found that to be more than enough
for me. I can do things like that and then open
the terminal and do things like that. You could
do that, right? It's not like I need more. And
if I do it like this, for example, and then I
can go to my browser here and then... This way,
I guess. And when you open an application, does
it open it in that full screen space by default?
Or how does that work? Or do you have to open
it and then make it full screen? I think it opens
in whatever thing was last time I closed. Oh,
okay. So I usually have like hyper F to kind
of go full screen. Full screen, okay. Makes sense.
And then hyper something to go back here. Arrows.
But, like, things are not changing. That's the
thing that I find very weird for me. Like, I
like how, like, I think the HH built, like, a
fantastic Linux thing that has, like, a window
manager or whatever. This is awesome. But, like,
for my workflow, for me personally... I don't
have a lot of things happening on the screen.
Like I have a couple apps, I just move around
with them and that's it. Like things are not
changing too much in front of my eyes, right?
Like either I'm here or here or in a chatting
thing and that's it. So while it's awesome to
open up new terminals like that and then do something
with this and then back to that, I don't have
a lot of things changing personally for me, so
it doesn't matter. If I find like a reason to
make this more fancy, I could, but there's no
value in it for me. I know it's pretty cool to
like open a new thing and then that takes a specific
size of the screen or whatever. But I never use
something small. Like if this is here, like tiny
and like here, however that looks like. Like
I don't want this. It's too small. Yeah, that
makes sense. And so what I do is like open a
split, for example. I can do this and like split.
and then whatever i want right that's how i want
to use it i don't want to open a new thing and
when it comes to the browser honestly the less
things open the better i usually don't keep tabs
open if i'm done i just close it and i don't
regret it right like i don't care it's not just
being careless about it it's more about the less
things you have to track the less more space
in your brain think so i don't want to have a
lot of things open anyways yeah it gets complicated
eventually When you have a lot of key maps and
all that stuff, it is flexible, but it gets complicated
and tricky as well. Now, why? I switched back
to our screen. Did you want to show something
else on your screen? No, that's all of it, I
guess. Okay. Why are you on macOS and what are
your thoughts on Linux and have you considered
switching to Linux? I've been on Mac since forever,
since the start of my career almost. I did use
Linux for a couple of years. I liked it. The
last Linux I used was Ubuntu 10 .04. A very long
time ago. I don't remember what the desktop was
called. Before GNOME, I guess. But that was the
last time I used Linux actively as a desktop
thing. I don't have a preference. I just want
Unix. That's what we want. I want the Unix thing.
But because I also do some music stuff on the
side, I want to have Logic. Oh, Logic Pro is
amazing, man. And there is some open source tools,
but they're not close to Logic, at least from
what I try to do. So it's really just because
of the practicalities. It works, it has good
battery, the screen is nice, the machine itself
is pretty nice. Mac OS, I mean... i don't use
a lot of mac os specific tools i just you want
to use the unix side of stuff and it seems to
be more stable like things don't break usually
yeah it works if somebody creates a hardware
that looks like the mac one and it's like super
good then battery is very good and i know the
framework does stuff but nothing get close to
the mac hardware in terms of how good it is and
i use like the iphone so it's a very good It's
very compatible, I guess, with Mac. Everything
fits together nicely. There's no reason, really.
I think for the day -to -day work, you can use
anything as long as you have a terminal that
works, like Unix, Linux, or Mac, same. When it
comes to doing anything more than that, it becomes
more a preference. If you like to share your
photos on your phone and iPad and your wife and
your computer, then maybe this works nicely because
they have this... everybody uses apple essentially
that's kind of why i'm using it not because i
wanted it like it works with everything and i
have apple tv and apple whatever and like oh
that's a good ecosystem they managed to get me
hooked right yeah and so i use it uh i don't
really have like a specific preference like I
know like now the hype is all the DHH stuff and
it's... Amarji. Yeah, it's amazing what this
guy did, honestly. It's just mind -blowing. And
everybody's excited about it. But like, do I
really need it? Like, I don't think I really
need it. I have a workflow that works and I don't
want to change it. I'm a huge fan of Taylor Otwell,
like the guy who built Laravel. And if you see
him, how he does the work, like he just doesn't
change stuff. I've been following Laravel since
like... version three point something like very
long time ago and this guy has been doing the
same stuff since then still using sublime text
still using iterm or ghost you know maybe now
using the same stuff and everything works and
that's what i aim for like just it works don't
change it it's great man don't touch it just
don't change things as long as they work that's
how i try to kind of do things uh free up the
space from like tooling and more to like the
work itself doing Yeah, because I love tools.
I make videos about them. But the problem is,
it's very time -consuming. I guess the urgency
for time is the thing that I care about. I don't
have a lot of time, so what can I do to make
this as efficient as possible and move on from
there? Yeah. That's kind of the reason for the
whole thing. Mac works, and Mac lasts for a long
time. And also, when you sell them, they get
you back some good money. If you get a Linux
machine and you sell it 10 years from now, it's
going to sell for nothing. If I'm going to sell
my Mac now, it can get me enough money back to
get another one. That's a good value, essentially.
That's the reason. But also, the M machine, the
MCPU, actually, is way better than everything
else. Yes, you can get a hyper -threading thing,
whatever, those magical things. But for something
that tiny, you can put an iMac mini or something
that is that powerful, it's kind of nuts these
days. there is like the amd one the ai version
of it whatever has been very good oh the um snapdragon
uh no the there's like an amd ai 365 or something
i know i think the framework desktop been using
it as well this has been very interesting i've
been actually like really considering one just
to see how it feels for ai stuff like local ai
models because it's less expensive than like
buying a mac studio for that but i guess to answer
your question original question there's really
no major reason other than when i started this
was the trend and this was like when everybody's
using so i jumped on it and i've been using it
since i never like i rarely play games so i don't
care about windows um yeah and so i have like
a ps5 when i play a game but i don't really like
need windows for anything and i don't need linux
for anything more than what i do on mac that's
kind of where it landed and what do you think
about windows do you like the operating system
i think it's a toy it's that's pointless If you
want to play video games, yes. I think you can
play Linux now as well, so that's even better.
Windows is just taking all your data and doing
stuff with it. Ads and whatever. If you have
appropriate software you need for your Windows,
there's some companies that require you to install
stuff. Or if you develop Windows applications.
But other than that, what's the point? It's becoming
this AI thing that they just eat all your data
and use it for whatever they want. Yeah, I don't
see a value of using Windows. If the same thing
can run on Linux, use Linux. If you're going
to play video games and it doesn't run on Linux,
then maybe Windows. There is no value in it.
It's just pointless, really. Vim doesn't work
there. Everything is a kind of... Everything
is a patch. Everything is a hack. Nothing works.
So, yeah, it's a waste of energy. Yeah. And have
you thought about Emacs? Have you ever used Emacs
or considered it? I've tried it for like one
day and I realized I need to learn a lot of things.
I dropped it. I think it's interesting. I don't
have like an opinion about it because I never
really used it. I've seen people using it and
it's kind of pretty cool. But I think like I'm
not against GUIs. I'm not like saying if you
use an app, a GUI, I'm like, you're a terrible
person. You should be in prison or something.
No, it's just a tool, right? Like Emacs is trying
to put everything back in the terminal and that's
nice for some people, but I don't have a problem
with using tools that are separate than the terminal.
Because people, I think, want to use the terminal
because it's snappy and everything isn't there
and super fast or whatever. But I just showed
you, I can open up the browser in a press of
a button. And I can also actually, another thing
I want to show you. I'm trying to share my other
screen. Let me switch to it. Let me know if you're
ready. Yeah, but let me see if I can show this
guy here. You let me know. Yep, I'm actually
going to move this to the here. There you go.
Can you see my raycast? Yep, I see it. So I have
something here where if I press like hyper O,
I can switch between the browser tabs. Hold on.
If I press hyper. I don't see. Oh, I think it's
on the other. I'll put it back here. So Hyper
O on my keyboard allows me to switch between
the tabs. Okay? And if I press Hyper K, I have
to move it back here as well, unfortunately.
It shows me all the open apps. So technically,
I can switch. everything in my screen with just
a shortcut or a search thing with Raycast. So
I'm not far from reaching any app I want at any
moment. Hold on. Oh, how did you do that? How
did you configure that in Raycast? I think there's
a tool for that. There's like a plugin. Plugin
in Raycast. Yeah. And the Hyper -K is built -in
in Raycast. You can set the shortcut for it.
That's how I did it. It just allows me to get
to the thing I want to get to in so many different
ways. So with Raycast, I can search if I have
a lot of things open, but also usually I just
have them as a shortcut. Like hyper B, I'm in
the browser. Hyper T, I'm in the terminal. Hyper
whatever, I'm there, right? So there's no need
to do anything fancy for that. It's just a shortcut.
This has been more than enough. So there's no
need to do more than that, honestly. And there's
window stuff. Like if on a full screen, it's
still like hyper F. If on a half screen, hyper
arrow, left or right. It's such a shortcut. And
I don't need to code it. I know you can use those
fancy window managers with code and just make
some crazy stuff for them. I haven't found the
reason for this just yet. And that's why with
Raycast, I'm able to do the majority of these
things without really... special tool i'm interested
in in this hyper o thing so it shows you all
of the tabs that you have open in all of your
different browser instances no just with i only
use chrome these days i used to use arc move
to chrome because arc is not maintained yeah
so i use uh it's like a chrome plugin actually
that allows you to search tabs so you can download
it and just set it to hyper whatever or any shortcut
you want okay um let me just try to show you
if So if I open up this here, I think you can
open up this. There you go. So this is like an
extension. And there's a lot of things you can
do with it. I only cared about this one. Oh.
Right. So I assigned it to Hyper -O. And there's
a reason, by the way, like Hyper -O and then
Hyper -K, right? The reason is if I open up Neovim
and open up any file, if I press Leader -O, i'm
searching buffers if i'm leader p i'm searching
files okay like uh it's like similar right like
leader something yeah it's the same everywhere
like both like my os like searching tabs in the
browser or search session apps in my mac or searching
files and new of them or searching things here
it's all the same look and feel a pop -up that
allows you to search for whatever you want that's
the whole idea so that's why it's all looks this
way it's all the same that's the whole point
less things to think about right it's like a
way to search for something so yes you can have
more fancier stuff but for me it's like how do
i get to the thing as fast as possible and that
was it just find a way to search for the thing
and it worked um i tried to just see if I can
do the thing with the tools that I have before
I try to get a plugin. A friend of mine, he built,
I think, Session X or Session something for Tmux.
Oh, Omer. Omer, right? Yeah, Omer. Yeah, he did
this one and another friend who built another
thing for Tmux as well in Raycast. Oh, Josh Medesky.
Yeah. The other one. Both of them did some fantastic
tools. I just don't want to use another tool.
That's the idea. Like, can I just build a script,
write a script that does the thing? And that's
kind of how I push this stuff. Yeah. I tried
Sesh by Medesky. It's a wonderful plugin, but
I'm on the same boat. It's another tool that
someone else has to maintain. What happens if
Medesky says, you know what, fuck Sesh, I'm not
going to maintain it anymore. I just have a script.
The one that Primogen created, the Teamwork Sessionizer,
that's the one that I use to switch sessions.
Yeah. I mean, I'm even trying to stop using Tmux
at this stage. I'm trying to find plugins to
remove from NeoVim. I feel like it's the age,
maybe. I'm just trying to get rid of stuff. Even
things I have in my house, I'm just trying to
sell them. This is why I mentioned Facebook Marketplace.
I'm on this thing where I'm trying to sell everything.
All the stuff that I don't use for more than
every couple months, once, I'm like, yeah, I'm
selling this crap. And I just sell it. And what
about your cables? The box of cables that we
all have there, do you throw them away too? I
only have a bunch. Either I throw them away or
I don't want them. I just have cables that I'm
using. You can't get enough cables, unfortunately.
They go bad and you just have to have one that
works. You buy a couple that are high quality,
but then you just, Megami or whatever the name
is of that brand, you just buy a good brand and
then it lasts you for years and you just get
rid of the other crap. stick with the pedals
i used to have like a million ones i sold them
all and i have like a neural dsp that the quad
cortex and that's the only one uh i am planning
to get like the line six helix the new one it's
a splurge it's a lot of money but i'm like uh
you know you treat yourself once a year i guess
on your birthday or something you just buy something
very expensive the new one so it's like two thousand
bucks i had line six pedal boards i had stadium
yeah but for for a guitar i had to well i had
like three line six pedal boards back in the
day now i move to analog pedals i have have you
have you seen this one hold on look at this beauty
i like how this sounds it's a wampler ethereal
it sounds yeah sounds beautiful man I stopped
being interested in analog stuff versus digital
stuff for some reason. Because like the neural
DSP is so advanced. And for somebody who plays
in my office, like not playing on stage. And
by the way, like if you put both on a stage and
like, let's say a huge concert, nobody will have
any like understanding what's the difference.
Yeah. We just are, we're too nerdy. It's like,
this color is bad and this color is better and
this plugin is bad and this color, this is good.
It's all the same because nobody can make it.
Nobody can get it. I can put an actual pedal
versus another one that is digital and nobody
can tell the difference. Yeah, that is correct.
It's just us who are super nerdy, who have a
headphone for $10 ,000. We can hear that tiny
frequency change. Like, yep, that's bad. That's
not the real amp. You can't even tell, man. If
they're drunk, if it's a death metal show, they're
going to be drunk. So there's like, whatever.
There's no point of even telling. And for somebody
like, obviously I'm not like playing live shows.
I'm just playing in my office once a year. I
don't really care. So I use the Neural DSP that
when you see on the left here, and it has the
best sounds you can find for any amp you want,
modeling, whatever. I hadn't heard about this
one. So it's like a regular pedal board. It has
amps, microphones. Essentially it's a computer.
yeah it's a computer essentially it's it's a
pedal like line six but it has the best algorithm
to capture amps and pedals the closest possible
you can get to now the line six helix the new
one they're about to release in a couple months
it might actually be better but the quad cortex
has like the best capturing capability now which
i never captured you can download sounds that
other people captured and have great oh okay
okay and does it also include effects like uh
oh yeah distortion it has also like a effect
capturing that pedal you showed me i can capture
it and now have it inside of that oh and that's
sick so how much is it is it too expensive when
when it was out i think it was like 1800 Yep,
1800. I bought it, it was actually one of the
first 100 ones. This is why I liked it. It was
released on NAMM like a couple of years ago and
I pre -ordered it. So the CEO sent me a paper
signed by him, like you were the first 100 people.
So I got like a certificate saying, this is the
first 100. Like, hell yeah, it's cool. And you
know, I pretty much like underuse it. But it's
like a freaking amazing machine, but I put like
an amp. with like one pedal versus like those
who put like routing and all that stuff i just
use like a clean amp for my guitar and then because
my ears yeah just something i just want to hear
my guitar essentially but i'm definitely not
using it the way it should be used but i guess
like you know once a year you splurge and you
just do stuff that you do it because you like
yourself that's why that's why i bought it really
i just like oh i like me enough to buy me something
i like It's the same reason why I'm going to
get the Helix actually, not because I need it,
because I'm spoiling myself. Like here, treat
yourself. You worked hard this year, go spend
$2 ,000 on something you're going to use once
a month. Man, I have a pedal board. I have it
stored in a box. I have like five, no, like six
analog pedals, but it's more complicated because
you need to have a good power supply. You need
to connect them in. That's why I don't like that.
You need to wire them and you need to put them
in, take them out. With guitars, you have to
have the least friction. It's like code. You
want to be able to pick up the guitar as fast
as possible and play something without all the
hassle. And this is why I'm like, just plug this
in, press the power button and start playing.
I don't want to do more. Now, I had this one.
before let me show let me show this to you hold
on but it didn't sound as good as analog pedals
it sounded digital but it was old let me tell
you this one m what was this called um no no
not this one hold on i'm gonna tell you which
one right now it was m something was it this
one yeah the original ones the older ones yeah
the older one it was it was that this one is
what This one, Pod XT Live, line six. Pod XT
Live. But back then, this is how far we could
go with this. It used to sound digital because
it is digital, but the algorithms changed now.
The new ones have better sounds. So yes, it's
not going to be like a real amp, but it's very
close. And on stage, you're usually using monitors
to hear yourself, not just amps. you're capturing
the amps and putting them on the other speakers
so it's not like you're getting the feeling of
the amp anyways and if you're playing at home
you can just get a practice amp like a small
one like a yamaha or whatever that should be
enough to kind of move you right you want the
air to move to feel something yeah you're playing
bass or whatever but realistically speaking if
you live in a city or not in anywhere actually
like you can't play loud unless you're in a studio
yeah and so for cases like us like i play here
i can't be like playing loud i'm using a hs5
here with like a pedal and that's it um it's
enough it's good enough for what i try to do
um yeah i see a lot of youtubers and i get very
jealous of all the amps they have but like realistically
speaking you're never going to use them no yeah
that's the point yeah 99 of all the people who
play music they can get along with like a line
six helix the small one and then do all the stuff
they want to do you don't need 700 pedals and
unless you're like just a collector and you probably
won't make like get the difference between all
of them anyways so we just like the fancy stuff
because the youtubers are pushing it to us that's
it that's why you buy them that's why i'm buying
the line six honestly because like oh this looks
super cool i'm gonna buy it not because like
it's actually gonna add any value to my life
it's like it's advertising working on us yeah
i haven't listen to digital pedal boards in so
long but now that you bring it up it makes sense
i guess the algorithms and all of that is better
and they must sound way better so i'll watch
some videos and and we'll see because just connecting
that old thing requires time and effort so i
just don't connect it at all but one of these
i would connect i think if you go to the neural
dsp website let me switch to your to your screen
uh okay i'm not sharing it but i'll show you
oh okay uh yeah i'll share it here neural dsp
uh these are my favorite like plugins vsts for
um for guitars um they have the best quality
it's the same people who created this quad cortex
thing right they have a smaller version as well
okay um they have the best pedal uh like uh effects
and they usually capture sounds from like uh
musicians petrucci for example or whatever slo's
if you like soldano like uh you know and if you
wait for like black friday you can pretty much
buy a lot of them like half price but hold on
hold on the quad cortex you get it you get no
effects you have to buy these no no no it comes
with all the effects you want this is not just
vsts these are like applications you're on your
mac oh okay okay okay okay so if you don't want
plugins for logic pro if you don't want if you
don't want paddles and you don't want like anything
just like plug your thing in your audio interface
like get one of those things and then run it
on your computer it runs both in the daw or independently
okay so you can pretty much like use it to play
music just with an audio interface and you don't
need anything else and it sounds amazing like
if for somebody putting a headphone and like
trying to play something uh and practice maybe
or whatever and you want some good sound this
is way better than you can imagine um a lot of
people using using on like actual records it's
actually fantastic like tim henson is like this
guy is an amazing guitarist and he captured his
sound on this thing and anything he plays he
plays through this one so like it's pretty cool
man like um things changed for us guitarists
yeah we used to play with those old pedals and
now like you can just download a software that
does like things way better than everything we
ever had yeah i'm still back in the old days
but i'll i'll take a look at that and have you
ever thought about nexus um because you see nexus
everywhere i've heard it a friend of mine uh
dreams of code dreams of code yeah he's just
um He loves it, and other people love it as well.
I've never tried it. I never really was interested
enough to try it. I see, you know, like, it's
not going to change anything for me. That's why
my .files are so messy, because, like, I don't
need to change my laptop every day. So there's
no point of replicating this. If you make videos,
maybe, like, in that format, you might need to
spin up a new thing to demo something. But I've
not found a useful reason to do that. maybe i'm
not like advanced enough to do that but i don't
see why i need to use it like convince me sell
me like why i should be using this yeah you'll
spend months configuring it and learning it i
think and that's what for me that's like no i
don't want to do that right now okay i i don't
see the value i mean i'm sure if you need it
you will use it i've not had the reason to need
it yet so i'm not using it that's why i'm like
I haven't jumped on the Linux thing as well like
everybody else because I just don't know. I don't
want to learn a new thing and I don't want to
try a new thing where this thing works. The more
things I have to figure out and learn and try,
the more mental load and I'd rather be doing
something useful. You see, coding and all that
stuff is amazing and I really love it, but I'd
rather be playing guitar or playing a chess game
or something than actually doing this. I don't
want to be doing this. I want to enjoy it for
the time I'm coding it at my job thing. But after
this, I'm like, I want to enjoy a different thing
outside of this. Like touch grass, right? Like
I want to do stuff other than code because, you
know, you're going to code eight hours a day
forever. Do that probably. Like just try some
other stuff. So I want my hobbies to also be
my work. Yeah. So that's why I play chess. That's
why I play music. That's why I do other stuff.
Okay, awesome. Now to wrap it up, is there...
Any final words, anything you want to say, anything
you want to add? No, have fun. Enjoy the stuff
you do. Don't take it too serious. Nothing is
really that serious. Okay. Dave, really appreciate
it, man. Thanks for your time. I'm going to be
editing this video. Oh, before I let you go,
I'm just going to thank the... sponsors well
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became members and personally thank you dave
thank you very much man thanks for sharing all
your knowledge and all the stuff about guitars.
I didn't know. I did watch the guitars in the
background and I was like, man, why, why does
he have so many? And it looks cool. But now I
know. To be fair, it's not so many. It's just
a, I think like a classical and acoustic, like
a steel guitar strings and nylon guitars and
bass and guitar. So it's not like so many, it's
just different things to be fair. Okay, man.
So have a, have a good sunday the rest of it
and thank you until the next time