Digging through Nick Nisi’s tool box

KBall interviews Nick Nisi about the Pandora’s box that is his tooling/developer setup. Starting at the lowest layer of the terminal emulator he uses, they move upwards into command line tools, into Tmux (terminals within terminals!), his epic NeoVim configuration, and finally into the tools he uses for notekeeping and productivity.

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Featuring:

• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Nick’s Dotfiles
• Kitty
• WezTerm
• Nerd Fonts
• RipGrep
• fzf
• Zoxide
• tmux
• Neovim
• Lua
• Lazy.nvim
• Telescope.nvim
• Zettelkasten
• Obsidian
• Yabai
• Raycast
• Omnifocus

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's party time, y'all!
(00:45) - The one and only
(01:47) - dotfiles
(02:56) - Homebrew
(05:50) - Nerd Fonts
(07:29) - WezTerm
(10:32) - RipGrep
(12:02) - fzf
(15:24) - Zoxide
(17:15) - Sponsor: Changelog News
(18:38) - tmux
(30:21) - Neovim
(34:16) - Plugins
(42:59) - His beloved TypeScript
(44:16) - Obsidian
(50:44) - Yabai
(53:31) - Raycast
(55:46) - Omnifocus
(58:01) - Closing time
(59:12) - Outro

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