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